
Plant Manager, Support Services
Materion · Elmore, OH
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Production
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 15+ years
- Certification
- Black Belt preferred
- Industry
- Metals
- Posted
- 13 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management production role at Materion (metals) in Elmore, OH. T he Plant Manager, Support Services will ensure seamless coordination among these departments to achieve operational excellence, maintain compliance, and drive continuous improvement across all areas of the plan .
- They ask for
- 15+ years · degree required · Black Belt preferred
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, Black Belt, Green Belt, EHS / safety
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Engineer roles in Ohio: typical posted base $120k–$150k.
Median of the low and high ends of 7 live postings that list pay, out of 44 production engineer openings in Ohio, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Ohio plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 43 other live production postings in Ohio.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (15+ vs 8+)
Typical $120k–$150k, from 7 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 8+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 66%
- ✓ Lean 52%
- ✓ EHS / safety 36%
- ✓ Six Sigma 30%
- New product launch 23%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Black Belt, Green Belt, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Materion in Elmore
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Full description from MaterionAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree in related field required (Engineering, Operations Management, Technology); Master’s Degree preferred.
- ✓12-15 years or more of managerial experience in manufacturing/industrial environments; heavy industrial - capital intensive desired.
- ✓Working knowledge of OSHA regulations, Environmental regulations and labor law.
- ✓Knowledge of business and management principles (budgeting, strategic planning, resource allocation and human resources).
- ✓Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Green Belt or equivalent knowledge of formal Quality and Productivity Improvement Processes.
- ✓Strong analytical and critical thinking skills; focus on driving disciplined, fact-based decisions and executing with discipline and urgency.
- ✓Track record of successful Project Management experience, leading multiple projects.
- ✓Strong team building, decision-making and people management skills.
- ✓Ability to create accountability and to lead by example.
- ✓Experience in both direct leadership of subordinate staff as well as “influencing” others to achieve desired results.
- ✓Inspirational & adaptive leadership style that promotes innovation and collaboration that fosters an engaged workforce committed to common goals.
- ✓Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including ability to present information to diverse audiences.
The selection of the person to be hired for this position is contingent on the candidate having export compliance eligibility for access to U.S. controlled technology which comes under the licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
The candidate selected will have to qualify as either a U.S. citizen, a U.S. National, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a Person Admitted into the U.S. as an Asylee or Refugee., a National of a country that is not prohibited from having access to U.S. controlled technology (via a letter of assurance), or a Person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction. Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on Materion’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with Materion’s business requirements.
Materion Corporation and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) is an equal employment opportunity employer. It is the Company’s policy to not unlawfully discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.
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At Materion, everyone is included, respected and offered opportunity to grow. Join us!
The Elmore Plant Manager, Support Services , is responsible for the effective management of all functional teams associated with the Elmore facility. This includes Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S), Quality, Maintenance, Facilities, Security, Shipping & Receiving and Plant Administrative support. T he Plant Manager, Support Services will ensure seamless coordination among these departments to achieve operational excellence, maintain compliance, and drive continuous improvement across all areas of the plan .
Based at our Elmore, Ohio facility and reporting to the Vice President, Operations - Materion Performance Materials (PM), this highly visible role operates on multiple levels in a matrixed organization.
You will have the opportunity to
- •Drives initiatives to foster a best-in-class safety culture.
- •Supports the Elmore Plant Manager, Operations, to ensure On Time Delivery, Productivity and Cost targets are met.
- •Manages and monitors systems that ensure compliance with OSHA and environmental regulations, labor law and compliance, with corporate policies and procedures.
- •Collaborates across Materion’s global organization to achieve lowest cost position in all functional areas.
- •Able to develop and hone functional strategies to support Operations and their implementation.
- •Differentiates through manufacturing excellence based on process reliability and the fundamental concepts of Lean Six Sigma or other continuous improvement tools in all business areas.
- •Provides critical business analytics for high profile/strategic projects.
- •Demonstrates and utilizes principles and industry standard methodologies in asset management to improve the overall reliability for the assets, equipment, systems operated and maintained by Materion.
- •Understands, develops and follows processes/procedures to collect relevant information for decision-making in capital planning for Materion’s asset management, asset renewal or asset replacement.
- •Manages, coaches and develops plant leadership team.
- •Develops plant talent, skills and career paths to attract, retain, engage a highly skilled workforce.
- •Drives organizational development initiatives to align workforce plans with business needs.
- •Serves as a primary local community partner on behalf of Materion.
- •Is customer-focused and exceeds customer expectations in all aspects of our business.
- •Is results-oriented, team based organizational approach in line with high personal and professional standards.
