Job Description

Essential Job Functions:

• Ensure product launch objectives, project capital needs and customer requirements are met on time and adherence to strict safety protocols.
• Responsible for the plant’s performance in manufacturing, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, quality and delivery of product and maintaining quality and environmental certifications.
• Passionate about coaching and training plant personnel. Effective at setting, evaluating and inspiring individual and team goals that develop people to promote a positive “get-it-done” culture.
• Strategic thinker and situational leader; plan, direct, and manage the entire operation, ensuring the
• development and implementation of efficient operational processes to meet current and future business requirements.
• Organize and manage the plant Operation/Production teams to meet designated targets and objectives, while using them effectively and efficiently. Set clear expectations, design practical processes and procedures that ensure accountability and KPI’s.
• Create and implement initiatives that drive optimization and improvements in the performance of the overall operations input, throughputs and outputs, focused production planning, scheduling, and execution.
• Work with managers within the plant to collect and analyze data to find ways to improve overall manufacturing capacity, teaching managers to schedule, plan, organize, direct, and run optimum day-to-day operations that meet or exceed internal expectations.
• Work with department managers to implement and maintain preventative maintenance programs and incorporate production floor organization and plant cleanliness among all plant personnel.
• Extensive knowledge of business and management principles (budgeting, production planning, material flow, inventory management, resource allocation and human resource planning).
• Increase production, asset capacity and flexibility, while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards.
• Implement cost-effective systems of control over capital, operating expenditures, manpower, wages, and salaries.
• Establish and implement short and long-range department goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures for the entire operations/production teams. Monitoring overall plant performance for production and quality standards.
• Provide direction, development, and leadership for all operational departments; ensure team members’ roles and responsibilities are clear and understood.
• Partner with Scheduler and/or Materials Manager to ensure coordination/linking of all schedules and inventories are efficient, effective, and optimized, including source selection.
• Champion plant safety policies and procedures. Effectively communicate with the company Health, Safety and Environmental Policy and Procedures and manage /Executive Safety Committees.
• Assist in the analysis and interpretation of ERP system information.
• Encourage open communication at all levels within the organization as well as the customer base.

Leadership and Management:

• Energize and engage employees through their managers by ensuring they understand and can execute operational fulfillment goals. Must be able to communicate job expectations internally; plan, monitor, appraise, and review job contributions; enforcing policies and procedures.
• Set monitor, and follow-up on operational and/or performance goals for each department which are aggressive, achievable, and tied to long-term goals ensuring progress is being made.
• Track and measure productivity by analyzing performance data, financial data, and activity reports, follow-up on operational/production performance goals/KPIs for each department.
• Ensure all department managers are fully informed of operational objectives. Maintain an operational atmosphere of accountability.
• Conduct standard meetings with department managers to ensure that priorities are clear, and coordination is good.
• Solve any inter-departmental issues that arise before any problems hamper the daily operations. Facilitate conflict resolution to ensure objective fulfillment and timely resolution to site specific problems and opportunities.
• Ensure the operations team has the necessary resources to effectively meet short and long-term goals.
• Establish and adjust organizational structure so that it supports the business’s objectives.
• As the key point (face) of management to employees, have good relations and represent management with encouragement and professionalism.

Qualifications: 

• 7– 10 years of senior management experience including management position within manufacturing operations.
• Manufacturing of automotive products such as composites, plastics, class-A injection molded parts.
• Proven track record as Plant Manager.
• Previous experience/best practices implementing and using continuous improvement/lean tools such as Six Sigma, 5-S, Lean Manufacturing, Transactional Lean, etc. to drive improvement.
• Proven ability in creating accountability at the management level and leading by example.
• Strong team building, decision-making and people management skills
• Direct P&L ownership and experience creating and managing budgets.
• Proven ability to start or stop all production or plant operations, and ability to schedule necessary changes with production, logistics, materials, etc.
• Broad knowledge of OSHA and workplace health and safety programs.
• “Own it” mentality, high energy, proactive team player with a contagious desire that inspires the team toward shared goals and purpose.
• A highly organized, committed, and analytical thinker who is used to substantial autonomy while ensuring that the executive leadership team is engaged.
• Must be articulate, resourceful, and focused. Must exhibit patience, perseverance, and persuasiveness.
• Solid understanding of regulatory requirements for operating plants.
• Knowledgeable of safety, quality, productivity, demand planning, inventory, and resource allocation processes.

Education:   

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, finance, or management required. MBA highly preferred; or equivalent experience.