At Radius Packaging, our relentless focus on innovation and operational excellence is just one of the reasons our customers enjoy working with us. Our unique company culture, progressive leadership, and dedicated members mean that who we are is just as important as what we do.
For fifty years, we've had fun supplying plastic packaging for diverse consumer and commercial markets. Our members take pride in creating and delivering products they care about, going the extra mile to help our customers and our business succeed. From containers for food, beverage, and personal care products to household and industrial chemicals, Radius Packaging continues to enhance our capabilities as a full-scope packaging provider. Based in New Berlin, Wisconsin, with a second facility in Delavan, we have approximately 260 members.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Plant Manager to lead our New Berlin manufacturing facility. Reporting to the Director of Manufacturing, this leader is responsible for the overall performance of the facility across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People Development, Maintenance, and Continuous Improvement, with accountability for plant P&L performance and operational execution.
We're looking for more than someone who can manage today's production. We want a leader who thinks ahead, prevents problems before they occur, builds strong systems and processes, and ensures improvements are sustained.
The ideal candidate brings a strong engineering and systems-thinking mindset, understands the financial drivers of manufacturing performance, communicates effectively at all levels, and knows how to create accountability while developing and recognizing a high-performing team.
What You'll Do
Lead Plant Performance
- Provide overall leadership for plant operations, including safety, quality, production, maintenance, delivery, cost, food safety, and continuous improvement.
- Establish and manage key performance indicators for safety, quality, delivery, OEE, labor productivity, cost, equipment reliability, and member engagement.
- Maintain a visible, practical, hands-on leadership presence throughout the facility.
- Bring urgency to plant and equipment performance while proactively addressing risks that could affect safety, quality, delivery, cost, or customer commitments.
Build Systems That Prevent Problems
- Build, implement, and sustain prevention-focused systems and processes that improve operational consistency, equipment reliability, product quality, and financial performance.
- Use strong engineering and systems thinking to assess performance and solve complex operational challenges.
- Lead structured root-cause analysis and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented, verified for effectiveness, and sustained.
- Partner with plant leadership to strengthen predictive and preventive maintenance strategies that reduce unplanned downtime and improve equipment reliability.
Own Financial & Operational Results
- Own plant P&L performance, including budgeting, forecasting, cost control, labor utilization, operating expenses, maintenance spending, and capital investment planning.
- Direct plant activities and coordinate priorities across functions to achieve manufacturing and customer objectives in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Manage facilities, capital assets, and equipment utilization while identifying opportunities for repair, replacement, automation, and capital improvement.
Drive Accountability & Continuous Improvement
- Create disciplined action plans with clear owners, due dates, review processes, and escalation through completion.
- Lead Lean, continuous improvement, and 6S efforts and ensure improvements are incorporated into standard work and sustained over time.
- Promote accountability while recognizing individuals and teams who meet commitments, improve performance, and demonstrate strong ownership.
Develop Great People
- Build, lead, and develop a capable, engaged, and high-performing team.
- Lead effective hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, succession planning, and recognition.
- Create alignment across departments and organizational levels through clear, proactive communication.
- Support cross-functional priorities and build strong partnerships throughout the organization.
Champion Safety, Quality & Compliance
- Ensure compliance with established safety, health, quality, GMP, food safety, food quality, Company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
- Foster an environment where safety, quality, accountability, and continuous improvement are part of how work gets done every day.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Manufacturing, Business, or a related field.
- At least 8 years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience, including responsibility for plant operations or multiple operational functions.
- Proven experience leading managers, supervisors, and cross-functional teams in a manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated P&L accountability, including budgeting, forecasting, cost control, capital planning, and financial performance management.
- Strong engineering, technical, and systems-thinking capabilities with demonstrated success identifying, solving, and preventing operational issues.
- Experience leading root-cause analysis and implementing sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and manage operational metrics, action plans, ownership, due dates, and follow-through to completion.
- Proven ability to build, develop, engage, and retain high-performing teams.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create alignment across all levels of an organization.
- Experience applying Lean Manufacturing, continuous improvement, TPM, Six Sigma, or comparable operational excellence methodologies.
The Leader Who Will Thrive Here
You are a leader who doesn't simply react to today's problems. You build systems that prevent tomorrow's.
You combine an engineering mindset with strong business judgment and understand the connection between people, process, equipment reliability, operational metrics, and financial performance. You establish clear expectations, create ownership, follow through on commitments, recognize strong performance, and make sure improvements stick.
Most importantly, you're comfortable being where the work happens. You can move effectively between reviewing plant financial performance, coaching a leader, solving an operational problem, reviewing equipment reliability, and walking the manufacturing floor with the team.
If you are energized by building strong teams, strengthening manufacturing systems, solving complex problems, and creating sustainable operational results, we'd love to hear from you.
