Plant Manager

Client of Premier Services & Recruitment

Key Responsibilities of the Role

• Adhere to applicable Egyptian legislation, Our Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (HESQ) policies, and the Golden Rules.
• Ensure that all plant operations comply with HSE, environmental, quality, and lab release requirements.
• Fully respect and enforce stop-work or stop-production decisions issued by HESQ, Quality, or Lab functions.
• Ensure incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions are reported and investigated in line with company requirements.
• Support implementation of corrective and preventive actions following safety or quality incidents.
• Serve as a role model for safety compliance, operational discipline, and safe leadership behavior.

People Management

• Lead and managedepartmentsthrough their respective managers.
• Ensure clear accountability, performance expectations, and disciplined execution across all shifts.
• Enforce attendance, discipline, and standard work fairly and consistently.
• Identify capability gaps and coordinate training and staffing needs with HR.

Operations

• Own the day-to-day operational performance of the plant against approved production plans (safety, volume, quality,cost, and delivery).
• Chair the daily operations meeting to review safety alerts, production performance, downtime, risks, and agreed actions.
• Ensure effective shift handovers and enforcement of standard operating proceduresthrough the department managersto maintain stable and predictable plant operation.
• Approve and align weekly and daily production plans prepared by the Production Manager, ensuring feasibility and resource availability.
• Remove operational constraints impacting execution by coordinating actions across Production, Maintenance,Warehouse, and support functions.
• Lead production through the Production Manager by setting priorities and holding accountability, without direct shift supervision.
• Monitor operating costs, challenge inefficiencies, and work with Finance and Purchasing on cost variances, service contracts, and energy consumption without compromising safety or quality.

External Relations & Governance

• Represent the plant in interactions with local authorities, regulators, and external auditors.Coordinate site inspections, audits, and official visits, and ensure timely closure of findings.
• Maintain operational inputs to site registrations, permits, and renewals with support from HESQ, HR, and Finance.Act as the primary on-site point of contact for operational issues with external parties, including utilities and
• community stakeholders where required.
• Escalate major incidents, regulatory risks, repeated breakdowns, or production threats to the Site Director with clear facts and recovery plans.