Manufacturing Plant Manager

The Plant Manager is responsible for leading all operational functions within a large highvolume manufacturing facility ensuring safe efficient and highquality production in alignment with the ASD Lean Operating System. This role owns the plants Safety Quality Delivery Cost and Cash (SPQDCC) performance and serves as the senior operational leader for a site with multiple value streams high throughput and significant intercompany transfers.

The Plant Manager provides enterpriselevel leadership aligning Focus Factory Managers support functions and frontline teams to deliver sustained results at scale. This role requires advanced capability in managing complexity crosssite coordination and large leadership teams while driving cultural transformation and performance excellence.

Core Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership & Plant Management

• Provide overall leadership for all plant operations including EHS manufacturing materials maintenance quality and engineering across multiple production areas or value streams.
• Translate corporate objectives into actionable plant strategies supporting high sales volume throughput demands and intercompany transfer requirements.
• Drive execution of the ASD Lean Operating System at scale ensuring consistency across value streams shifts and support functions.
• Serve as the primary interface between the facility enterprise leadership and peer plant managers on networkwide capacity transfer and loadbalancing decisions.
• Develop and manage a complex operating budget balancing productivity cost working capital and capital investment priorities.

2. Safety & Environmental Stewardship

• Establish and sustain a Zero Harm culture across a large employee population and multishift operation.
• Lead visible safety engagement through routine Gemba walks Tier escalation and executivelevel incident reviews.
• Ensure full regulatory compliance (OSHA EPA local) while proactively managing risk in a highcomplexity environment.
• Partner with EHS & Sustainability leaders to drive energy reduction environmental performance and enterprise initiatives.
• Deliver sustained improvement in TRIR nearmiss reporting and corrective action effectiveness across the site.

3. Quality & Customer Value

• Own plantlevel quality performance for a highvolume multicustomer manufacturing operation.
• Ensure robust execution of QCPs standard work and layered audits across all value streams.
• Drive systemic FPY improvement warranty reduction and defect prevention at scale.
• Partner with Quality and Engineering on advanced problem solving systemic risk mitigation and customer recovery plans.
• Lead Voice of the Customer deployment for complex customer portfolios and intercompany supply chains.

4. Delivery Productivity & Cost Management

• Ensure ontime delivery across internal and external customers including intercompany transfer commitments.
• Lead Tier 3/4 operating rhythms driving accountability for SPQDCC performance and countermeasures.
• Optimize throughput using Lean automation and capacity planning across multiple production lines.
• Manage labor strategy staffing models and overtime for a large workforce in a 24/7 or extendedhours environment.
• Oversee asset reliability TPM maturity and execution of major capital and automation projects.

5. People Leadership & Development

• Lead coach and develop a large multilayer leadership team of Focus Factory Managers Department Managers and support leaders.
• Build a strong succession pipeline capable of supporting site complexity and future growth.
• Foster a culture of engagement inclusion and accountability across a diverse workforce.
• Ensure disciplined performance management and consistent policy application at scale.
• Host regular allhands meetings to align the organization around business performance priorities and longterm strategy.

6. Continuous Improvement & Cultural Transformation

• Serve as the site and network CI leader integrating Lean TPM and problemsolving into daily execution.
• Sponsor Kaizen events PDCA cycles and crossplant improvement initiatives.
• Reinforce Leader Standard Work and Gembabased leadership behaviors across all leadership levels.
• Ensure sustainability of improvements through tiered management systems and visual accountability.

7. CrossFunctional & Enterprise Collaboration

• Partner closely with EHS Quality Materials Engineering HR and Finance to align systems and execution.
• Collaborate with other Plant Managers to drive best practice sharing and network optimization.
• Support enterprise initiatives including automation digitalization and new product launches.
• Represent the site in corporate operational excellence forums and audits.

• Bachelors degree required; Masters preferred.
• 12 years of progressive manufacturing leadership including multivalue stream or largesite management.
• Proven ability to deliver SPQDCC results in a highcomplexity manufacturing environment.
• Advanced Lean TPM and CI leadership capability.
• Strong financial acumen managing large budgets and capital portfolios.
• Ability to support extendedhour operations and enterprise travel.