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 leadership team including Manufacturing Materials Quality Maintenance Engineering EHS and Supply Chain leaders.
• Drive organizational effectiveness through coaching talent development succession planning and goal alignment at all leadership levels.
• Oversee hiring employee relations training and development to ensure a skilled engaged and productive workforce.
• Maintain a strong plant-floor presence engaging employees regularly to build trust morale accountability and performance excellence.

Continuous Improvement & Change Leadership

• Lead and sustain a culture of continuous improvement using Lean Manufacturing Six Sigma root cause analysis and structured problem-solving.
• Champion standardization through visual management systems KPI reviews project management discipline and corrective action governance.
• Encourage and support change initiatives by setting high expectations empowering teams and embedding improvements into daily operations.
• Participate directly in continuous improvement projects and cross-functional initiatives.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in engineering business ora relatedfield.
• 10 years of progressive leadership experience in a manufacturing or industrial environment.
• 3 years in a senior plant operations or site leadership role with full P&L or cost-center accountability.
• Experience leading and managing a diverse group of functions including operations/production engineering materials purchasing and distribution maintenance and reliability quality human resources environmental health and safety and plant finance.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Six Sigma Lean optimization and other process improvement processes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams in a complex environment drive performance meet goals and drive continuous improvement
• Strong problem solving negotiating and decision-making skills with a proven ability to manage complex situations
• Strong communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs (Word Excel and Outlook)
• Ability and willingness to work core hours to support the needs of different shifts
• Must be able to successfully complete and pass a background check employment verification and drug screening
• Positive and Verifiable Work History
• Must follow safety guidelines and wear applicable safety equipment e.g. safety glasses side shields approved safety shoes and other PPE as needed

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Occasionally push pull carry and lift 20 - 50lbs
• Frequent walking stretching bending stooping twisting reaching grasping and repetitive movements
• Must be able to communicate hear read write and comprehend in English
• Must be able to work in a non-temperature-controlledenvironment

MENTAL DEMANDS:

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Think analytically
• Make decisions
• Develop options and implement solutions
• Work with a team
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance (consistent with ADA and/or FMLA)
• Attention to detail
• Communicate effectively
• Multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Work with a Sense of Urgency

AHF PRODUCTS:

AHF Products provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

AHF Products is a leading hard surface flooring manufacturer in the USA with a family of trusted brands serving the residential and commercial hardwood tile and vinyl flooring markets. With decades of experience in award-winning flooring design product development manufacturing and service we create quality flooring to last for generations through inspiring designs innovation and a deep commitment to outstanding customer service. Our residential flooring brands include Bruce Armstrong Flooring Hartco Robbins LM Flooring Capella HomerWood Hearthwood Raintree Autograph Emily Morrow Home tmbr Crossville and Crossville Studios. Our commercial brands include Bruce Contract Hartco Contract AHF Contract Armstrong Flooring Parterre Crossville and Crossville Studios. Headquartered in Mountville Pennsylvania with manufacturing operations across the United States and in Cambodia AHF Products employs over 3000 dedicated team members.

Required Experience:

Manager