About this role
Position Overview and Responsibilities Responsible for Elland, the Plant Director manages and directs directing all manufacturing activities a plant or production process, including production, materials, quality control, and manufacturing engineering, to produce products in the most cost effective way, while meeting shipping requirements and sales commitments.
Key Responsibilities • Lead Operations Management, Operational Excellence, Safety, Continuous Improvement, Manufacturing Engineering, and plant Procurement functions • Establish processes to ensure manufacturing capabilities meet or exceed requirements for EHS, cost, quality, delivery, and responsiveness • Drive plant breakthrough operational performance by increasing productivity and reducing cost, lead-time and inventory while delivering a quality product complete and on-time to the customer • Continuously improve customer satisfaction through improved product quality First Pass Quality and On Time In Full • Implement and deliver a continuous improvement environment/culture • Develop key metrics to measure the plants performance and aligning area key performance metrics with overall platform goals; organizing resources to deliver on these metrics • Support new product launches and other manufacturing projects/initiatives • Oversee financial and cost management processes to ensure delivery against performance targets • Develop requests for capital and implement in accordance with approved plans • Partner with peers in Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Footprint, HSE, Planning and Engineering etc. • Develop and recommend annual and multi-year strategic manufacturing plans, capital, and special projects • Manage resource productivity to result in manufacturing and material cost reductions • Meet or exceed On-Time Delivery (OTD) standards • Own and reduce past due backlog using a continuous / solutions drive approach
Qualifications & Experience • BS or BA Degree in relevant field • 10+ years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment, including min. 4 years leading teams • Strong record of safety performance in a manufacturing plant • Plant Management/Operations experience in low volume / high mix environment of similar size and scale • Asset intensive, discrete manufacturing experience across various manufacturing functions, such as manufacturing, engineering, CIP, supply chain, quality, EHS, and related • Experience in materials management, supply chain, inventory control, planning and/or logistics • Experience in a manufacturing to order (must) or engineered-to-order (preferred) environment • Track record meeting/exceeding KPI’s in manufacturing cost reduction and productivity improvement, EHS and related • Track record implementing continuous improvement / lean initiatives for YoY results • Experience developing and managing budgets, schedules, capital expenditure plans with an understanding of the financial implications of operational strategies • Proven leadership and people management skills – ability to foster effective relationships amongst manufacturing teams