Plant Manager - Assembly, Heat Treat, Stamping

PK USA INC • Shelbyville, IN

11h • Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of this position is to provide leadership and direction of the manufacturing operations to maximize their profitability and efficiencies while minimizing safety, quality, and costs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or completion of bachelor’s degree within the next year
• 7 or more years’ relevant experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in the automotive industry
• Monitoring and responding to plant KPI’s
• Working knowledge of Kaizen principles and managing employees to stay on task with kaizen KPI requirements
• Outstanding analytical ability to understand complex problems and develop effective solutions
• Awareness of marketplace drivers in automotive components industry and how those can be leveraged effectively in conducting business for the organization
• Awareness of emerging manufacturing technologies and systems and how they can be implemented within the business to gain operating efficiencies
• Outstanding leadership and people skills to positively motivate employees and the organization toward achieving goals
• Excellent business planning and resource allocation skills to meet goals
• Budgeting and P&L experience.
• Teamwork with all departments at PK USA

Nice To Haves

• Leadership: Able to assume a role of authority, as necessary; advocates new ideas, even when risk is involved; sets an example for coworkers; delegates responsibility and empowers associates to make decisions; takes personal accountability for decisions.
• Problem Solving: Able to apply systems thinking to generate solutions; focuses on processes rather than isolated events; obtains multiple assessments of a situation and identifies trouble spots; evaluates alternative solutions.
• Decision Making: Able to take timely action in solving problems while exhibiting judgment and a realistic understanding of issues; able to consider options and uses reason and analysis to pick best solution.
• Results Orientation: Able to manage progress toward operational effectiveness; can implement preventative measures and establish clear accountability for action; confronts problems head on and takes decisive action.
• Manage Change: Able to identify, support and implement appropriate change initiatives; promotes and builds support for change initiatives; encourages innovation and supports employees through the transition process.
• Decisiveness: Able to stand by a decision, despite second-guessing or disagreement from others; takes quick action in a high-risk crisis; can assess a situation and make an optimal decision despite limited information.
• Communication: Able to clearly present information through the spoken or written word; reads and interprets complex information; talks with customers or clients; listens well.
• Develop Others: Able to appraise the strengths and weaknesses of subordinates to maximize chance of success; formulates an improvement action plan and creates a learning climate; empowers others to act.
• Energizing Others: Able to exhibit a “can-do” approach and inspires associates to excel; uses competition to encourage others; develops performance standards and confronts negative attitudes; develops team spirit.
• Goal Setting: Able to formulate business plans with measurable desired outcomes; translates action plans into quantifiable and realistic goals with associated deadlines for self or others.

Responsibilities

• Provide Leadership and direction to the Production Departments: Formal or informal discussions concerning process improvements, new model development, customer issues, production issues, quality issues, etc.; Problem solving any factory issues; Ensure department is following safety and housekeeping procedures and meeting expectations; Ensure documentation is present and up to date; Conduct Kaizen events for process improvement; Conduct meetings to review performance results; Review countermeasure actions to determine improvement or problem resolution.
• Training and development of managers and team leaders.
• Conduct administrative tasks: Daily review and processing of purchase orders, review performance reports, review vacation requests, answer e-mails, consider investment proposals, address training issues, safety issues, etc.; Budget preparation and semi-annual re-adjustment; Bill of material analysis and correction.
• Reporting of factory performance: Report on monthly KPI action plan with focus on scrap, labor, and cost savings results; Prepare financial reports, action plan meeting report, headcount control, line audit results; Actual vs. budget performance reports; Back-up plan preparation and reporting.
• Other projects and duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager