Plant Manager

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Are you ready to do something remarkable? Ready to collaborate with an incredible team to solve problems that improve people’s lives? Meet Ingevity.

At Ingevity, we develop innovations that purify, protect and enhance the world around us. Our products enable oil to flow better, crops to grow fuller, roads to last longer and ensure that the air we all breathe is cleaner.

Our people come from all different backgrounds and help reimagine new possibilities daily. We understand there is no challenge too big and no contribution too small. We seek out new ideas for tackling complex problems and celebrate achieving the improbable. We value each person’s unique talents and synergize them to create meaningful impact and sustainable solutions for our customers and our world.

Bold. Energetic. Ingenious. Genuine. If these qualities describe you, we’d love for you to join Ingevity!

Are you ready to lead a flagship site and shape its culture and performance while making a real impact on safety, sustainability, and customer experience? Are you looking for a role that will allow you growth and visibility across an organization’s operations and leadership network? If so, this North Charleston Plant Manager role is for you.

In this role, you will lead end-to-end operations for Ingevity’s North Charleston plant in a 24/7 manufacturing environment. You will ensure safe, reliable, and cost-effective production that meets customer commitments. You will set the vision, develop people and systems, and drive continuous improvement across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and sustainability. This role reports to the and is a key site and community leader.

How you will impact Ingevity:

• Lead with safety: Champion a proactive safety culture; ensure OSHA/EPA compliance; drive near-miss reporting, root-cause analysis, and effective corrective actions.

• Run the plant: Own production planning, operational performance, inventory, and logistics to meet service, quality, and cost targets in a 24/7 operation.

• Drive Customer Focus: Coordinate with S&OP to ensure that operational schedules are executed and optimized to meet customer needs.

• Coordinate across the network: Lead relationship with third-party company, Mainstream Pine Products (MPP), operating a refinery within the plant complex, by managing shared resource agreements, driving operational collaboration, and ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and service-level expectations.

• Maintain assets: Direct preventive/predictive maintenance, turnaround planning, reliability engineering, and critical spares to maximize uptime.

• Assure quality: Maintain and improve management systems and certifications rigor, and customer complaint resolution; partner closely with QA and Technical teams.

• Elevate performance: Deploy Lean/TPM/Six Sigma to reduce waste, improve OEE, stabilize processes, and sustain standard work.

• Develop people and teams: Coach and mentor leaders; foster an inclusive, high-trust environment across hourly and salaried teams and with union/non-union stakeholders.

• Plan and budget: Build and manage site operating and capital budgets; evaluate and execute CapEx with clear ROI, risk controls, and timely delivery.

• Represent the site: Serve as the face of the plant with employees, community partners, auditors, and regulators.

• Labor relations: Function as the company representative in maintaining relations and ensuring adherence to contract terms with the local labor union.

• Decision authority: Exercise authority to make decisions necessary to operate the facility safely, reliably, and in an environmentally sound manner.

What you need to succeed:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, or a related field. Advanced degrees or certifications (e.g., Six Sigma, CMRP) are a plus.

• Experience: You bring 15 years of experience in Manufacturing or production environments with a focused five years of progressive leadership in the operations management of chemical, specialty materials, paper, or related industries; prior accountability for a 24/7 operation with diverse teams.

• Operations toolkit: Demonstrated results using Lean/TPM/Six Sigma, reliability-centered maintenance, and sound financial acumen (P&L, cost drivers, ROI).

• Safety and compliance: Proven record improving TRIR/near-miss engagement and managing OSHA/EPA requirements and audits. Experience managing within a Process Safety Management (PSM) environment.

• People leadership: Ability to set clear expectations, provide actionable feedback, and build inclusive, high-performance teams.

• Communication: Clear, direct communicator who simplifies complexity and aligns teams around priorities.

• Union experience: Experience in a union manufacturing environment preferred.

Ingevity is a company made up of extraordinary people of every race, religion and background, all worthy of the same dignity. Our differences are one of our great strengths. Join us in building a culture of increasing diversity and respect – a culture where everyone belongs.

Ingevity is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled.

Recruiting Agencies: Ingevity does not accept unsolicited resumes and therefore, will not be responsible for any fees associated with unsolicited resumes.