Plant Manager - Automotive

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Stable profitable automotive supplier is hiring a Plant Manager to oversee their fastpaced manufacturing facility. The Plant Manager will report to the VP of Operations and will be responsible for the following duties:

• Fostering a production environment that is focused on safety and quality initiatives
• Developing coaching mentoring and leading direct and indirect reports
• Overseeing safety quality production and materials
• Champion the safety initiatives of the plant
• Establishing a continuous improvement culture by identifying process improvements to decrease scrap increase efficiencies and save the organization money
• Fostering relationships with support and production staff to attain plant goals and make needed improvements
• Owning the P&L responsibility on a monthly quarterly and yearend basis including monitoring expense control
• Monitoring and improving plant analytics standard operating procedures and production metrics
• Analyzing and presenting production reports and metrics to the management team
• Assisting with staffing the plant and disciplinary actions
• Identifying potential CapEx projects and working with engineering to oversee projects
• Monitoring and improving production KPIs and metrics via the ERP system
• Other duties as directed by management

Candidates should enjoy leading and developing staff working in a teamoriented environment communicating with internal and external departments in order to support and improve production goals holding their team accountable overseeing CI activities to enhance the process and spending up to 30% of their time on the production floor. The company offers competitive medical dental and vision benefits (available day one of employment) exceptional 401K match paid holidays shortterm and longterm disability life insurance HSA contribution vacation and bonus potential!

REQUIREMENTS for the Plant Manager:
1. Bachelors degree; ideally in a technical field
2. At least 510 years in a similar production or plant operations leadership position
3. Strong continuous improvement background with proven examples of scrap reductions efficiency improvements etc.
4. Experience overseeing production at a Tier I or Tier II automotive supplier
5. Experience overseeing direct and indirect reports
6. Experience overseeing multiple facets of operations examples include production quality engineering maintenance materials HR etc.
7. Experience overseeing multishift production environments
8. ERP experience
9. Ability to create and present detailed presentations to the plant and management teams
10. Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office/Microsoft Excel

Skills preferred but NOT required:
1. Strong quality and/or engineering background
2. Power BI
3. Lean and/or Six Sigma Certifications
4. Management of CapEx projects

Why go to work for this organization:
1. Slated for growth
2. There is an approved CapEx budget for the plant
3. Company is focused on diversifying their business
4. Excellent medical benefits available day one of employment
5. Bonus potential and exceptional 401K match
6. Work/life balance averaging 50 hours per week
7. Clean facility and wellmaintained

The company is not offering relocation for this position; candidates are requested to be local to the Rochester Hills MI area.

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