
Plant Manager - Leeds, AL
- Leeds, AL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop Staff and culture within the business unit dedicated to the highest levels of safety, quality, and customer service thru a collaborative team environment.
- Manage and direct overall manufacturing activities of the Business Unit.
- Maintains a safe working environment consistent with all local, state and OSHA requirements.
- Originates, measures, and improves key indicators for the business unit (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory and Cost).
- Ensures the quality systems are established and maintained.
- Continues to enhance the LEAN culture. Ensures the production area maintains a clean, well-organized environment through “continuous improvement” and 5S. Implements and drives “continuous improvement” activities by eliminating non valued added activities in the manufacturing process (waste elimination).
- Develop budgets and forecasts. Approves expenditures for supplies, materials, and human resources, ensuring that materials, labor and equipment are used efficiently to meet productivity and customer requirements.
- Ensures production capacities are sufficient to meet short and long term needs.
- Establishes work requirements and ensures production schedules are met.
- Provide thought leadership and direction for highly MTO/ETO production facility unitizing SAP.
- Bachelor's degree; MBA preferred
- Experience as a Plant Manager, Director of Operations or Operations Manager - preferably in a medium to heavy manufacturing environment and prefer low volume/high mix environment.
- Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Excellent materials planning skills
- Excellent communication and training skills
- Dynamic, results oriented, metric driven, disciplined leadership
- Staff development and engagement skills
- Welding, Fabricating, Warehouse & Logistics experience
- SAP experience
- Experience working in a union environment
- Operational Excellence or Lean Certification
- TPM Experience