Complex Plant Manager ( Full-time ) Defiance, OH DK

Key Performance Outcomes:

The Plant Manager is expected to:

• Safety & Environmental Performance:

  • Achieve yearoveryear improvement in safety metrics ensuring the Defiance complex meets or exceeds JM safety health and environmental commitments.

  • Maintain full regulatory compliance while reducing risk through proactive hazard identification strong safety culture and disciplined operating practices.

• Operational Excellence:

  • Improve plant productivity throughput yield and uptime through disciplined execution of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement systems.

  • Ensure Defiance remains a reliable highquality supplier to internal JM plants and external customers improving customer satisfaction and reducing quality escapes.

  • Balance shortterm operational demands with longterm process stability and asset reliability.

• People & Culture:

  • Build and sustain an engaged accountable performancedriven culture aligned with JM values.

  • Develop leaders and succession pipelines by coaching setting clear expectations and holding leaders accountable for results.

  • Effectively lead within a union environment maintaining productive labor relations while driving performance.

• Financial Performance:

  • Deliver annual operating results against budget and forecast including cost working capital and inventory performance.

  • Translate financial analysis into actionable operating decisions that improve profitability and asset efficiency.

• Capital & Strategic Execution:

  • Lead major capital programsincluding furnace rebuilds automation and capacity expansionsdelivering projects safely on schedule and within approved funding.

  • Improve plant efficiency and strategic flexibility through disciplined evaluation and execution of capital investments.

• Systems Governance & Reporting:

  • Establish and maintain robust operating metrics management routines and reporting systems that drive accountability and continuous improvement.

  • Partner with senior leadership to align site execution with both nearterm business priorities and longrange strategic objectives.

• External Leadership:

  • Serve as the primary representative of JM for the Defiance complex with community stakeholders regulatory agencies customers and corporate leadership.

Why This Role Stands Out:

• EnterpriseCritical Leadership Role:Lead one of JMs largest most complex and most visible manufacturing complexes with direct impact on networkwide supply and performance.

• True Scale and Accountability:Full responsibility for a multisite capitalintensive operation with 600 hourly and 60 salaried employees multiple unions and diverse product lines.

• Transformation Opportunity:Drive major capital investmentsincluding furnace rebuilds automation and potential expansionshaping the future of the plant not just maintaining it.

• High Visibility High Impact:Significant interaction with senior leadership and corporate stakeholders; success here is highly visible and careeraccelerating.

• CareerDefining Challenge:Ideal for a proven plant leader seeking complexity influence and the chance to leave a lasting operational and cultural legacy.

Qualifications & Leadership Capabilities:

• Bachelors degree required (engineering or technical related degree preferred) with 12 years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience including 5 years as a Plant Manager or equivalent senior site leadership role.

• Demonstrated success leading large complex multiline manufacturing operations with union and salaried workforces.

• Proven ability to deliver measurable improvements in safety productivity quality cost and employee engagement.

• Strong financial acumen with experience managing P&L performance and capital programs.

• Deep knowledge of continuous improvement disciplines (Lean Six Sigma KepnerTregoe or similar).

• Experience with environmental permitting regulatory agencies and safety program leadership.

• Strong technical and mechanical aptitude with the ability to challenge and improve manufacturing systems.

• Highly effective communicator and collaborator capable of influencing at all levels of the organization.

• Demonstrated ability to set clear direction prioritize competing demands and drive disciplined execution.

• Willingness to travel periodically (1129 days per year).