Plant Manager

Plant Manager

SUMMARY:

Prominent manufacturing company for commercial, automotive, and aerospace products with corporate offices and operations in Northern Michigan seeks a Plant Manager/Value Stream Leader for our Northeast Michigan site. Must be able to develop and maintain an effective organization with capable and talented staff and management. The Plant Manager will lead day-to-day operations.

This is a hands-on manufacturing operations position for a highly motivated, experienced and energetic manufacturing manager. The selected candidate will report to corporate executive management.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Present at weekly production review meetings. Report performance against targets.

· Participate in strategic planning. Set goals and objectives to meet strategic plan and customer expectations.

· Ensure production metrics are completed accurately, in a timely manner, and reported to the site employees.

· Initiate and lead discussions with critical customers to resolve issues.

· Keep employees informed regarding items that are communicated from corporate.

· Complete employee performance evaluations. Provide develop plans to support growth by all staff members.

· Review production standards and methods with the appropriate production support staff and determine alternate ways to run production to improve throughput and operator efficiency. Utilize improvement tools (Lean, Six Sigma) to make data based decisions.

· Mentor others on production management skills and Lean tools.

· Manage site spending within budget. Provide financial update at monthly review.