Plant Manager

Overview

Lead operations. Drive excellence. Shape the future of manufacturing. At RHI Magnesita, we’re looking for a strategic and hands-on Plant Manager to oversee all aspects of our Marelan plant. In this role, you’ll create a safety-first culture, optimize production processes, and deliver operational excellence that meets and exceeds business objectives.

Your Impact

• Manage daily manufacturing operations to achieve Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Value goals
• Build and maintain a safety-first culture, driving EHS improvements and compliance
• Ensure environmental and regulatory standards are met
• Drive efficiency and continuous improvement initiatives that add value for customers and expand margins
• Develop operational plans aligned with corporate KPIs and strategic objectives
• Collaborate with procurement, supply chain, and cross-functional teams to meet cost, quality, and delivery targets
• Coach and mentor team members to strengthen leadership and technical capabilities
• Lead Lean and Operational Excellence initiatives across the site
• Plan and deliver capital projects to improve plant performance
• Monitor key performance metrics and lead daily production meetings and Gemba walks
• Ensure compliance with quality standards and drive improvements to reduce cost of quality
• Oversee predictive and preventive maintenance programs to maximize equipment reliability

What You Bring

Why Leaders Choose Us

What We Offer

Compensation

About RHI Magnesita

RHI Magnesita is the leading global supplier of high-grade refractory products, systems and solutions which are critical for high-temperature processes in a wide range of industries. Serving customers around the world, RHI Magnesita has more than 20,000 employees in 65 main production sites (including raw material sites), 12 recycling facilities and more than 70 sales offices.

RHI Magnesita’s team in North America helps build refractory products that solve the most extreme manufacturing challenges. From advanced lithium-ion batteries for laptops and EVs and specialized glass on smartphones and tablets, to the steel and cement that build the world around us, our high-performance bricks and linings make it possible to melt, bend, shape, and refine these materials at extreme temperatures.

With a vertically integrated value chain, RHI Magnesita has helped forge the materials that build industries and economies for almost 200 years. Refractory products are essential to the production processes for cement, steel, aluminum, and many other industrial producers in the region.

Come get fired up with our North American team!

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