Plant Manager

Essential Job Functions - Establishes effective plant culture by ensuring individual accountability, creating a performance management focus, and encouraging a high level of employee engagement. - Prepares the plant budget and manages the business by controlling costs and meeting expected financial results. - Develops a strategic business plan for the local site. - Directs production operations to ensure cost effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency with prescribed quality and other performance standards. - Ensures proper methods and promptness of communication to employees, customers, and internal/external business associates. - Organizes exchanges of best practices with other plants. Communicate and collaborates with all centralized business units to achieve overall business objectives. - Leads the performance of the plant by operating with a set of standards and meeting or exceeding key performance targets in areas of safety, customer complaints, customer deliveries, production efficiency, waste, inventory control, lean savings, cash and operating profit. - Develops and implements operating policies and procedures consistent with Corporate Policy. - Researches, evaluates, and recommends investments in technology, machines, equipment, systems or other assets, that will enhance the plant's effectiveness in the areas of safety, quality and both production and labor efficiency. - Participates in the resolution and prevention of customer complaints and promotes solid customer relations in partnership with the commercial organization. - Collaborates with New Product Development and Engineering from project development through delivery to customer. - Select, lead, and develop plant staff through coaching, mentoring and training to deliver the business results and for plant succession planning. - Ensures strict compliance with all safety, environmental, local and Federal regulations by all plant personnel and visitors. - Champions and supports all EHS and Lean programs. Responsible for establishing both the safety and lean culture in the plant. - Champions and supports all Quality programs. Responsible for establishing quality lean culture in the plant. EDUCATION - Bachelor's degree in related field and 5-7 years plant/general management experience in a manufacturing environment EXPERIENCE: - Minimum 5 years in various functions in a manufacturing environment - Minimum 5 years in a leadership, change management role - Must have experience leading a similar sized manufacturing plant (100-250 employees) SKILLS - Ability to analyze an income statement to improve operational performance and business results - Ability to drive results in production operations and other key areas - Ability to present complex business information to all levels - Proven skills of leadership/influencing/collaboration - Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) COMPETENCIES - Understanding of New Product Development cycle and processes - Solid experience with good manufacturing practices (GMP), SPC, and Quality Systems - Experience in Lean principles application - Strategic thinking, decision maker through implementation - Ability to work in a matrix organization - People development and identifying talent - Ability to create and implement change to support corporate strategy - Excellent communication, verbally and written - Demonstrated leadership practices (leading, coaching, vision, employee relations) OTHER Ability to travel up to 20%; domestic and international LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMER The above jo