Plant Manager

The Plant Manager will manage all aspects of a stand-alone production facility including production strategy, plant engineering, manufacturing engineering, human resources, finance, compliance, purchasing, logistics and quality.  He/she will also be responsible for securing new business, product pricing, sales support and funding new product development. 

The Plant Manager will:

• Drive a culture of safety within the company’s operations to improve working conditions, where required, to reduce injuries, minimize downtime, reduce workers’ compensation costs, and improve worker morale.
• Work with the leaders of global sourcing, inventory management, and logistics and warehousing practices to create forward thinking improvements.
• Foster best practices between sales, engineering, and manufacturing to provide better visibility to sales forecasts to improve production planning, purchasing and supply chain practices, and order to delivery timelines.

• Lead, teach, and implement enterprise-wide lean practices and other best operational excellence programs across the entire business to enhance productivity, quality, working capital utilization, and manufacturing profitability.  Maximize synergies between manufacturing operations and demand flow and production planning to reduce cost, eliminate redundancies, and improve processes and product flow.  Instill these operating philosophies in all aspects of the operations.

• Empower all functional members of the organization to implement quality practices and procedures into all aspects of operations.  Drive an operational focus on first time quality.

• Ensure operations-wide compliance with all Corporate, local, state and federal regulations in all areas of legal, employment, environmental, health and safety.

• Maintain a positive employee relationship with the workforce.

• Grow and place the right talent for today and tomorrow; ensure everyone gets the development they need; and develop a strong bench strength of leaders to meet the future needs of the company including succession candidates.

• Emphasize sound business and operations processes and build strong, effective and collaborative teams between the local and global operations and functional teams. 

Education

An undergraduate degree in business or engineering is required.  An MBA or advanced engineering degree is preferred.

Experience

Minimum of 15 years of experience in roles of increasing responsibility and scope in a manufacturing environment, including experience in two functional roles with one in operations, most appropriately with a Tier I automotive supplier.  The most important aspects include:

• Operations experience demonstrating both leadership and management resulting in strong operational performance and a highly engaged workforce and positive culture;
   
• Significant business expansion or new product program introduction and launch experience in a plant environment;

• Financial acumen and experience with managing a P&L is essential; experience with financial forecasting methods and with income statement, balance sheet and cash flow;
• An understanding of modern quality, speed, delivery, service, efficiency and effectiveness demands coming from sophisticated customers who have a deep focus on supply chain management.  Automotive Tier I supplier experience is the most applicable to this requirement;

• A strong understanding of modern manufacturing techniques that should include both product and process design tools prior to launch such as QFD, FMEA, DFM, etc., as well as continuous improvement tools such as ongoing Kaizen improvements, Six Sigma and DFSS analyses, appropriate measures at every level, etc.; strong experience in the implementation of the principles of lean manufacturing and are capable of fostering a culture of waste elimination and continuous improvement;

• Experience in precision machining and assembly operations is most desired.  Other experience in manufacturing processes that have similar requirements will be considered;

• The Plant Manager must have proven business acumen coming from experience and education that includes a strong capability to understand income statements, balance sheets, cash flow analysis and budgeting techniques effectively.

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