Plant Superintendent

## Company Description To be the leading producer of glass bottles and jars worldwide you need passion, commitment and innovation baked into the very fabric of a business and its people. For more than 120 years, our glass makers have honed their craft—channeling their creativity into more than 1,800 patents held today. When you join O-I you become part of that story. O-I has more than a century of experience crafting pure, sustainable, brand-building glass packaging for many of the world’s best-known food and beverage brands. We are proud to provide high quality glass packaging for beer, wine, spirits, food, non-alcoholic beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. We are dedicated to make what matters to shape a healthier, more sustainable and more exciting world. We transform the industry to make glass more relevant and more accessible to more people. **Why do you want to apply?**The Windsor plant is O-I’s newest and highest performing non-union facility, offering a comprehensive benefits package and competitive pay scale. O-I is a company that is committed to fostering an inclusive environment and offers opportunity for growth and advancement. ## Job Description The **Plant Superintendent** is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating all manufacturing activities to ensure operations perform at optimum productivity, achieving profitability and cost-improvement objectives. This role leads efforts to drive continuous plant improvement, emphasizing customer quality and service while enhancing the plant's competitive financial position. **The Plant Superintendent will:** - Provide direction to the Production Manager and Finished Products Manager on goals and expectations for safety, quality, productivity and costs. Direction must be aligned with the Plant Manager and with the organization - Direct or assist in formulation, initiation, and administration of plant's production and finished products policies and procedures. Ensure regular follow-up and make recommendations relative to changes in policies or procedures. - Empower their team to take bold actions to improve the main metrics of the facility, ensuring there are strong processes implemented and following OI global guidelines (GMF, Quality Risk Audit, etc.). - Promote a safety culture, enforcing procedures and behaviors that create a safe environment. - Responsible for developing their team (salary and hourly), ensuring they get the right skills and behaviors training as well as tools to accomplish the company’s goals. - Build strategy for short and long term goals, providing the right balance needed based on current environment and needs. - Promote continuous improvement, challenging the status quo to always improve metrics, keeping his team in constant movement. - Hold the team accountable, addressing performance issues in clear, direct and transparent conversations - Work with sales personnel and customers to maintain familiarity with customer operations. - Work closely with production planning to ensure that jobs are sequenced properly and that all demands are met. - Act as back-up to the Plant Manager when the PM is out of office **The Plant Superintendent should have:** - Excellent change management and people skills - Strong communication and presentation skills - Ability to interact with all levels, both internal and external to OK - Experience reviewing operations reports, budgets, cost objective performance, product P&L’s, etc. They will drive accountability for forecast accuracies - Experience driving continuous improvement (LSS) - Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with key customers - Ability to manage changing priorities - Experience contributing to the development and maintenance of positive employee relations ## Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Business Administration, or a related field is required. - 10+ years of experience in manufacturing or production operations, wit…