Key Performance Outcomes:The Plant Manager is expected to:
- Safety & Environmental Performance:
- Achieve yearoveryear improvement in safety metrics, ensuring the Defiance complex meets or exceeds JM safety, health, and environmental commitments.
- Maintain full regulatory compliance while reducing risk through proactive hazard identification, strong safety culture, and disciplined operating practices.
- Operational Excellence:
- Improve plant productivity, throughput, yield, and uptime through disciplined execution of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement systems.
- Ensure Defiance remains a reliable, highquality supplier to internal JM plants and external customers, improving customer satisfaction and reducing quality escapes.
- Balance shortterm operational demands with longterm process stability and asset reliability.
- People & Culture:
- Build and sustain an engaged, accountable, performancedriven culture aligned with JM values.
- Develop leaders and succession pipelines by coaching, setting clear expectations, and holding leaders accountable for results.
- Effectively lead within a union environment, maintaining productive labor relations while driving performance.
- Financial Performance:
- Deliver annual operating results against budget and forecast, including cost, working capital, and inventory performance.
- Translate financial analysis into actionable operating decisions that improve profitability and asset efficiency.
- Capital & Strategic Execution:
- Lead major capital programs-including furnace rebuilds, automation, and capacity expansions-delivering projects safely, on schedule, and within approved funding.
- Improve plant efficiency and strategic flexibility through disciplined evaluation and execution of capital investments.
- Systems, Governance & Reporting:
- Establish and maintain robust operating metrics, management routines, and reporting systems that drive accountability and continuous improvement.
- Partner with senior leadership to align site execution with both nearterm business priorities and longrange strategic objectives.
- External Leadership:
- Serve as the primary representative of JM for the Defiance complex with community stakeholders, regulatory agencies, customers, and corporate leadership.
Why This Role Stands Out:- EnterpriseCritical Leadership Role: Lead one of JM's largest, most complex, and most visible manufacturing complexes with direct impact on networkwide supply and performance.
- True Scale and Accountability: Full responsibility for a multisite, capitalintensive operation with 600+ hourly and 60+ salaried employees, multiple unions, and diverse product lines.
- Transformation Opportunity: Drive major capital investments-including furnace rebuilds, automation, and potential expansion-shaping the future of the plant, not just maintaining it.
- High Visibility, High Impact: Significant interaction with senior leadership and corporate stakeholders; success here is highly visible and careeraccelerating.
- CareerDefining Challenge: Ideal for a proven plant leader seeking complexity, influence, and the chance to leave a lasting operational and cultural legacy.
Qualifications & Leadership Capabilities:- Bachelor's degree required (engineering or technical related degree preferred) with 12+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience, including 5+ years as a Plant Manager or equivalent senior site leadership role.
- Demonstrated success leading large, complex, multiline manufacturing operations with union and salaried workforces.
- Proven ability to deliver measurable improvements in safety, productivity, quality, cost, and employee engagement.
- Strong financial acumen with experience managing P&L performance and capital programs.
- Deep knowledge of continuous improvement disciplines (Lean, Six Sigma, KepnerTregoe, or similar).
- Experience with environmental permitting, regulatory agencies, and safety program leadership.
- Strong technical and mechanical aptitude with the ability to challenge and improve manufacturing systems.
- Highly effective communicator and collaborator, capable of influencing at all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrated ability to set clear direction, prioritize competing demands, and drive disciplined execution.
- Willingness to travel periodically (11-29 days per year).
Security Clearance Required: No
Visa Candidate Considered: No
CompensationBase Salary - USD $200,000 to $240,000
