Plant Manager

About the role

The Plant Manager (PM) oversees manufacturing operations to ensure safety, quality, efficiency, and adherence to customer requirements. They provide guidance and motivation to direct reports, emphasizing safety, quality, efficiency, and morale.

Responsibilities

• Operate manufacturing operations to ensure safety, quality, efficiency, and adherence to customer requirements.
• Provide guidance and motivation to group leaders, emphasizing safety, quality, efficiency, and morale.
• Conduct daily audits to ensure compliance with safety, quality, and training protocols, addressing any deviations promptly.
• Lead the development of group leaders and implement corrective actions for manufacturing issues.
• Ensure departmental procedures align with quality and environmental management systems and coordinate process standardization efforts to improve efficiency and consistency.
• Identify and eliminate manufacturing inefficiencies, leading continuous improvement initiatives. Monitor and analyze key performance indicators to address any deviations and drive improvement.
• Aid in budget development and adjustment to meet production targets and cost objectives.
• Foster positive team member relations through feedback, coaching, and training. Develop and maintain training plans to enhance team members' skills and capabilities.
• Manage working conditions, including exposure to fumes, moving mechanical parts, and vibration, while standing or walking for several hours at a time.

Qualifications

• 2 years of college preferred and a minimum of a high school education and 5+ years of factory-related experience.
• Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office including D365.
• Management / Leadership experience at least 5+ years required.

Essential Functions

• Ensure operations are running effectively in the areas of safety, quality, efficiency / productivity, cost, inventory levels and team member morale.
• Provide direction and motivation to your team focusing on safety, quality, efficiency, cost, and morale.
• Conduct daily production area audits to ensure procedures for safety, quality, equipment, and training are being followed and all aspects of manufacturing are effective including correcting sub-standards.
• Develop and maintain training plans to enhance team members' skills and capabilities.
• Monitor daily build sheets and analyze efficiency rates and downtime to ensure customer requirements are being met. Lead identification of manufacturing problems and eliminate waste.
• Develop and lead a manufacturing continuous improvement system. Implement, monitor, and maintain a clean, organized department.
• Assist team in developing, planning, maintaining the budget and adjusting as needed to achieve targets. Review and track Manufacturing Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
• Participate in management discussions and planning sessions to help formulate cost reduction, product improvement, and problem-solving activities.
• Develop and maintain 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.
• Ensure 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.