Director of Plant Operations - Clackamas

Our Vision

A world where no resource is wasted.

Our Mission

To ensure that no resource goes to waste by empowering people to redeem every container easily, efficiently, and effectively.

Our Values

We are loyal, resilient, trustworthy, creative, competent, and engaged.

Summary

The Director of Plant Operations is a senior management, director level, position responsible for OBRC's five processing plants throughout the State of Oregon. The Director provides leadership, support, and strategic vision to Plant managers and supervisors and is responsible for planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, administrating, and controlling all plant activities throughout the organization. This includes ensuring the physical facilities are aesthetically maintained, operative and in safe working order. The Director of Plant Operations is responsible for achieving defined objectives by implementing and maintaining production and maintenance benchmarks all-the-while in compliance with safety requirements. This key leadership position reports directly to OBRC's Chief Operating Officer and works collaboratively with other Director level managers. The ideal candidate will be a strong leader with a proven, successful senior management background.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for production processes in all five state-wide Oregon plants, including but not limited to timely offloading & reloading of all route trailers, efficient processing of materials and inventory management
• Ensure and partner with other departments to adhere to safety, employment, and other regulatory requirements
• Lead production process improvement to provide for continued efficiency
• Monitor and manage budget setting and monthly hands-on management of department specific profit and loss
• Partner with COO to lead strategic planning and equipment design with an emphasis on capital need assessment focusing on processing capacity versus demand
• Manage staffing levels and compensation within budget and efficiency guidelines
• Oversee facilities and equipment maintenance and improvements for all five Oregon plants
• Supports an atmosphere of teamwork and positive team culture
  
  

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree (accredited) or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) with 10 years of relevant work experience
• 5 to 10 years’ plant management experience
• Continuous demonstrated career growth and/or advancement in complexity, difficulty, or level of responsibilities
• Proven successful track record of leadership, including leading people, projects, and processes
  
  

Requirements Skills, Job Knowledge & Abilities

• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, meet specified deadlines, adjust to changing priorities and work independently
• Familiar with OSHA safety requirements
• A current driver's license and acceptable driving history is required
  
  

Supervisory Responsibility

• This position has both direct and indirect reports
  
  

Travel

• Ability to travel in state up to 25% of the time and work a flexible schedule
  
  

Working Conditions/Physical Requirements

This job operates in a professional office environment with frequent visits inside plant/warehouse environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets. While in the plant setting, the employee can be exposed to fumes and airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The noise level in the plant work environment can be loud.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, speak, and hear.