When you go from Production Manager to Plant Manager / Plant Head
What you can't imagine when you go from Production Manager to Plant Manager...
As a Production Manager, you feel like you already see the whole plant.
You see processes, shifts, indicators, costs and tons.
But when you get to Plant Manager... You realize that was just one part of the game.
What you don't imagine is that:
Now you represent the entire plant, up, down, and out.
The problems do not end at the mill... they start with the community, the union, the customers, the environment.
You don't report figures... You deliver results to a country, to a corporation that expects total vision.
You don't just manage resources... you answer for what a plant spends and produces that invoices $700,000 USD daily.
You're no longer part of the pressure. You are the one who absorbs it, filters it and transforms it into decisions.
And the most difficult thing is not to get there.
It is to keep going.
Because sustaining yourself as a Plant Manager requires more than results.
Requires:
✅ Trust: from the team, the corporate and the community.
✅ Initiative: to generate value beyond the budget.
✅ Work environment: inside and outside, so that the operation breathes, advances and does not burst.
✅ Judgment and temperance: to decide with incomplete information and under pressure.
Being a Plant Manager is not a technical promotion.
It is the leap to total leadership.
You won't know until you're there.
And when you're there... You'll understand why not everyone makes it, and why it's worth preparing well beyond the process.
Are you already preparing for that leap?
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