Plant Manager
Purple Squirrel Advisors
Dowagiac, MI · Posted November 7, 2026
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Operations jobs in the rankings
Rankings about operations jobs
- Best cities for operations jobs #1 New York (1,429 openings)
- Best cities for operations pay after cost of living #1 Reston ($177k)
- Most requested AI skills in operations jobs #1 AI tools in daily work (2.5%)
- AI tools named most often in operations jobs #1 Claude (0.28%)
- Employers with the most operations jobs #1 Amazon (1,480 roles)
Pay compared with the market
This listing does not state pay. Across 76 open plant manager listings that state pay, the middle half runs $120,000 to $164,500 and the median is $142,500.
Listed pay is what employers advertise, not what people are paid.
How AI is used in this kind of work
AI use among industrial production managers is little observed so far. Measured exposure for industrial production managers: 1% (little observed).
Share of this job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage. It is not a forecast of job loss, and a low number means no use seen yet. Source: Anthropic Economic Index.
About the job
...The Plant Manager will run every part of plant operations for our client: production, maintenance, quality, materials, shipping, and plant staff. They need a hands-on, professional manufacturing leader who knows high-volume cold heading, runs a disciplined ISO shop, and...