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AI Summary
Seeking a Plant Manager to lead all aspects of manufacturing operations, ensuring high standards of safety, quality, and delivery. This role involves strategic leadership, P&L accountability, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in engineering or a related technical field with extensive leadership experience.
Key Highlights
Responsible for achieving operating results and corporate initiatives.
Manages plant P&L, budgets, forecasts, and strategic development.
Oversees product launches and ensures compliance with OSHA, ISO, and other standards.
Drives continuous improvement through lean manufacturing principles and asset utilization.
Manages functional managers and fosters positive employee relations.
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
401(k) program with 4% company match
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Health insurance
Health savings account
Life insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave
Relocation assistance
Retirement plan
Vision insurance
Job Description
Position Description
The Plant Manager is responsible for providing leadership in order to achieve the required operating results and corporate initiatives. In addition, the Plant Manager is responsible for maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality and delivery to accomplish manufacturing objectives and to satisfy customer expectations.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Oversee all aspects of the business through strategic leadership and effective tactical management.
- Coach, engage and direct staff to deliver operational results that meet and exceed organizational expectations for the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), including safety, quality, cost, delivery, absenteeism, training, compliance, on-time program launch, communications, etc.
- Own plant P&L, budgets, forecasts and development and implementation of strategy.
- Review monthly and annual financial statements for budgetary comparisons, assess performance levels using gap analysis and identify action-oriented, corrective responses as necessary.
- Collaborate with functional leaders for effective deployment of functional strategies, initiatives and programs that affect the location(s), and ensure all teams are strategically aligned with the Company's goals.
- Lead operations with a view to improving manufacturing processes through improved asset utilization and strategic capital investment.
- Create and manage capital budgets, long range site and facility master plans in order to meet growth objectives.
- Collaborate with Sales to align manufacturing capacity with strategic revenue growth.
- Oversee product launch in accordance with the organization's Flawless Launch initiatives.
- Champion learning and implementation of the (SPS) system for assigned locations.
- Audit the SPS system in all value streams on a regular basis.
- Drive the identification, selection, and prioritization of projects and maintain a productivity project pipeline on an on-going basis.
- Ensure compliance with all required OSHA, ISO, and other required standards.
- Make sure best practices are at the forefront of all projects such as equipment installation, safety, 5S, quality, lean, preventative maintenance, etc.
- Establish managerial leadership, credibility and trust through clear communication and actions with all levels of the organization (Positive Employee Relations).
- Enforce ethical business practices and be a model for the Core Values of the Company.
- The Plant Manager manages functional managers (e.g. Materials Manger, Controller, Quality, etc.).
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering or related technical field and minimum of ten (10) years relevant experience in Engineering, Production or Supply Chain.
- Minimum eight (8) years of leadership experience at managerial level, preferably in automotive related industry. Leadership in a TPM environment is a plus.
- Experience with accountability for P&L and development and management of an operational budget and long-range plans.
- Experience in product launch(s) or demonstrated high-level project management leadership role(s).
- Experience with TS and ISO standards and audit processes.
- Experience multistep manufacturing operations including robotic automation and automated press line feeds.
- Must have demonstrated the ability to create and lead teams and drive change.
- Interpersonal skills to effectively lead and influence and do work across organizational boundaries including corporate resources, contractors and Plant personnel.
- Demonstrated continuous improvement and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrates strong financial business acumen (or something related to financials) Knowledge and implementation of Toyota Production System and Lean tools.
- Must have demonstrated computer skills such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
- Must be able to travel up to 10%
- Six Sigma Green belt certification or similar continuous improvement certification (e.g. Lean, Kaizen, Shainin, etc.)
- Culture that supports teamwork to deliver results.
- Workplace where teams care about each other and your voice is heard.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- 401(k) program with 4% company match
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Relocation assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
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