Plant Manager

Responsibilities

• Owes the Plant Bowler metrics in collaboration with cross-functional departments including HR, Quality, Supply Chain, and Finance ensuring alignment with plant-wide performance goals.
• Led SQDIP initiatives, focusing on Safety, Quality, Delivery (customer request date), Inventory, and Productivity to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Conducts daily Gemba walks and SQDIP meetings, engaging teams at all levels to identify issues, remove roadblocks and foster a culture of accountability and problem-solving.
• Deploys and implements a safety program, cascading responsibilities to departmental levels and cultivating production floor safety instructors to sustain a proactive safety culture.
• Drive operational excellence using Lean methodologies (4M principle, Continuous, MTO, Kanban), ensuring efficient use of man, machine, and material.
• Identifies and executes cost reduction projects focused on eliminating process waste, improving output, enhancing product quality, reducing lead times, and increasing overall productivity.
• Responds to market and customer dynamics by adjusting operational strategies, controlling labor and overhead costs, and maintaining an agile and cost-effective production environment.
• Mentors and coaches teams and individuals, identifying strengths and development opportunities.
• Works closely with HR to cultivate talent, build high-performing teams and support succession planning.

Qualifications

• 10 or more years of experience in manufacturing operations in a leadership role.
• Experience with complex manufacturing ideally in an international company.
• Proven track record in Lean manufacturing, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Strong leadership skills that promote accountability as well as development all while striving towards achievement of bowler and plant metrics.
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite, ERP software (ex: Microsoft BC, SAP Oracle) preferred.

Other Skills and Abilities

• Progressive, flexible, and team oriented; possess results-based style and skill set with strong influencing skills.
• Able to communicate effectively, both written and verbally, to direct and motivate team.
• Strong listening skills to understand the needs of the workforce.
• Able to effectively manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously.
• Able to anticipate, negotiate, and manage conflicts, problems, changing situations and deadlines.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base Salary: $130,000-$150,000 annually, exempt.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and disability insurance.
• Paid parental leave.

About Filtration Group

Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we are driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry. We are committed to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and in which our leaders exhibit a strong bias for action. The Company began in 2009 and has rapidly grown organically and through a thoughtful acquisition strategy to be a global leader in the highly attractive filtration industry. Filtration Group has the broadest portfolio of solutions in the industry and has had a particular focus on building a leading platform of solutions focused on the Life Sciences and Indoor Air Quality end markets which are rapidly growing in the current market environment. Filtration Group produces mission critical products with high replacement rates. Over 80 percent of the Company’s revenue comes from replacement / consumable products, many of which are specified into customer’s products or processes. With revenues over $2 billion, Filtration Group is consistently recognized as the fastest growing and one of the largest filtration businesses in the world and has a global footprint of 141 facilities in 28 countries. Filtration Group has over 10,000 employees who are united in their Mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive.