
Plant Manager - Utica, NY
Utica, NYFull-time$100–175K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Plant Manager translates and implements operating strategies to ensure plant operations meet or exceed organizational goals. The role leads plant management, oversees regulatory compliance, supports process planning and facility change, and partners with corporate management on staffing, improvements, layout, and capital purchases. It also covers budgeting, quality systems, delivery performance, preventive maintenance, and production-related performance indicators.
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Utica, NY, US
Requisition ID: 2262
JOB SUMMARY: The Plant Manager is responsible for translating and implementing operating strategies to ensure that all plant operations meet or exceed organizational goals and objectives.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS (COMPETENCIES):
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Build, lead and manage a plant management team
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Ensure that the facility and personnel are operating in compliance with all applicable state, federal and local regulations
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Lead/support new process planning, design, build, start-up and operation
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Implement and manage change within the facility
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Serve as a strategic partner with corporate management and provide input on long- and short-term staffing levels, plant improvements, design and layout, and capital purchases
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Conduct financial planning and budgeting activities as required or requested
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Create purchase requisitions and approve purchase orders up to level of authority
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Promote LEAN manufacturing principles
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Conduct management review of quality systems, ensure compliance, and drive continuous improvement actions
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Establish lead times for customer orders and on-time delivery performance goals
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Actively participate in problem-solving activities with customers, suppliers and partners
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Advance superior performance across all production-related key performance indicators
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Implement and maintain preventive maintenance programs
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Perform the job functions of Senior Virtual Factory Manager and/or Virtual Factory Manager as needed
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Exercise the authority to stop (shutdown) any manufacturing process/facility machinery that has the potential to threaten employee safety, create an environmental/regulatory hazard or jeopardize product quality
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Perform other duties or special projects as assigned
REQUIREMENTS:
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Bachelor's degree in engineering preferred; 6 years related work experience in manufacturing management required; an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered
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Good oral and written communication skills
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Experience in leadership and management roles
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Project management experience
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Experience with conflict management
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Demonstrated ability to manage change
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Strong interpersonal skills
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Working knowledge of business financial statements
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Computer skills including working knowledge of Microsoft Office
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Provide own source of transportation for any local/day travel, including travel between Indium Corporation facilities
SHIFT/LOCATION:
Monday-Friday/ 8:00am-5:00pm/ 111 Business Park Drive, Utica, NY
WAGE DISCLOSURE:
The salary range indicated in this posting represents the minimum and maximum of the range for the position. The actual range will vary based upon factors including, but not limited to, prior experience, knowledge, skill and education as they relate to the position’s qualifications, and internal equity.
The posted salary range reflects just one component of our total rewards package.
$100,000 - $175,000 annually
Indium Corporation is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to building an innovative workforce. All qualified applicants will be given consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, pregnancy status, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.
How this job compares
Set against the 648 open Manufacturing Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$100–175K/yr
- US median$105–152K/yr344 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $138K, is 6% above the US median midpoint ($130K) — in the middle half of Manufacturing Manager salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 25 open Manufacturing Manager jobs in New York and 648 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Lockheed Martin26 open
- Procter & Gamble20 open
- Northrop Grumman17 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience; Manufacturing Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (528 postings).
- Education
- 217 of the 648 open Manufacturing Manager jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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