Welcome to Cascades!

Bring your expertise to a people-first, dynamic environment where your ideas come to life and excellence shapes everything we do.
Join CHRIS MARTIN EVERETT's team as a Plant Manager in Rockingham and help build a more sustainable future.

What’s in it for you

Taking care of our people is in our nature - so you’ll enjoy:

• Annual salary starting at $160,000
• Profit sharing and an employee share purchase plan
• A full range of benefits: group insurance, telemedicine, and an employer-supported retirement plan
• An annual allowance to spend on goods and services of your choice
• A yearly wellness program and employee assistance program
• A collaborative, respectful, and people-centered workplace

Your Role

As Plant Manager, you’ll take on real challenges that bring out your full potential. 
Your scope includes:

• Lead all plant operations to achieve safety, quality, production, and financial objectives.
• Drive a strong safety culture through visible leadership and accountability.
• Improve reliability through preventive/predictive maintenance, planning, scheduling, and root cause analysis.
• Optimize paper machine performance, equipment uptime, productivity, and product quality.
• Manage plant financial performance, including cost per ton, labor, maintenance, fiber, chemical, and energy costs.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives using data-driven problem-solving methods.
• Develop and strengthen leadership, technical, and hourly teams.
• Build and execute recovery plans for underperforming operations with measurable business impact

What you bring

You're a natural fit for Plant Manager if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, or related field preferred.
• 15+ years of manufacturing leadership experience in tissue, paper, pulp, or related process industries.
• Proven experience leading paper machine operations and driving performance improvements.
• Demonstrated success managing operational turnarounds and improving underperforming facilities.
• Strong knowledge of papermaking processes, maintenance and reliability systems, continuous improvement, and plant financial management.
• Proven ability to lead large teams, develop talent, and drive organizational change.
• Tissue manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Progressive leadership experience from Operations/Production Management into Plant or Mill Leadership.
  
• Track record of improving safety, OEE, uptime, quality, productivity, and cost performance.

If you bring the same care to who you are as to what you do, we’d love to meet you!

Apply now and join our team as Plant Manager in Rockingham.

Cascades values diversity and inclusion and considers all applications equitably. This posting is for an active vacancy within our organization.