Plant Manager-Assembly Technologies

Plant Manager-Assembly Technologies

Highland Heights, OH

Come make the world and accelerate your success.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of more than 50,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world's most beloved brands, including DEWALT, BLACK+DECKER, CRAFTSMAN, STANLEY, CUB CADET, and HUSTLER.

STANLEY Engineered Fastening is the global leader in precision fastening and assembly solutions, with a history spanning nearly 100 years. Our portfolio features industry-leading brands such as Avdel, Integra, Nelson, Optima, POP, and Tucker. We empower engineers in Automotive, Aerospace, and Industrial sectors with innovative products that ensure efficiency, reliability, and quality in manufacturing processes. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of innovation and creativity. Our skilled team develops, manufactures, and distributes cutting-edge fastening and joining solutions to meet modern engineering and manufacturing challenges.

The Job:

As a Plant Manager, you'll be part of our Stanley Engineered Fastening team overseeing our SAT Highland Heights, OH location as an on-site employee. You'll get to:

• Assume overall leadership of Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Inventory and People (SQCDIP) for products and processes.
• Directly interact with all support functions including Commercial, Advanced Manufacturing, Quality, EHS, Security, HR, Finance, Engineering, and Supply chain to ensure increasing levels of customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction while improving the efficiency of labor, materials, and machines.
• Support new product development plans by collaborating with the relevant product managers to improve product profiles, cost, standards, profits, and availability.
• Lead and manage policy deployment in the areas of Lean Manufacturing techniques, quality, cost reduction, complete and on time delivery, safety, customer satisfaction, employee relations, digital factory, and plant performance measures.
• Provide plant and team leadership through visioning, goals, expectations, performance management, coaching and communication, employee engagement, employee development, and employee relations.
• Provide leadership for root cause analysis and effective problem solving, yielding immediate and long-term corrective actions and sustainable enhancements (Quality, Warranty, Continuous Improvement, Productivity, and overall operations).
• Ensure compliance with all federal and state regulations (e.g. OSHA), as well as all company policies and standards, including cost control, human resources, on-time delivery, quality, safety, and waste reduction.
• Manage material requirements to increase inventory turns and reduce levels on hand. Lead the Purchasing & Materials Management team to drive OTIF, WCT-DSI and overall corporate expectations.
• Support the development of an accurate annual budget, effectively manage the budget, and provide analysis for forecasting changes.
• Support the S&OP/IBP process through effectively monitoring demand forecast and comparing/converting it into supply forecast factoring in head/tail winds for labor, material, and machines.
• Effectively plan for, budget for, and manage operations headcount needs driving strong labor efficiencies.
• Identify, justify, communicate, and drive implementation of capital investments and improvement projects.
• Balance work cell loading across the plant and leverage strong material flow optimization opportunities.
• Continually benchmark and drive effective application of best practices and upskilling of our associates.
• Embrace the corporation's values supporting DE&I and Sustainability.

The Person:

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You're not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn't it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:

• Minimum of ten (10) years of related progressive manufacturing operations
• Bachelor's degree in operations, engineering or related field/experience and an MBA is preferred.
• Site P&L responsibility experience multi-site leadership experience in a multi shift environment, managing multiple business functions.
• Certification in Lean or Six Sigma a plus.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001-2015, AS9100, and IATF.
• The ideal candidate is an experienced professional with proficiency in the following areas:
• Creating a Safety Culture.
• Unionized site leadership
• Ability to create followership and lead an organization through significant change and improvement.
• Financial analysis, including understanding and use of balance sheets, profit and loss statements, etc.
• Highly customer responsive.
• Short and long-term planning.
• Excellent project management.
• High volume assembly operations preferred.

The Details:

You'll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan including:

• Medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

And More:

We want our company to be a place you'll want to be and stay. Being part of our team means you'll get to:

• Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
• Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our Lean Academy, Coursera, and online university.
• Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.

What's more, you'll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We're more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We're visionaries and innovators. As successful as we've been in the past, we have so much further to go. That's where you come in. Join us!

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship (H1B, OPT/CPT, TN etc).

All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or any other protected characteristic.

We Don't Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you'll get the unique chance to impact some of the world's most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

We're the World's largest tool company. We're industry visionaries. We're solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art "smart factory" products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Benefits & Perks

You'll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, retirement benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement. And, of course, discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.

What You'll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren't linear here. Being part of our global company with 6