DescriptionPosition SummaryThe Plant Manager position is a key leadership role that requires strategic and hands-on business involvement. He/she is responsible for building, coaching, developing, and leveraging the talents of a multidisciplinary team and their performance metrics.
Role Responsibilities- Transition a successful business into a high-performing lean manufacturing organization.
- Utilize Lean Manufacturing concepts, tools, and techniques to deliver quantifiable and sustainable improvements.
- Align operational activities that synchronize processes and a balanced scorecard, which measures financial, operational, and employee engagement goals.
- Identify opportunities that will impact operational goals of improving safety, quality, delivery, production efficiency, job cost, and employee engagement.
- Manage a multidisciplinary team, including responsibility for recruiting, developing, coaching, and managing performance, and establishing departmental procedures and practices.
- Identify improvement opportunities in support areas, including the supply chain, to create financial synergies and enhance our service delivery to the customer.
- Contribute to the development of plant budgets and is accountable to budgetary expectations.
- Builds and fosters positive and collaborative working relationships with internal and external clients and vendors, turning them into advocates and partners.
- Establish and sustain a culture of continuous improvement to identify and implement improvements in work methods, procedures, and operations that increase efficiency, profitability, quality, and safety.
- Responsible for the effective management of personnel directly involved in manufacturing operations. This includes alignment, leadership, talent, engagement, and retention with the objective of building and maintaining a high-performing organization.
- Responsible for the full scope of execution and continual advancement in processes, procedures, equipment, and execution strategies with the plant.
- Coordinate closely with the vice president of manufacturing to provide detailed strategic and tactical input on methods of project manufacturing support and execution.
- Directly involved in production hours estimating and providing constructability and risk analysis on project pursuits.
- Responsible for conducting and implementing all manufacturing processes, including hazard analysis, safety procedures, etc.
Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Science Management, Business Administration, or similar
- 10+ years of relevant manufacturing management experience
- Minimum 5 years of Lean Manufacturing experience
- Six Sigma Black Belt certification is beneficial
- P&L experience
- Strong Leadership competencies with high interpersonal skills
- Excellent time management skills; Operates with a sense of urgency
- Strong lean manufacturing and change management skills
- Passionate about developing team members
- Adaptable and flexible to a changing environment
- A focus on accountability and results-oriented
- Desire for process excellence
- Strong financial and analytical skills
- Strategic and tactical; able to translate strategy into plans and execution
- Demonstrated operational leadership; hands -on management style; effective decision-maker
Minimum Physical Requirements and Accountability- Minimal travel is required
- Requires frequent sitting, standing, and walking
- Noise level can fluctuate from quiet to loud
- Hazards associated with the industry
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.
