Plant General Manager

About the role

This person will lead the Jonesboro, AR facility with a relentless commitment to operational excellence, championing the highest standards of safety, quality, integrity, and performance. This role is responsible for driving the site’s strategic and day-to-day success—delivering on business objectives, optimizing production, and ensuring flawless execution across all functions.

Responsibilities

• Implement the HUB manufacturing strategy in the Jonesboro site and support across the region; providing input on global division strategy.
• Develop business action plans and proactive strategies to increase business profits, customer satisfaction, and operational effectiveness.
• Monitor implementation and tracks any deviations for corrective action.
• Ensure achievement of established targets through oversight and definition of improvement actions as needed.
• Focus on key metrics and is accountable for managing to annual goals for each metric as well as overall budget.
• Focus on achievement of operating cash flow, project on-time and on-cost, requested On-Time Delivery (ROTD), and cost reduction.
• Ensure continuous improvement projects are in place so that the highest level of operational performance can be met.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, employee involvement and open communications.
• Directly responsible for production scheduling, staging and expediting (with the help of others on your team).
• Streamline shop floor activities and improving plant organization and throughput.
• Resolve production problems and developing ways to minimize recurrence.
• Execute HUB quality strategy and drive quality improvement through target setting, monitoring, and benchmarking to continuously improve processes.
• Execute quality management for monitoring and validating day-to-day process control.
• Responsible for meeting customer requirements for OTD, lead time, quality and safety.
• Partner with the Sales/Product Management teams to provide customers with up to date information as well as assist in determining solutions for the customer’s needs.
• Ensure that manufacturing resources implement improvements that address issues identified through Customer Complaint Resolution Process (CCRP), Internal Transactional Partnership Survey (ITPS), Top 5 Quality Initiatives (T5QI), and other voice of the customer initiatives.
• Create and maintain a positive work environment through building effective, capable and high performing teams.
• Develop talent through active coaching and counseling.
• Prepare and report out to HUB Managing Director on facility performance on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Develop and implement operations cadences within facilities to ensure accurate communication, project management and corrective action activities are taking place.
• Recruit new teammates and develop a successful teamwork-oriented culture.

Qualifications

• BS in manufacturing, engineering, or business-related field
• Minimum 8 years progressive experience in the business-related functions and/or 5 years’ experience in production management
• Manufacturing experience is necessary
• Ability to communicate complex concepts via presentations for senior level audiences
• Proven experience in developing teams
• Sound business acumen

Skills

• Change Management experience

Benefits

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• Health, Life & Disability
• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
• Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid.
• Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay
• Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
• Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program
• Retail 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
• Time off
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