Plant Manager

The Plant Manager provides senior leadership at the plant level and creates a positive environment for all employees across two facilities in Chattanooga TN. This leader drives safety, customer service excellence, best-in-class quality, and high operating efficiency with outstanding manufacturing agility through lean and continuous improvement.

• Manage morale and turnover through building an understanding of what motivates your team members.
• Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development.
• Works directly with local and corporate environmental health and safety professionals to implement, drive and change factory safety culture.
• Plans, implements and oversees manufacturing plant organization policies and goals.
• Manage a multi-site factory while being onsite and remote on a daily basis.
• Leverage KPI's and action plans to ensure effective daily management of operations inclusive of: materials, quality, machining, assembly, shipping/receiving
• Manage full Profit & Loss statement (P&L) while working direct with Planning, Controller and Production to meet financial targets.
• Coordinate activities of departments such as manufacturing, engineering, production control, Planning, materials management, quality, service, logistics and maintenance to ensure customer service excellence, high quality, cost control, and operational efficiency.
• Drive transformational change throughout the plant in coordination with business unit strategies and plans.
• Work with the plant management team to continuously improves manufacturing and other plant processes through Lean, Six-Sigma, and other similar metric driven methods.
• Communicate the vision from senior leadership and set and communicate business objectives for your team that align with this vision.
• Guide and support plant resources in capital investments, material management, and labor & overhead productivity plans.
• Confers with administrative personnel and reviews business activity including related operating and sales reports to ensure customer service excellence, quality, and operational efficiency.
• Works directly with local Human Resources on all employee relations items, employee recruiting, onboarding, discipline and terminations in a professional manner.
  
  

• Requires good people management, motivational and leadership skills.
• Requires exceptional people management, motivational and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated expertise in adding value through leadership by building strong high performing teams and achieving successful outcomes on complicated programs.
• Acts independently or as a member of a project team responsible for providing technical process guidance concerning the business implications of the application of various systems.
• Team player with ability work cross functionally towards measured outcome.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Presentation skills to individual, direct group, full facility, corporate and customers is required.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Outlook Suite including above average mastery of Microsoft Outlook, Teams and Excel.
• Strong organizational skills and detailed oriented.
• Ability to think abstractly to deal with ambiguous/undefined problems
• Must possess a very strong background in Lean Manufacturing.

• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or 10+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ year operations experience involving safety, materials management, machining, manufacturing engineering, quality, production, and warehousing
• 5+ years proven track record of Plant Manager experience and/or progressive experiences in plant management to include: operations, production, value stream, factory management.