About this role
CSP is the industry leader in the formulation and molding of lightweight, advanced composite components for the transportation industries. As an innovative, full-service Tier One supplier, we offer an entrepreneurial environment where you’re only limited by your own imagination. In addition to our team-focused environment, we provide industry-leading benefits, called BENEfits4U. Our comprehensive offering includes: affordable medical, dental, and vision care; flexible spending accounts; life insurance; 401k with company match and much, much more. Job Description Job Description Essential Job Functions:
• Ensure product launch objectives, project capital needs and customer requirements are met on time and adherence to strict safety protocols. • Responsible for the plant’s performance in manufacturing, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, quality and delivery of product and maintaining quality and environmental certifications. • Passionate about coaching and training plant personnel. Effective at setting, evaluating and inspiring individual and team goals that develop people to promote a positive “get-it-done” culture. • Strategic thinker and situational leader; plan, direct, and manage the entire operation, ensuring the • development and implementation of efficient operational processes to meet current and future business requirements. • Organize and manage the plant Operation/Production teams to meet designated targets and objectives, while using them effectively and efficiently. Set clear expectations, design practical processes and procedures that ensure accountability and KPI’s. • Create and implement initiatives that drive optimization and improvements in the performance of the overall operations input, throughputs and outputs, focused production planning, scheduling, and execution. • Work with managers within the plant to collect and analyze data to find ways to improve overall manufacturing capacity, teaching managers to schedule, plan, organize, direct, and run optimum day-to-day operations that meet or exceed internal expectations. • Work with department managers to implement and maintain preventative maintenance programs and incorporate production floor organization and plant cleanliness among all plant personnel. • Extensive knowledge of business and management principles (budgeting, production planning, material flow, inventory management, resource allocation and human resource planning). • Increase production, asset capacity and flexibility, while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards. • Implement cost-effective systems of control over capital, operating expenditures, manpower, wages, and salaries. • Establish and implement short and long-range department goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures for the entire operations/production teams. Monitoring overall plant performance for production and quality standards. • Provide direction, development, and leadership for all operational departments; ensure team members’ roles and responsibilities are clear and understood. • Partner with Scheduler and/or Materials Manager to ensure coordination/linking of all schedules and inventories are efficient, effective, and optimized, including source selection. • Champion plant safety policies and procedures. Effectively communicate with the company Health, Safety and Environmental Policy and Procedures and manage /Executive Safety Committees. • Assist in the analysis and interpretation of ERP system information. • Encourage open communication at all levels within the organization as well as the customer base.
Leadership and Management:
• Energize and engage employees through their managers by ensuring they understand and can execute operational fulfillment goals. Must be able to communicate job expectations internally; plan, monitor, appraise, and review job contributions; enforcing policies and procedures. • Set monitor, and follow-up on operational and/or performance goals for each department which are aggressive, achievable, and tied to long-term goals ensuring progress is being made. • Track and measure productivity by analyzing performance data, financial data, and activity reports, follow-up on operational/production performance goals/KPIs for each department. • Ensure all department managers are fully informed of operational objectives. Maintain an operational atmosphere of accountability. • Conduct standard meetings with department managers to ensure that priorities are clear, and coordination is good. • Solve any inter-departmental issues that arise before any problems hamper the daily operations. Facilitate conflict resolution to ensure objective fulfillment and timely resolution to site specific problems and opportunities. • Ensure the operations team has the necessary resources to effectively meet short and long-term goals. • Establish and adjust organizational structure so that it supports the business’s objectives. • As the key point (face) of management to employees, have good relations and represent management with encouragement and professionalism.
Qualifications:
• 7– 10 years of senior management experience including management position within manufacturing operations. • Manufacturing of automotive products such as composites, plastics, class-A injection molded parts. • Proven track record as Plant Manager. • Previous experience/best practices implementing and using continuous improvement/lean tools such as Six Sigma, 5-S, Lean Manufacturing, Transactional Lean, etc. to drive improvement. • Proven ability in creating accountability at the management level and leading by example. • Strong team building, decision-making and people management skills • Direct P&L ownership and experience creating and managing budgets. • Proven ability to start or stop all production or plant operations, and ability to schedule necessary changes with production, logistics, materials, etc. • Broad knowledge of OSHA and workplace health and safety programs. • “Own it” mentality, high energy, proactive team player with a contagious desire that inspires the team toward shared goals and purpose. • A highly organized, committed, and analytical thinker who is used to substantial autonomy while ensuring that the executive leadership team is engaged. • Must be articulate, resourceful, and focused. Must exhibit patience, perseverance, and persuasiveness. • Solid understanding of regulatory requirements for operating plants. • Knowledgeable of safety, quality, productivity, demand planning, inventory, and resource allocation processes.
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, finance, or management required. MBA highly preferred; or equivalent experience.
If you enjoy innovation, and an opportunity to learn and contribute to a growing organization, CSP is the place for you!