You’ll work with a passionate, visionary CEO who values collaboration, continuous improvement, and practical innovation. He listens to good ideas, sets a clear tone for the organization, and enables success.  

This is a growth role in a profitable company, not a cost-cutting assignment. The business is self-sustaining, scaling faster than expected, and able to invest in people, equipment, and manufacturing improvements.  

You’ll lead a salt-of-the-earth, dedicated, hands-on team that has helped increase output 3x over the past year and now needs a practical plant leader to help strengthen systems and guide continued growth.  

Establish clear priorities, expectations, communication routines, and accountability across the site. 

Strengthen safety practices, quality, housekeeping, dust-control practices, and material handling techniques. 

Document current operating practices, add formal training expectations, and guide the plant toward more repeatable, standardized work processes to help facilitate seamless future growth. 

Identify and support practical improvements in production flow, labor utilization, equipment layout, batch and packaging flow, warehouse layout, equipment upgrades, automation opportunities, and future capacity needs. 

Help move the plant from reactive maintenance toward a more preventive maintenance structure. 

Onsite near Orlando / Daytona Beach, Florida.  

A 4-year business or engineering degree is helpful but not required. Equivalent hands-on plant leadership experience will be considered. 

Approximately 10–15+ years of manufacturing or plant operations leadership experience, ideally including leadership in a small or mid-sized manual batch chemical manufacturing environment or related operation, such as dry ingredients, food production, industrial baking, or similar. 

Down-to-earth, hands-on leadership style that will be respected by manufacturing employees. 

Practical experience improving safety, quality, labor efficiency, equipment reliability, and process documentation. 

Best fits will have, but this is not required: 

Experience specifically with solids blending, powder handling, packaging, and dust-control considerations. 

Additional background in a modern plant with packaging and batching automation, a preventive maintenance program, and formalized safety systems. 

Must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer without sponsorship now or in the future.