10 Ball plant leaders
Plant Manager is the current title held by each of these Ball plant leaders, every one of them running a Ball Corporation plant today. A reader can learn how plant leaders run their sites at Ball from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Adrián Blanco
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Ball Corporation
Adrián Blanco has been Plant Manager at Ball Corporation since July 2025, based in the United States. At Ball Corporation they were also Assistant Plant Manager (2023–2025), Plant Engineering Manager (2017–2023) and Endline Process Superintendent (2015–2017), and they were Engineering Head - Can Ends at Crown Holdings, Inc. (2013–2015).
Chad Yates
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Ball Corporation
Chad Yates has been Plant Manager at Ball Corporation since September 2022, based in Rome, Georgia. At Ball Corporation they were also Assistant Plant Manager (2021–2022) and Production Manager Maintenance Manager (2017), and they were Production Manager at Tsubaki CCCD (2017–2021).
Cinthya Saldaña
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Ball Corporation
Cinthya Saldaña has been Plant Manager at Ball Corporation since March 2026 and lists another current Plant Manager row there from January 2024, based in Glendale, Arizona. At Ball Corporation they were also Assistant Plant Manager (2022–2023) and Plant Production Manager (2020–2022).
Eric Varcoe
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Ball Corporation
Eric Varcoe has been Plant Manager at Ball Corporation since February 2025 and lists other Plant Manager rows there from 2024 and from 2018 to 2024, based in Ballston Spa, New York. At Ball Corporation they were also Production Manager (2015–2018) and Backend Process Superintendent (2014–2015).
Haleigh Schmitt
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Ball Corporation
Haleigh Schmitt has been Plant Manager at Ball Corporation since February 2026, based in Longmont, Colorado. At Ball Corporation they were also Director, Manufacturing Excellence (NCA) (2024–2026) and Regional Operational Excellence Manager (2022–2024), and they were Sr. Manager Distribution Center Operations at Vail Resorts (2021–2022).
Jacob Marynik
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Ball Corporation
Jacob Marynik has been Plant Manager at Ball Corporation since August 2026, based in the Greater Tampa Bay Area, and also lists an Assistant Plant Manager row there from April 2025. At Ball Corporation they were also Plant Production Manager (2024–2025) and Operational Excellence Specialist (2023–2024).
Jeff Milam
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Ball Corporation
Jeff Milam has been Plant Manager at Ball Corporation since June 2016, based in Weirton, West Virginia. At Ball Corporation they were also Asst. Plant Manager (2013–2016) and Operations manager (2012–2013), and they were Dept. Manager at Ball Packaging Europe (2007–2012).
Kari Schuster
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Ball Corporation
Kari Schuster has been Plant Manager at Ball Corporation since March 2025, based in Conroe, Texas, and was Assistant Plant Manager there from 2022 to 2025. They were also Operations Manager (2021–2022), Engineering Manager (2019–2022) and Maintenance Manager (2017–2021) at Ocean Spray Cranberries.
Mike Mohn
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Ball Corporation
Mike Mohn has been Plant Manager at Ball Corporation since December 2011, based in Elgin, Illinois, and the profile headline reads Plant Manager at Ball. At Ball Corporation they were also Manager Production Operations from July 2009 to December 2011, and these two Ball roles are the work rows the listing shows for them.
Thomas B. McKay
LinkedInExperience: Plant Manager · Ball Corporation
Thomas B. McKay has been Plant Manager at Ball Corporation since January 2019 and also lists a Plant Manager row there from 2017 to 2018, based in Findlay, Ohio. At Ball Corporation they were also Assistant Plant Manager (2017) and held Manager Plant Production rows from 2010 to 2017.
Choose the right perspective
Pick the person whose own plant role and the steps they took inside plants come closest to the problem you want to talk through. Check when each person took charge of their plant, because someone in the first year and someone with several years in the job will see different things.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What did you focus on first when you became plant manager, and why?
- 02How do you split your time between the production floor and the wider business?
- 03What did the roles you held inside a plant before running one teach you about the job?
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