*what you will do*
the plant manager is responsible for all day-to-day operations and activities required to produce final product at the plant facility by driving processes and coordinating the activities of the production department with support departments and ensuring that all plant goals are met in a timely and cost-effective manner.
*how you will do it*
- build and develop teams and team members.
- allocate and manage resources (labor, equipment and materials) to optimize production output with respect to delivery, quality and cost.
- lead teams in achieving goals in safety, quality, cost, delivery and other plant goals.
- coordinate activities of various departments and/or shifts to ensure that all areas are working on the appropriate tasks.
- develop strategic operating, capital and other plans to improve effectiveness of operation.
- adjust plant capacity to meet customer demand.
- work with team to develop and implement materials management strategy (make/buy, kanban/mrp, master scheduling time fences, inventory levels, vendor stocking).
- maintain effective working relationship and communication with all departments and sees to the professional development of all assigned personnel.
- lead large capital projects from conception to completion.
- ensure departmental compliance with sarbanes-oxley and other internal controls.
- establish budgets and operating targets.
- participate in product team meetings to help effectively improve the product line performance.
analyze operational performance and develop priorities for improvements.
- drive safety performance within the plant to achieve the jci gold safety status (goal: no recordables or lost time injuries).
perform safety observations/inspections as required.
*what we look for*
*required*:
- bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- minimum of ten (10) years of experience as an operations manager or plant manager in a manufacturing facility.
- demonstrated practice of servant leadership.
- proficiency using microsoft office.
- demonstrated initiative and willingness to seek out improvements through the use of lean manufacturing tools; develop plans that meet a variety of goals simultaneously and be able to change these plans as business conditions change; use analysis tools to determine opportunities for improvement.
- ability to work additional hours and varied working hours to effectively manage people across all shifts.
*preferred*:
- experience with lean manufacturing as well as other training in formal problem solving and operational analysis.
- experienced with sap, mapics or other erp/mrp system.