Plant Manager

Job Summary/Overview

The Plant Manager provides senior leadership at plant level and creates a positive environment for all associates. This leader drives customer service excellence, best-in-class quality, and high operating efficiency with outstanding manufacturing agility through lean and continuous improvement.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Plans, implements and oversees manufacturing plant organization policies and goals. 
• Leverage KPI’s and action plans to ensure effective daily management of operations inclusive of materials, quality, machining, assembly, shipping/receiving.
• Coordinate activities of departments such as manufacturing, engineering, production control, materials management, quality, service, and maintenance to ensure customer service excellence, high quality, cost control, and operational efficiency.
• Drive transformational change throughout the plant in coordination with business unit strategies and plans.
• Work with the plant management team to continuously improves manufacturing and other plant processes through Lean, Six-Sigma, and other similar metric driven methods.
• Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development. 
• Manage morale and turnover through building an understanding of what motivates your team members.
• Communicate the vision from senior leadership and set and communicate business objectives for your team that align with this vision.
• Manage the day-to-day activities and motivate team members to succeed in a fast-paced collaborative agile environment centered on software development.
• Guide and support plant resources in capital investments, material management, and labor & overhead productivity plans.
• Confers with administrative personnel and reviews business activity including related operating and sales reports to ensure customer service excellence, quality, and operational efficiency.
   

Knowledge, Skills, Competencies, and Abilities

• Demonstrated expertise in adding value through leadership by building strong high performing teams and achieving successful outcomes on complicated programs.
• Acts independently or as a member of a project team responsible for providing technical process guidance concerning the business implications of the application of various systems.
• Demonstrated success in a high mix ETO manufacturing environment of products with complex BOM structure.
• A team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and detailed oriented.
• Ability to think abstractly to deal with ambiguous/undefined problems
• Must possess a very strong background in Lean Manufacturing. Requires good people management, motivational and leadership skills.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or 10+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ year operations experience involving materials management, machining, manufacturing engineering, quality, production, and warehousing.
• 5+ years proven track record of Plant Manager experience and/or progressive experiences in plant management to include operations, production, value stream, factory manager.