Plant Manager
Title: Plant Manager
Reports to: Vice President of Manufacturing
Job Purpose: Ultimately responsible for all operational processes and metrics related to the day-to-day operations of a Phoenix Stamping Group plant.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
Implement strategy for plant specific operational management:
- Manage Plant Production, Maintenance, Tooling, and Material Handling departments to meet or exceed company objectives for safety, quality, cost, and delivery.
- Champion the plants safety program as committee member and help lead root cause and corrective action measures associated with identified opportunities for improvement.
- Coordinate statutory training and compliance.
- Build and monitor production schedules to ensure they are aligned with customer demand and inventory goals.
- Understand and impact plant OEE metrics to include productivity and/or efficiency to positively impact OTD, plant output, and variable labor on the P&L.
- Manage shipping and receiving processes, inventory management including cycle counts, and material handling equipment maintenance.
- Audit compliance with standard work instructions and process control plans to minimize production of defective parts and avoid cost related to poor quality events.
- Review all quality metrics with plant leaders to identify root cause and implement effective corrective actions.
- Periodically evaluate staffing levels to ensure human resources are adequate and properly positioned to support current and future production requirements.
- Oversee the professional development and evaluation of Supervisors, Leads, and direct/indirect labor.
- Identify operator development opportunities and enlist appropriate personnel to assist in development and implementation of training programs to support growth and development.
- Assist in the development and implementation of comprehensive 6S and visual factory tools and continually monitor their effectiveness.
- Maintain knowledge and awareness of contemporary operational theory and methods and provide suitable interpretation to all relevant personnel.
- Understand, budget, and manage requisite plant P&L in order to impact relevant accounts including variable labor and operating expenses.
- Manage plant Quick and Easy Kaizen (QEK) program to support quarterly QEK metric.
Plan, implement, and support operational improvements
- Promote Lean Manufacturing tools and techniques in all production and related processes to increase efficiency and minimize operating costs.
- Use process to gather data and systematically solve problems.
- Actively solicit suggestions and utilize the experience of all employees to develop and implement improvements.
Operate within Company Parameters:
- Champion continuous improvement efforts through knowledge and awareness, training, procurement, and process improvement.
- Maintains an organized, clean, and safe work area using 6S guidelines and participates in audits as required
- Liaise with other functional groups and departments to support operational capabilities, changes, and improvements and to communicate timelines and deliverables to complete projects on time.
- Ensure activities meet and integrate with organizational requirements for quality management, health and safety, legal stipulations, environmental policies and general duty of care
- Execute all responsibilities according to lawful and ethical standards as established by company policies and procedures
Key Measures of Success:
- Safety Recordables (RIR)
- OEE
- Continuous Improvement Activity (6S, QEK)
- Quality Metrics (COPQ)
- OTD
- Operating Expense to Budget
- Gross Margin %
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in a technical field
- Minimum of 5 years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment
- Background in metal stamping and metal fabrication manufacturing preferred
- Knowledge of principles and practices of lean manufacturing
- P&L experience to understand and positively impact financial performance
- Experience maintaining quality systems (ISO 9001:2015 preferred)
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and computer skills including data analysis from Excel and ERP reporting
- Demonstrated ability to schedule within and through ERP systems
- Exceptional communication skills and leadership experience
Additional Information
Phoenix Stamping Group, LLC offers a drug-free work place along with a competitive salary and benefits package. We are an equal opportunity employer (EEO), dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, age, sex, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin and in compliance with ADAAA.