Plant Manager - Manufacturing

"Join Our Team as an Experienced Plant Manager – Lead and Innovate in Cutting-Edge Operations for Rugged & Dependable Metal Fabricated Products. Drive Excellence and Shape the Future of Our Industry!"

Plant Manager - Manufacturing Operations.

Summary/Objective

The Plant Manager supervises the group leaders, team leaders, and team members within the manufacturing department for specific areas or shifts. Their duties encompass promoting safety, quality, a positive work environment, fulfilling customer requirements, increasing productivity, cutting costs, upholding cleanliness, enhancing efficiency, offering training, encouraging teamwork, and elevating morale. Particularly in the automotive sector, the plant manager prioritizes error prevention and ongoing improvement over error detection, employing a multidisciplinary strategy in a lean setting to accomplish product realization.

Essential Functions:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Perform strategic planning with corporate, SWOT, market, competitor, environment analysis
• Ensure manufacturing operations are running effectively in the areas of safety, quality, efficiency/productivity, cost, and team member morale. Provide direction and motivation to group leaders.
• Conduct daily manufacturing audits to ensure procedures for safety, quality, equipment, and training are being followed and all aspects of manufacturing are effective including correcting sub-standards.
• Support current products to address continuous improvement in quality, reliability, cost and performance. Strive to improve efficiency and reduce waste, by implementing corrective actions to resolve manufacturing problems once and for all.
• Ensure all departmental procedures are compliant with quality and environmental management systems and programs.
• Monitor daily build sheets and analyze efficiency rates and downtime to ensure customer requirements are being met.
• Coordinate and maintain standardization of processes/methods.
• Implement, monitor, and maintain a clean, organized department.
• Assists Manufacturing Managers in developing, planning, and maintaining the budget including making adjustments to achieve targets.
• Review and track Manufacturing Key Performance Indicators (KPI) including leading problem solving for negative trends or goals not met.
• Participates in management discussions and planning sessions to help formulate cost reduction, product improvement, and problem-solving activities.
• Develops and maintains positive team member relations centered on mutual trust, dignity, respect, fairness, consistency, two-way communication, teamwork, and harmony.
• Provides direction and motivation to team members emphasizing quality, efficiency, productivity, cost reduction, safety and health, and morale.
• Ensures further development of group leaders, team leaders, and team members through performance evaluation, development of training plans, feedback, coaching, corrective action, and cascade training.
• Update team member training matrix and schedule any needed training.

Competencies:

• Communication Proficiency/Coaching.
• Organizational Skills.
• Staffing.
• Initiative.
• Thoroughness.
• Time Management.
• Management Proficiency.
• Financial Planning and Strategy.
• Process Improvement.
• Decision Making.
• Strategic Planning.
• Quality Management/Control
• Work experience in an ISO/IATF organization