Plant Manager

About the role

To ensure the health and welfare of employees within the facility, comply with the code of conduct, meet and/or exceed contractual customer quality and delivery expectations, and create an environment that drives continuous improvement and employee engagement.

Responsibilities

• Effectively communicate with all internal customers, plant management and team members; maintain positive employee relations; listen to issues and concerns and display leadership in driving accountability and responsiveness.
• Maintain open, honest relationships with fellow team members; treat all team members with dignity and respect.
• Actively create/sustain a strong talent management process and committee for all people. Create a dynamic learning culture in which people grow within and beyond the facility
• Think strategically and systematically; work towards long-term success, as well as facilities’ short-term success
• Problem solve and make decisions by applying analytical and creative thinking skills, as well as strong business and sense of urgency
• Complete face-to-face reviews and individual development plans with staff-level employees annually
• Ensure that meetings are transparent, candid, constructive, and overall up-lifting. Connects what the people are doing to success and their customer’s success
• Actively support and participate in the application of organizational principles, tools, and processes (i.e., layered process audits) creating an environment in which the plant principles and tools thrive.
• Review income statement daily. Adjust staffing, approve salaried overtime, and discretionary spending plans as required to flex with volume.
• Monthly review and sign off on forecasts including income statement, and balance sheet.
• Lead budgeting/AOP process at plant level
• Lead plant-level review of operating metrics once a month.
• Review and sign off on capital and startup costs in quotes.
• Review weekly trend before submitting to finance.
• Support Quality Management Team to ensure compliance to client quality systems.
• Ensure key quality metrics are reviewed daily covering customer quality performance, manufacturing process driven scrap, and significant impacts to FTT performance as per guidance in Operating System standards.
• Support Operations Team in ensuring completion per assigned plant schedule.
• Ensure monthly management reviews, including quality metrics, customer scorecard performance, cost of poor quality, and review of product launch/safe launch activity.
• Support and ensure cooperation between departments in addressing issues.
• Drive production to ensure delivery of customer requirements is met. Communicate any issues and action to resolve.
• Review capacity at least quarterly; constraints in capacity should be escalated.
• Review and approve any premium freight.
• Review inventory performance on a weekly basis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or Business-Related Field preferred.
• Minimum of 7+ years of progressively more responsible supervisory / managerial and leadership experience in high volume manufacturing operation (Automotive experience required).
• Strong communication skills, performance, and proficiency management, staffing management, time management, coordination, training, financial planning, efficient in standards development, sound in decision making and strategic management.
• Excellent understanding of continuous improvement concepts including Six Sigma, Lean, value stream mapping, etc.