Plant Operations Leader

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Your role at Clorox:

The Operations Manager at the Kingsford Burnside plant is responsible for leading manufacturing operations to deliver safe, high-quality products while achieving performance targets in safety, quality, service, cost, and asset utilization. This role serves as a manufacturing generalist and people leader, accountable for daily execution while also driving longer-term operational excellence and continuous improvement.
As a member of the Plant Leadership Team, the Operations Manager partners closely with Manufacturing, Maintenance, CI, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Quality to build capability, sustain gains, and embed a high-performance, continuous improvement culture.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and coordinate daily manufacturing operations across assigned departments in a 24/7 operating environment, ensuring safety, quality, and production goals are met.

• Scope of leadership responsibility includes retort, briquetting, packaging, shipping and operational excellence departments & teams.

• Ensure strong daily management systems are in place, driving problem identification, root cause analysis, and timely countermeasures.

• Achieve weekly, monthly, and annual performance targets for Safety, OEE, Cost, Quality, Service, Inventory, and Capital effectiveness.

• Serve as the escalation point for operational issues beyond frontline and team-level resolution.

• Foster and maintain a safe working environment, ensuring compliance with OSHA and plant safety standards.

• Lead and sustain Lean, TPM, GME/TRACC practices aligned with plant and business strategies.

• Own and drive loss-elimination, waste reduction, and process improvement initiatives using PDCA and structured problem-solving methodologies.

• Partner with CI resources to deploy improvement strategies, pilot new processes, and standardize best practices.

• Utilize data, metrics, and performance tracking to guide decisions and prioritize improvement opportunities.

• Lead, coach, and develop frontline leaders, team leads, and production teams; build accountability and engagement across shifts.

• Act as leader of the Cell Trio (Frontline Leadership Team) and oversee multiple production teams operating continuous processes.

• Develop bench strength and succession pipelines through coaching, feedback, and performance management.

• Promote a positive, inclusive culture aligned with Clorox values, fostering collaboration and trust across functions.

• Process and approve administrative actions for employees aligned under their leadership.

• Manage departmental costs and resources against budget, identifying opportunities for operational and financial optimization.

• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Quality, and CI to execute plant initiatives and manage change.

• Leverage systems such as SAP/ERP, MES, and performance dashboards to support execution, visibility, and decision-making.

• Ensure consistency and standardization of tools, processes, and best practices across operations.

What we look for:

• Degree and/or 5 + years of manufacturing leadership experience

• Deep knowledge and background in Continuous Improvement (CI) and Total Productive

• Elevates the knowledge of and sensitivity to CI-related topics and concerns into the broader business dialogue with plant leadership

• Focuses on building a comprehensive continuous improvement culture across the plant

• Ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives, implement Lean methodologies, and lead cultural change to enhance operational performance and productivity.

• Focus on coaching, training, and mentoring team members

• Provides feedback that stretches individual development and fosters high-performing teams

• Challenges and supports the team to explore and develop new and innovative approaches to achieve enterprise and plant-level goals

• Experience with manufacturing execution systems (MES) pull systems and data systems integration to drive efficiency

• SAP experience preferred for seamless operational integration

• Stakeholder engagement is preferred, while collaboration with peers is essential to success

• Leverages data analytics for informed decision-making and maintains a strong presence on the plant floor to guide teams and resolve issues in real-time.

• Adopts a servant leadership approach, fostering team collaboration and growth, while applying critical thinking to solve problems and drive transformation within the plant.

#LI-ONSITE

Workplace type:

Onsite

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[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.

–Zone A: $106,700 - $204,900

–Zone B: $97,800 - $187,900

–Zone C: $88,900 - $170,800

All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

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