Plant Manager

BENEFITS:  Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K  

AHF Products has a great career opportunity for an Plant Manager at our Cartersville Plant in Cartersville, GA.

As a Plant Manager you will have full accountability for leading all aspects of plant operations, driving operational excellence, and delivering outstanding results in safety, quality, cost, delivery, and employee engagement.

This role provides strategic and hands-on leadership across all plant functions, ensuring the effective execution of production plans while building a high-performance culture grounded in continuous improvement, compliance, and accountability.

The Plant Manager serves as a visible leader on the plant floor, aligns cross-functional teams to business objectives, and drives sustainable improvements that support both current operational demands and long-term growth.

JOB DUTIES:  

Qualified individuals must have the ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following duties:

Operational Excellence & Performance


* Lead the plant to meet or exceed production goals for throughput, yield, uptime, quality, cost, and customer service.


* Own plant-level performance for quality, service, and customer satisfaction, ensuring strong alignment across Operations, Planning, Distribution, and Quality.


* Provide strategic leadership for capacity planning, production execution, and future growth readiness.


* Partner with Maintenance and Engineering to ensure equipment reliability, preventative maintenance execution, and long-term asset health.


* Maintain property, plant, and equipment to support safe, efficient, and reliable operations.

Strategy, Financial & Capital Management


* Manage plant operations against established operational and capital budgets, ensuring financial goals are met or exceeded.


* Support and lead plant strategy execution, capital planning, and long-term capability development.


* Collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, New Product Development, Corporate CI, and Engineering to execute new product introductions, process changes, and expansions.


* Monitor and drive performance through KPI dashboards, performance reviews, and structured accountability routines.

Safety, Environmental & Compliance Leadership


* Serve as a visible plant-wide safety leader and role model, championing a zero-injury safety culture across all functions.


* Ensure the creation and maintenance of a safe, environmentally compliant workplace; proactively identify and eliminate systemic safety risks.


* Hold full authority and accountability to stop any unsafe, illegal, or non-compliant work and ensure immediate corrective action or escalation.


* Promote continuous improvement of safety behaviors, risk assessments, and engagement tools.


* Ensure compliance with all environmental, health, safety, and regulatory requirements.

Leadership, Talent & Culture


* Lead, coach, and develop the plant leade...