Plant Manager

Inteva Products•Birmingham, AL

About The Position

The Plant Manager will support the launch of a new manufacturing facility in the southwest Birmingham metropolitan area and lead all plant operations to achieve objectives for safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and customer satisfaction. The role directs Just-in-Time (JIT) and Just-in-Sequence (JIS) operations to ensure accurate, uninterrupted delivery aligned with customer production schedules. The Plant Manager establishes priorities, performance expectations, and accountability across shifts and functional teams; ensures effective staffing, labor utilization, material flow, equipment availability, and operational readiness; and monitors plant performance while driving corrective actions. As the primary site leader for customer operational issues and escalations, the manager leads containment, recovery, and corrective action activities as needed. The role champions safety and quality, ensures compliance with company standards, regulatory requirements, standardized work, and customer-specific requirements, and manages plant financial and operational performance. It also leads and develops the plant leadership team, fosters employee engagement and teamwork, and advances lean manufacturing and continuous improvement to improve overall plant performance.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive leadership experience within automotive manufacturing, sequencing, or related operations.
Plant management or senior operations leadership experience.
Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, customer-driven operation.
Strong knowledge of safety, quality, production, material flow, labor planning, and continuous improvement principles.
Experience with lean manufacturing, standardized work, root-cause problem solving, and operational KPI management.
Strong financial and business acumen, with experience managing plant operating costs and performance.
Strong leadership, communication, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to manage competing priorities and respond effectively to operational and customer escalations.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting JIT/JIS automotive environments is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead all plant operations to achieve objectives for safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
Direct JIT and JIS operations to ensure accurate, uninterrupted delivery aligned with customer production schedules.
Establish plant priorities, performance expectations, and accountability across all shifts and functional teams.
Ensure effective staffing, labor utilization, material flow, equipment availability, and operational readiness to meet customer requirements.
Monitor plant performance and drive corrective actions for production, sequencing, quality, delivery, labor, and cost concerns.
Serve as the primary site leader for customer operational issues and escalations, leading containment, recovery, and corrective action activities as needed.
Champion a strong safety and quality culture and ensure compliance with company standards, regulatory requirements, standardized work, and customer-specific requirements.
Manage plant financial and operational performance, including labor, overtime, productivity, scrap, premium freight, operating costs, budgets, and key performance indicators.
Lead, develop, and hold the plant leadership team accountable while fostering employee engagement, communication, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
Drive lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives to optimize sequencing accuracy, material flow, labor efficiency, quality, equipment reliability, and overall plant performance.