• Oversees all aspects of production and supply and provides leadership to the plant managers across multiple sites. • Formulates and implements manufacturing programs to maintain and improve the competitive position and profitability of the operations. • Oversee the day-to-day operations of manufacturing plants to ensure safety, quality, cost, efficiency and people standards are consistently met. • Promote and encourage the development of people to ensure leadership continuity. • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, positive engagement and empowerment of employees. • Develop and execute on continues improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives with focus on on-time delivery, labor productivity, cost reduction and overall margin improvement. • Drives a strong and healthy safety culture that is compliant with regulations and engages employees to effectively decrease injury rate. • Ensure all locations comply with environmental, health and safety regulations. • Develop, monitor, and report on operating costs relative to budget. • Communicate circumstances that may cause significant budget overruns and identify ways to lesson impact on overall budget. • Partner with Plant Managers and Human Resources to continually evaluate opportunities to enhance and improve teamwork, while developing leaders at all levels. • Identify, monitor, and improve key performance indicators within span of control. • Rapidly communicate to Vice President of Operations any significant challenges or failures that may pose a risk to the business. • Leads the development and implementation of TPM strategies that maximize operational effectiveness/performance while partnering with other divisions to develop actionable plans to improve overall operational effectiveness. • Develop and implement strategies to drive continuous improvement in safety, productivity, product quality, customer service, quality of work life, and lowers manufacturing costs. • Responsible for the financial results of plant operations by preparing annual manufacturing budget, analyzing costs of plant improvements and leading cost improvement initiatives. • Provide leadership to the product planning and materials activities of the locations to ensure that the inventory levels are efficient to maximize cashflow while minimizing cost. • Support Warehouse and Distribution activities to assure 100% on-time delivery of goods to our customers. • Indirect leadership of the Quality Assurance activities of the location to ensure product integrity while maintaining Good Manufacturing Practices and eliminating foreign material. • Ensures site compliance with regulatory agencies. • Verifies GMPs and Safety standards are maintained at all times and take action and/or follow-up when deficiencies are noted. • Provide strategic guidance to the organizations through leadership of strategic planning sessions. • Participates in new product development and planning by researching the cost and ability to produce the product. • Performs all other duties as assigned.