Plant Director

Position Summary

The Plant Director leads all aspects of operations at a multi-campus or complex facility, focusing on safety, production, quality, engineering, supply chain, and customer service. This role drives continuous improvement initiatives to ensure operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and profitability.

Principle Responsibilities

• Foster a culture where safety, quality, schedule, and cost are prioritized with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Drive rapid, significant, and sustainable improvements in Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost metrics.
• Oversee daily operations of the plant, ensuring optimal safety, quality, delivery, cost, and inventory performance.
• Develop and execute strategic plans aligned with company goals, including compliance with ISO, FDA, EPA, OSHA, and other regulatory requirements.
• Lead and manage New Product Introduction (NPI) execution, ensuring on-time, on-quality, and on-cost results.
• Ensure effective allocation of resources to meet customer-driven priorities and optimize operational efficiency.
• Manage financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, revenue planning, cost control, and profitability improvement.
• Identify opportunities to reduce costs in direct and indirect labor, manufacturing overhead, and inventory levels while enhancing operational efficiency.
• Establish and review key operational metrics and performance indicators to ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Drive a Lean Operating System culture (5S, SMED, TPM, etc.) and lead the roadmap for achieving breakthrough performance.
• Conduct regular KPI reviews with the plant team to ensure goal attainment and prioritize implementation strategies.
• Continually benchmark and implement best practices to enhance efficiency and performance.
• Build, coach, and mentor a high-performance team, fostering morale and professional growth across multiple functions.
• Develop leadership and management capabilities within the team to sustain long-term success.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, regulators, and corporate teams.
• Collaborate with sales, marketing, engineering, and other functional teams to deliver exceptional products and customer satisfaction.

Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or related field. MBA preferred.
• 8+ years manufacturing operations leadership experience.
• Demonstrated track record of significant performance improvement through the successful development of a lean culture, and implementation of the tools.
• Strong developer of people and teams, believing it a critical component in driving organizational change and effectiveness.
• Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities:
• Highly customer responsive and entrepreneurial.
• Resourceful, combining strong manufacturing and technical abilities with good overall management acumen.
• Strong financial acumen.
• Effectively deploys resources to key priorities.
• Has, and sets, high expectations for him/herself and the organization; driven by metrics and countermeasures.
• Selects great people and makes changes quickly when required.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to effectively communicate throughout all levels of the organization.
• Possesses a high sense of urgency.
• Low-Ego/High-Confidence.
• Thinks expansively/innovatively and targets breakthrough performance, not simply incremental gain.
• High degree of credibility to be convincing and persuasive.
• Medical device industry experience, a plus.