Plant Manager Jobs

Plant Manager

Reports to: VP, Manufacturing - Experience in made-to-order. Assembly manufacturing for a large facility

The Plant Manager is responsible for directing, managing, and monitoring all activities related to the safe and efficient

production of high-quality trailers. The Plant Manager works with his staff to properly manage the people, financial and

physical resources for the plant and ensure compliance with federal, state, and company policies in regard to safety,

environmental, and other regulatory organizations. Identifies strategic challenges and solutions to achieve the business

strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure employee compliance with all safety rules and requirements.

• Meet or exceed plant goals (Safety, People, Quality, Throughput, Cost, etc.).

• Ensure plant compliance with all federal and state and company-mandated regulations.

• P&L responsibility for plant and manages budget.

• Develop and implement strategies for optimizing ROI on all plant resources.

• Implement and manage company initiatives: Behavior Based Safety, Lean Manufacturing, etc.

• Define, analyze, and prioritize business requirements; Identify production solutions.

• Participate in strategic activities to ensure the viability of company resources.

• Manage all site operations to ensure ample resources to accomplish plant performance and profit goals.

• Identify areas for capital improvement in both the processes and systems; continuously research new system

functionality/trends and best practices.

• Interface with sales as appropriate.

• Resolve intra-plant functional issues.

• Ensure documentation of standard processes/procedures.

• Monitor interactions/interfaces with both internal and outsourced systems.

• Manage and respond to data requests; assemble, analyze, and format data into useable reports.

• Monitor the auditing of plant data to ensure compliance and data integrity; detect, troubleshoot, and resolve data

issues.

• Represent the plant with key vendors and customers.

• Acts as the change agent of the plant.

• Lead and ensure appropriate hiring, coaching, training, and development of employees; form high-performance teams

and motivate all employees across his organization.

• Defines the right processes to create efficient workflows and measures performance, defines and pursues

improvement opportunities.

• Review and approve employee actions in terms of hiring, promotion, discipline, or termination.

• Assist with assessment, recognition, retention, and employee development initiatives.

• Participate in project management activities, including work planning and issue tracking.

• Broaden personal knowledge in functional areas including HR, Accounting, Procurement, etc.

• Other duties as assigned.

Competencies:

• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets

first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind;

establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top

performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

• Integrity & Trust: Is widely trusted; is seen as a direct, truthful individual; can present the unvarnished truth in an

appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal

gain.

• Functional Technical Skills: Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of

accomplishment.

• Organizational Agility: Knowledgeable about how organizations work; knows how to get things done both through

formal channels and the informal network; understands the origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices, and

procedures; understands the cultures of organizations.

• Managing Through Systems: Can design practices, processes, and procedures which allow managing from a distance; is

comfortable letting things manage themselves without intervening; can make things work through others without

being there; can impact people and results remotely.

• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in his/her team;

shares win and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success

in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

• Developing Direct Reports: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development

discussions; is aware of each direct report’s career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them;

pushes direct reports to accept developmental moves; will take direct reports who need work; is a people builder.

Job Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (e.g., Business Administration, Engineering or related discipline); MBA

desired.

• Experience: 5-10+ years of relevant work experience leading similar organizations or equivalent combination of

education and training.

• Skills: Ability to maintain strict confidentiality.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office products, including advanced data functions in Excel.

• Excellent analytical skills; Ability to collect and analyze data and present findings.

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Solid ability in identifying and resolving problems in a timely, effective manner.

• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal skills.

• Extensive experience in Lean Manufacturing is desired.

• Demonstrate understanding of an effective safety culture.

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited

standardization exists.

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and

the general public.

• Strong process thinking to identify the best and most efficient processes and how to implement process improvements, not

only in manufacturing but across all functional areas.

• Strong ability to coach and lead continuous improvement sessions.

• Ability to build internal and external relationships.

• Ability to identify talent and motivate people.

• Travel: Travel as needed.