Plant Manager

Richmond, BC
On-site
Posted Sep 1, 2026
1 position

$130,000–$140,000 / year

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Employment type: Full-time
Experience level: Lead · 10+ years
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week

Job summary

The Plant Manager will oversee all manufacturing, maintenance, and logistics operations to ensure safety, quality, and operational excellence. They are responsible for driving continuous improvement, managing the plant budget, and developing a high-performing team.

Job details

Plant Manager Richmond, British Columbia Build Capability, Improve Performance, Scale Success We are looking for an experienced, people-focused Plant Manager to lead our coffee roasting and manufacturing operations in Richmond, BC, driving quality, operational excellence, and a customer-focused culture. You will own plant performance across manufacturing, maintenance, and internal logistics while building a culture of safety, accountability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. What You’ll Do Lead Safety & Food Safety Excellence: * Set the standards for a safe, food-safe, quality-focused operation where people, products, and customers come first. * Build internal accountability, systems, and leadership discipline that keep the plant compliant, audit-ready, and operating to high standards. Drive Operational Performance: * Lead the plant to deliver the right product, quality, and timing while balancing people, capacity, cost, and customer demand. * Translate business priorities into clear goals, performance measures, and decisions that drive results within the plant. Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement: * Champion Lean manufacturing thinking and challenge how work gets done to improve flow, productivity, reliability, quality, and cost. * Turn ideas into measurable results and embed improvements into everyday operations. Develop High-Performing Teams: * Create clarity around expectations, accountability, and performance while giving leaders and employees the tools to succeed. * Develop future plant leaders through coaching, capability building, and meaningful opportunities to lead. Lead Reliability & Asset Performance: * Strengthen the reliability and performance of equipment, systems, and infrastructure. * Shape investment priorities in equipment, automation, technology, and capacity to support current performance and future growth. Partner Across the Business: * Bring an operational perspective to business decisions and collaborate across Sales, Quality, Supply Chain, Production, Maintenance, Warehousing, and other functions. * Turn customer needs, new products, packaging opportunities, and growth plans into successful plant execution. Scope of Leadership Manufacturing Operations: * Own overall plant performance across roasting, packaging, maintenance, and internal logistics. * Set operating direction and priorities, balancing Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, People, and Environment to deliver business and customer commitments. Safety, Food Safety & Compliance: * Set the leadership expectations and operating discipline required for a safe, compliant, high-quality food manufacturing environment. * Uphold plant accountability for OHS, SQF, HACCP, GMP, customer, and other applicable standards. Operational Excellence: * Shape the plant’s continuous improvement agenda, embedding Lean manufacturing thinking, structured problem-solving, and sustainable performance improvement. * Influence how work is designed, measured, and improved across the operation. Maintenance & Reliability: * Set priorities for preventive maintenance, equipment reliability, downtime reduction, and asset performance. * Influence capital, automation, infrastructure, and technology decisions that strengthen plant capability and future capacity. People Leadership: * Lead and develop the plant leadership team, creating clarity, accountability, engagement, and a strong pipeline of future leaders. * Shape workforce capability through staffing, development, performance, succession, and partnership with People & Culture. Financial Stewardship: * Own plant financial performance through responsible management of the operating budget and controllable manufacturing costs. * Balance investment and cost decisions with safety, quality, reliability, customer service, and long-term business value. Who You Are You’re an experienced manufacturing leader who combines operational discipline with a people-first leadership approach. You know how to turn business priorities into plant performance, build capable teams, and create a culture where safety, quality, reliability, and continuous improvement are how work gets done. You bring: * Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Food Science, Operations Management, Business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. * 7–10 years of progressive manufacturing experience, including at least 5 years leading teams in a supervisory or management capacity, ideally in food, beverage, coffee, or CPG manufacturing. * Demonstrated experience leading plant operations, budgets, people, performance, and continuous improvement. * Strong understanding of food manufacturing and OHS requirements, including SQF or another GFSI-recognized program, HACCP, GMPs, sanitation, and preventive controls. * Strong knowledge of Lean manufacturing, structured problem-solving, operational performance, and continuous improvement; Lean Six Sigma training is an advantage. * Experience with maintenance and reliability, capital projects, automated manufacturing or packaging equipment, and ERP/MRP or manufacturing performance systems. * Strong financial, analytical, planning, decision-making, and communication skills, with the ability to balance operational priorities and business outcomes. * Coffee roasting, blending, and packaging experience, or an MBA/advanced business education, is an advantage. We Offer: * Base salary range of $130,000 - $140,000. Salary will be commensurate with experience, skills, and qualifications. * Comprehensive health and dental benefits. * 4 weeks of paid vacation. * Immediate eligibility to participate in our Group Benefits Program. * Vacation Purchase Program * Paid Volunteer Day * Employee pricing on our product line-up * Free, on-site parking * A fun and supportive environment with opportunities for learning and development. * And…a workplace filled with the aroma of coffee….all day…every day

What you’ll do

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and 7–10 years of progressive manufacturing experience, including at least 5 years in a leadership capacity. Proficiency in food safety standards, Lean manufacturing, and operational performance management is required.