Plant Manager Manufacturing

Job Description

Our client is a niche mid-cap manufacturing products company seeking a strong Plant Manager for new their new operation they are establishing in TX.

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• Ensure plant operations meet all company and government safety and environmental rules and regulations.
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• Instills a plant safety culture to drive world-class occupational and process safety performance.
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• Establish strategic goals for manufacturing and technical center while aligning operational activities with Company goals and values.
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• Build collaborative relationships and effectively interact with business, senior leaders and stakeholders.
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• Drives plant productivity and efficiency by monitoring processes and leveraging most effective technologies across the regions.
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• Establish strategy for plants to ensure that delivery of manufactured products meet safety, quality, cost and on-time delivery goals in support of associated business objectives.
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• Create metrics and evaluate the efficiency of business procedures according to organizational objectives and apply improvements by analyzing and interpreting data and metrics of various disciplines.
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• Work with plant managers to develop and adjust operation budgets to promote profitability, monitor revenue margins and ensure Company goals are achieved or exceeded.
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• Responsible for staff management and development including assigning and directing work, appraising performance, hiring, training and retention, disciplining, addressing complaints and resolving problems.
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• Cooperates and effectively communicates with business units to meet Company objectives.
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• Leads change management activities for area of responsibility.
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• Coach, mentor and develop the team by fostering an environment of continuous learning, and encouraging global collaboration in a geographically and culturally dispersed organization.
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• Provides process technology subject matter expertise to operations team.
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• Supports and champions any process safety programs, policies and procedures.
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• Supports sustainability initiatives.
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Knowledge / Experience / Skills Required

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• Demonstrated ability to build on new data-led culture in operations facility, and be an effective driver of change.
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• Degree in a relevant discipline
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• Desired: a graduate degree (M.S. Eng., or MBA).
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• Ten years of managerial experience with budgetary responsibility in the consumer/electro-mechanical industry preferred.
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• Ideally from a competitive/lean manufacturing environment, with a strong focus on operations, lean and CI.
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• Knowledge of current Health, Safety, and Environmental legislation and standards.
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• A keen focus on regulatory compliance a plus.
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• Proven management experience in process plant.
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• Worked in an environment of leading organization capabilities. In other words able to get it done with limited resources (people and financials).
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• Demonstrated ability to create and implement innovative solutions to complex problems running a single train / multi-product operating facility.
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• Demonstrated ability to lead, direct and positively motivate others.
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• Strong ability to identify, develop and encourage talent.
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• Demonstrated results in process improvement and experience in reliability best practices and programs
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• Proven ability to measure performance and deliver against objectives.
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• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to influence all levels of the organization .
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• Evidence of ongoing training/development at a senior level to current best practice.
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