Plant Manager

The Plant Manager is responsible for providing leadership, direction, and resource stewardship for a high-volume manufacturing site. This role is accountable for driving timely and impactful improvements to the operating environment and for delivering performance at or above expectations for safety, quality, delivery, cost, and their team. He/She will lead the execution of cross-functional strategies and plans that ensure we execute the company’s manufacturing excellence roadmap. The goals of this role are to manage structured change and combine long-term thinking with near term actions and decisions.

Successful candidates demonstrate their commitment to their team by taking direct responsibility for the safety of the people who work in your business, build trust and value the experience of the team around them and look to develop the people, sets high expectations for self and others, is a change agent and an effective communicator, is comfortable frequently interacting with senior leaders, and shows personal resilience. 

KEY OBJECTIVES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Operations Leadership

• Set an unwavering expectation that relationships between supervisors, peers, and employees are respectful and inclusive.

• Maintain environments that influence how we feel physically and mentally at work and reflect attention to detail not only in the quality of our output, but in our daily productive routines.

• Develop site strategies for COGS reduction while managing growth and/or expansion.

• Reduce costs of goods measured as savings year-to-year including direct labor and overhead.

• Manage and ensure successful new product/piloting.

Cross Functional Leadership

• Take responsibility for the safety and security of the people who work in our business, the products we supply to customers, and the company’s physical assets; identify, assess, and address any immediate safety and security issues.

• Create optimized schedules that balance production efficiency, deliver supply, and employee well-being by selectively and strategically using OT.

• Ensure compliance with quality assurance measured in our QA Index and Right First Time.

• Help drive all TQM activities within the sites.

Operations Excellence

• Invest a substantial amount of time reinforcing our manufacturing excellence roadmap, holding his/herself and others accountable for performance and leadership commitments.

• Identify and implement ways of working that make lean thinking and employee engagement a way of life in the plant: focus will be on the process, not the individual.

• Drive simplification efforts within the site, particularly those that impact operational costs.

• Help manage the effort for all new equipment, assist in establishing a project team, clearly establishing a Commissioning/Qualification/Verification (CQV) process approach.

Talent & Organization

• Invest significant effort on talent offense and aligning training and development of teams to mindsets and skillsets important to the future of our business.

• Provide tactical direction as needed for all operations groups.

• Develop and train leadership and technical groups.

• Use qualitative and quantitative approaches to forecasting labor demand and mix.

Culture

• Foster a culture, including ways of working and behaviors, that is congruent with our mission, values, and success model.

• Take an active role in the community: raise awareness about opportunities the manufacturing industry can offer, nurture future manufacturing talent, grow their network and the company’s reputation, and give back.

• Develop and deliver approaches to improve culture based on employee engagement survey data.

• Develop and implement solutions that drive a high-performance culture.

Other

• Lead and participate in cross-functional projects and business initiatives as needed.

• Perform other duties, as required.