Plant Manager

Fisher-Barton, Inc.

$100K — $120K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business administration, operations management, manufacturing engineering or related field.
  • 10 years of manufacturing operations experience, including 5 years in a managerial role.
  • Strong customer orientation with exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Demonstrated leadership in planning, manufacturing systems and continuous improvement.
  • Experience working with customers and vendors.

Responsibilities

  • Drive a safety-first culture and ensure compliance with safety procedures.
  • Oversee production scheduling and inventory control for efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency and reduce costs.
  • Develop and maintain production reports, metrics, and KPIs.
  • Make recommendations on capital purchases and manage capital expenditure requests.
  • Partner with leadership to optimize production schedules for target completion dates.
  • Lead performance management for plant employees, identifying coaching opportunities and making employment decisions.

Benefits

  • Employee ownership structure, enhancing motivation and commitment.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance options.
  • Company paid short and long-term disability insurance for financial security.
  • Generous open paid time off (PTO) policy alongside 10 paid holidays.
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match to support employee savings.
  • Additional health spending accounts (HSA and FSA) to manage healthcare expenses effectively.
  • Bonus program to reward individual and company performance.
Full Job Description
The Plant Manager will oversee all daily operations of the plant from production and manufacturing to ensuring policies and procedures are followed. Oversees and coordinates manufacturing operations to meet production needs. Responsible for manufacturing process improvement, development of the manufacturing organization, increasing levels of customer and employee satisfaction/engagement, safety, quality, cost and delivery of product. Responsible for manufacturing process improvement, development of the manufacturing organization, increasing levels of customer and employee satisfaction.

You will do this by:
  • Driving a safety-first culture; continuously improves and ensures compliance with all safety procedures.
  • Directly leading and overseeing the scheduling and flow for production and inventory control to ensure cost effectiveness, efficient labor utilization/performance and meets quality standards.
  • Leading continuous improvement initiatives to drive improved efficiencies, reduce costs and improve the work environment.
  • Developing and maintaining reports on production data, metrics and KPIs which drive and measure operational performance, Safety, People, Quality, Delivery, Cost.
  • Making sound recommendations on capital purchases including development of Capital Equipment Expenditure Requests and justifications.
  • Partnering with the local leadership team to ensure the execution of the production schedules are optimized to the targeted completion dates, supporting Fisher Barton's SIOP process
  • Leading performance management for plant employees; identifying and addressing areas of needed coaching and guidance
  • Creating an environment where driven individuals and teams want to join.
  • Empowering his/her team (direct and indirect) to take risks while measuring their performance and holding them accountable for results.
  • Making employment decisions (hiring, discipline, training, promotions, transfers) which support business operations and company core values.
  • Ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations.
  • Performing additional duties as assigned


The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature of the job and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of position responsibilities. Responsibilities and impact may crossover technical fields/functions.

You are the kind of person who is:
  • An ambitious, strong leader with demonstrated skills in machining and managing high-performance teams
  • Highly detail-oriented with strong verbal, written, and presentation skills (one-on-one and group settings)
  • Able to work cross functionally at all levels of the organization
  • Able to drive and successfully lead projects of significance across multiple departments
  • Analytical and enjoys problem-solving
  • Able to identify solutions for process improvement
  • Flexible and can adapt to changing requirements, schedules, deadlines, and priorities

Required Qualifications:
  • Minimum of a bachelor's degree in business administration, operations management, manufacturing engineering or related field.
  • Ten Years manufacturing Operations with five years at a managerial level of responsibility
  • Strong customer orientation. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills is a must
  • Proven leadership skills in planning, manufacturing systems and processes and continuous improvement
  • Past experience working with customers and vendors
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills is a must.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in business administration, Management, Engineering, or related field.
  • Experience using Epicor
  • Machining experience is a must. Machine shop environment, milling, turning, grinding and heat treat is highly desirable.
  • Lean or other Continuous Improvement experience
  • ISO experience

Physical | Visual Demands:

The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with impairments to perform the essential functions.
  • Occasionally required to sit and use hands to grip, handle, or feel.
  • Regularly required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.
  • Occasionally required lifting up to 50 pounds.
  • Visual acuity to inspect products and machinery.
    • Some travel to each business unit for training purposes
    • Time will be spent sitting in front of a computer screen
    • Spending 80% of your time on the production floor

Work Environment:
  • Manufacturing environment, loud noises.
  • Machine Shop
  • Foundry

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Location: 5200 Zenith Parkway | Loves Park | IL | 61111

Shift: 1st Shift with flexibility based on business needs

Benefits Package:
  • Employee Owned
  • Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Company Paid Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Company Paid Employee, Spouse and Dependent Life Insurance
  • Voluntary Critical Illness Insurance
  • Prescription Drug Benefits
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company Match
  • 10 Paid Holidays
  • Open PTO
  • HSA and FSA (Health and/or Dependent Flexible Spending Account)
  • Bonus Program
  • And More!

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