Plant President - Commercial Print

Company Description

RRD is a leading global provider of marketing, packaging, print, and supply chain solutions that elevate engagement across the complete customer journey. The company offers the industry’s most trusted portfolio of creative execution and world-wide business process consulting, with services designed to lower environmental impact. With 22,000 clients, including 93% of the Fortune 100, and 32,000 employees across 28 countries, RRD brings the expertise, execution, and scale designed to transform customer touchpoints into meaningful moments of impact.

Job Description

The Plant President provides leadership in the development and execution of plans and strategies for continually improving people, process, technology, profits and culture. The Plant President is primarily responsible for developing and executing plans to improve local and corporate strategies that drive top and bottom line results, meeting all budget commitments, and continuous improvement initiatives. The President drives the culture of employee engagement & development, coaching, maximizing equipment utilization and performance, driving safety awareness throughout the facility, and partnering with other commercial print facilities, platforms & corporate to drive best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the plant to continually improve employee engagement that will drive safety, quality, productivity and reduction of waste on a consistent and continual basis in each and every process.
• P&L responsibility for assigned locations, including the preparation and successful management of capital and operational budgets.
• Work to improve the performance of employees through consistent and continual leadership, coaching and training programs.
• Establish and maintain a viable succession plan for all critical human resources.
• Provide guidance and direction to department managers regarding the continual improvement of operations for which they have ownership. Ensure department leaders understand and utilize dashboard information to help improve the operation and drive employee engagement.
• Support the local plant and National Sales teams in both strategy and execution of their Business Plans.
• Work with company Sales Representatives from all channels to maintain and acquire new customers for the organization.
• Review and report on manufacturing activities, performances and results. Initiate team action to identify and remove problems with schedules, excessive costs, materials or other factors affecting quality, safety, service or productivity levels inconsistent with plant continual improvement efforts.
• Maintain open communication with plant employees and Corporate Staff to improve safety, quality, productivity and morale.
• Ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations issued by OSHA, EPA, EEO, and other federal, state and local regulatory agencies.
• Provide reports and feedback of plant performance to Leadership as required.
• Make recommendations regarding hires, terminations, cost out activities, promotions, transfers, training and merit increases of Plant Personnel. Motivate staff in support of department objectives and timely and effective schedules to ensure production goals.
• Demonstrate commitment to continual process improvement efforts in order to assure that all customer expectations (internal and external) are exceeded.
• Perform other related duties and business related as required.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Industrial Management, Engineering, Graphic Arts or related field, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of diversified management experience within the printing industry or similar manufacturing industry, with proven success in leading operations teams
• Experience supporting sales teams and driving solutions that exceed customer expectations
• Continuous Improvement/Lean skills/experience highly preferred
• Ability to lead a diverse team of both sales and operations group
• Excellent communication skills to communicate with internal and external teams
• Ability to lead and influence change, and drive employee engagement
• Ability to lead through empathy and inclusion
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong ability to apply continuous improvement throughout the plant
  
  

Additional Information

The national pay range for this role is $129,000 to $265,100 / year. The pay range may be slightly lower or higher based on the geographic location of the hired employee. The actual pay offered may vary based upon, but not limited to: education, skills, experience, proficiency, performance, shift and location. In addition to base salary, depending on the role, the total compensation package. RRD offers benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, disability insurance, 401(k) with match, life insurance and other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages, plus tuition assistance, maternity leave, adoption assistance, and employer/partner discounts.

RRD is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans