A plant manager's responsibilities include:
Production: Overseeing the production process, including planning, coordinating, and scheduling manufacturing operations
Quality: Ensuring quality standards are met and managing performance metrics
Safety: Ensuring a safe working environment for employees and performing routine equipment safety checks
Cost management: Managing costs and budgets, and investigating ways to reduce costs
Compliance: Ensuring compliance with legal regulations
Team management: Hiring, training, and evaluating employees, and driving team engagement
Communication: Working with other departments, such as sales, procurement, and quality, to ensure customer service and control costs
Documentation: Creating documentation protocols and maintaining records
Data analysis: Collecting and reviewing data to reduce inefficiencies and waste, and creating reports for executives