Plant General Manager

ABB•Jonesboro, AR

2d•Onsite

About The Position

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world. This Position reports to: Operations Leader, C&I This person will lead the Jonesboro, AR facility with a relentless commitment to operational excellence, championing the highest standards of safety, quality, integrity, and performance. This role is responsible for driving the site’s strategic and day‑to‑day success—delivering on business objectives, optimizing production, and ensuring flawless execution across all functions. As the senior leader on site, you will provide visionary direction and hands‑on oversight for Production, Facilities, Materials, and Safety, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and teamwork. This is a high‑impact role for a dynamic leader ready to elevate performance, inspire teams, and ensure seamless, compliant, and efficient operations.

Requirements

BS in manufacturing, engineering, or business-related field
Minimum 8 years progressive experience in the business-related functions and/or 5 years’ experience in production management
Manufacturing experience is necessary
Ability to communicate complex concepts via presentations for senior level audiences
Change Management experience
Proven experience in developing teams
Sound business acumen

Nice To Haves

MBA or relevant master’s degree (in-process)
Electrical products experience
Lean Six Sigma experience

Responsibilities

Implement the HUB manufacturing strategy in the Jonesboro site and support across the region; providing input on global division strategy.
Develop business action plans and proactive strategies to increase business profits, customer satisfaction, and operational effectiveness.
Monitor implementation and tracks any deviations for corrective action.
Ensure achievement of established targets through oversight and definition of improvement actions as needed.
Focus on key metrics and is accountable for managing to annual goals for each metric as well as overall budget.
Focus on achievement of operating cash flow, project on-time and on-cost, requested On-Time Delivery (ROTD), and cost reduction.
Ensure continuous improvement projects are in place so that the highest level of operational performance can be met.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement, employee involvement and open communications.
Improve manufacturing technology and competence in line with HUB manufacturing strategy.
Directly responsible for production scheduling, staging and expediting (with the help of others on your team).
Streamline shop floor activities and improving plant organization and throughput.
Resolve production problems and developing ways to minimize recurrence.
Execute HUB quality strategy and drive quality improvement through target setting, monitoring, and benchmarking to continuously improve processes.
Execute quality management for monitoring and validating day-to-day process control.
Responsible for meeting customer requirements for OTD, lead time, quality and safety.
Partner with the Sales/Product Management teams to provide customers with up to date information as well as assist in determining solutions for the customer’s needs.
Ensure that manufacturing resources implement improvements that address issues identified through Customer Complaint Resolution Process (CCRP), Internal Transactional Partnership Survey (ITPS), Top 5 Quality Initiatives (T5QI), and other voice of the customer initiatives.
Create and maintain a positive work environment through building effective, capable and high performing teams.
Develop talent through active coaching and counseling.
Prepare and report out to HUB Managing Director on facility performance on a weekly and monthly basis.
Develop and implement operations cadences within facilities to ensure accurate communication, project management and corrective action activities are taking place.
Recruit new teammates and develop a successful teamwork-oriented culture.
Share functional best practices and lessons learned across the organization.
Ensure your team’s understand ABB’s core values and group safety and integrity standards and act accordingly.
Implement and ensure compliance with the ABB code of conduct, global and local standards, tools, policies, and processes in their assigned area.
Ensure adherence to all internal and statutory regulations and policies pertaining to the teams in scope.
Accountable for the health and safety of all employees and contractors for the teams in scope, and continuous improvement in Health, Safety, and Environment (HSE) processes and integrity performance.
Promote and enable collaboration in the division, across divisions, business areas, and teams to maximize results for ABB.
Provide guidance to the teams and seek knowledge for their own development and coaching/mentoring of the teams.
Manage relationships with stakeholders in their own area of responsibility and ensures alignment.
Ensure that their own area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled, and directed.
Inspire, guide, motivate, and develop direct and indirect reports in collaboration with HRBP.
Build effective, competent, and high-performing teams.
Review organizational effectiveness and performs competence assessments and continuous skill upgrades.
Lead and manage Manufacturing function and Operations teams and processes.

Benefits

Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
Vision benefit
Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks
Employee Assistance Program
Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
Employee discount program
401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
ABB provides 11 paid holidays.
Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.