What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Manager position at TalentRise, An Aleron Company?
Seeking a Plant Manager to help lead and direct all manufacturing plant functions to ensure cost effectiveness and adherence to safety, quality, and delivery standards. Promote a high morale workplace, focusing on talent development, succession planning, and building a cooperative environment. Champion a culture of continuous improvement by identifying opportunities for enhancing manufacturing processes, reducing costs, and increasing overall efficiency. Implement best practices and drive innovation to elevate product quality and operational performance. Prepare performance reports to track progress and inform management decisions.
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in technical or business discipline. Industrial or Mechanical Engineering degree preferred
- 10-year experience in manufacturing environment, with at least 5 years' experience in a similar leadership role
- Utilize lean tools like single piece flow, Kanban, and value-stream mapping to identify waste and implement corrective actions
- Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with and influence employees
- Proven turnaround experience in a low-volume high-mix manufacturing environment
Job Requirements:
- Ability to lead people and get results through others
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Highly motivated and driven self-starter
- Practical Lean Manufacturing experience is required
- Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
- Exceptional general business knowledge
- Proficient knowledge of MS Office
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead plant operations with overall responsibilities for production, maintenance and other production-related activities
- Oversee manufacturing supervisors and employees to ensure proper job scheduling and adequate plant staffing
- Ensure quality and consistency of product, improve efficiencies, and control/reduce waste and associated costs throughout plant operations
- Develop operating metrics for plant to communicate daily operating efficiencies as part of visual management process; metrics will also identify continuous improvement activities
- Participate in the development of work processes and measurements to improve efficiencies and product quality and reliability
- Track direct labor cost versus standards and establish labor efficiency gains year over year
- Establish performance targets and expectations for all direct employees to meet organizational goals
Salary : $135,000 - $155,000
