Plant Head - Auto Component Manufacturer (15-25 yrs)

Key Responsibilities:

- The Plant Head position is responsible for providing leadership to and managing all business operations of Plants

- Maintains Employee Engagement at high levels, including through regular all-employee meetings and communications

- Partners with Operations to develop and execute strategic plans,

- Provide direct oversight of Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Control, and Maintenance functions of the operation, assuming lead responsibility for quality, on-time delivery, productivity, continuous improvement, and cost improvement

- Participates in the annual planning process for and in monthly forecast reviews for all the Plants.

- Prepares for and directs monthly business reviews of the operation with Senior Management teams

- Analyzes production capacity against demand projections to identify bottlenecks and proactively resolves them through utilization of Lean Concepts, procurement of additional assets, or both

- Drives development of talent throughout the team and ensures viable succession plans for key team members

- Business minded- an entrepreneurial mindset; understands internal and external customers and products, anticipating needs with a future orientation; provides vision and guidance toward enterprise goals

- Enterprise and systems perspective- understands the role of the plant as part of a larger system both within segment and organization; considers the relationship between the business for which they are responsible and other components within the matrix, translates corporate and segment action to plant level;

- Risk and change adept- recognizes internal and external risk factors and plans accordingly where possible; proactive in the service of continuous improvement

- Culture curator- sets the tone for work environment, expectations, and accountability within the plant; leader by example; prioritizes safety and quality

- Team facilitator- enables interactions between sub-teams and senior staff;

- Talent advocate- coaches, mentors, and creates experiences to develop talent from within the plant; grows pool of potential successors

- Influence and empowering- Trusts direct reports to interpret and execute throughout the plant and supports local level decision making and accountability; collaborates with stakeholders to remove roadblocks

- Customer coordination- responds directly to customer inquiries, delegating or arranging as required; seeks customer input and balances needs of a variety of external customers to ensure delivery and quality; interfaces with customer and internal stakeholders

Qualifications:

- to anticipate future needs, strategizing accordingly

- Bachelor's degree in an Engineering, Manufacturing, or Business discipline from an accredited institution

- Minimum 15 years of manufacturing experience; at least 7 years within a leadership capacity (preferably in an auto component manufacturing company)

- Experience must include leading manufacturing excellence, customer management, and driving improvements through the implementation of manufacturing principles

- Strong customer management skills

- Demonstrated results in leading manufacturing excellence

- Strong technical understanding of manufacturing processes

- Strong analytical, communication, interpersonal, organizational and negotiation skills