Plant Manager

Plant Manager

Eaton Aerospace Group is seeking a Plant Manager to its flagship Los Angeles, California manufacturing facility, a $250M aerospace operation employing approximately 300 non-union team members. The Plant Manager will have full responsibility for operational performance, safety, quality, delivery, cost, employee engagement and financial results. The Plant Manager will provide strategic leadership across all functional disciplines, ensuring alignment with customer commitments, business objectives, and growth initiatives. The role requires a dynamic leader who will drive strategic execution, operational excellence, continuous improvement and organizational capability to achieve growth.

Provide overall leadership and direction for plant operations, including manufacturing, materials management, quality, environmental health and safety (EHS), human resources, and operational excellence. Foster a culture of employee engagement, accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance consistent with Eaton's Culture Model. Drive operational performance by improving customer satisfaction, quality, productivity, delivery, inventory, cost and profitability metrics.

Maintain full profit and loss accountability, monitoring financial performance, implementing corrective actions and ensuring achievement of business objectives. Champion continuous improvement initiatives through the Eaton business System, Lean Six Sigma, Eaton Quality System, Balanced Scorecard and other business operating processes. Ensure compliance with Eaton policies and all applicable government, financial, environmental, safety and labor regulations.

Partner with division leadership to support strategic business decisions and enterprise-wide initiatives sharing best practices across Eaton operations. Represent Eaton within the local community, industry organizations and customer engagements. Proven Ability to lead organizational change, drive performance improvements and deliver sustainable business results. Develop and execute short and long term business plans to achieve plant and division objectives including strategic plans, profit plants, organizational capability plans and forecasts.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. Minimum 7 years' experience in a manufacturing environment. Minimum of 3 years of supervisory/managerial experience. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship. This position requires use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.

Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree. Aerospace experience.

Relocation will be offered for this position.

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At Eaton, we strive to provide compensation and benefits that attract, engage, and retain the best talent. This includes competitive pay and a variety of benefit programs for eligible employees. The expected annual salary range for this role is $182000 - $266000 a year. This role is also eligible for a variable incentive program. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

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