DescriptionLocation: Greater Birmingham, Alabama AreaThis position will support the launch of a new manufacturing facility in the southwest Birmingham metropolitan area. - Lead all plant operations to achieve objectives for safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
- Direct Just-in-Time (JIT) and Just-in-Sequence (JIS) operations to ensure accurate, uninterrupted delivery aligned with customer production schedules.
- Establish plant priorities, performance expectations, and accountability across all shifts and functional teams.
- Ensure effective staffing, labor utilization, material flow, equipment availability, and operational readiness to meet customer requirements.
- Monitor plant performance and drive corrective actions for production, sequencing, quality, delivery, labor, and cost concerns.
- Serve as the primary site leader for customer operational issues and escalations, leading containment, recovery, and corrective action activities as needed.
- Champion a strong safety and quality culture, ensuring compliance with company standards, regulatory requirements, standardized work, and customer-specific requirements.
- Manage plant financial and operational performance, including labor, overtime, productivity, scrap, premium freight, operating costs, budgets, and key performance indicators.
- Lead, develop, and hold accountable the plant leadership team while fostering employee engagement, communication, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- Drive lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives to optimize sequencing accuracy, material flow, labor efficiency, quality, equipment reliability, and overall plant performance.
Position Requirements - 10+ years of progressive leadership experience within automotive manufacturing, sequencing, or related operations.
- Plant management or senior operations leadership experience.
- Experience supporting JIT/JIS automotive environments strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, customer-driven operation.
- Strong knowledge of safety, quality, production, material flow, labor planning, and continuous improvement principles.
- Experience with lean manufacturing, standardized work, root-cause problem solving, and operational KPI management.
- Strong financial and business acumen with experience managing plant operating costs and performance.
- Strong leadership, communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and respond effectively to operational and customer escalations.
Education Requirement Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Operations Management, Supply Chain, or a related field.
Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time
Shift -not applicable-
Location Inteva Products, LLC - Greater Birmingham, AL Operations
Req Number MAN-26-00030
Category Manufacturing/Operations
This position is currently accepting applications. 
