Plant Manager

Quovis, Inc.•Richton Park, IL

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Our client is a division of a Fortune 500 diversified industrial manufacturer with roughly $14B in global revenue, operations in 57 countries, and a portfolio of more than 16,000 active patents. Within that global enterprise, this division is a focused automotive business serving major OEMs across North America, engineering and manufacturing housing units, vehicle doors, capless fuel systems, and electric vehicle (EV) charge ports. The division operates multiple manufacturing locations across the U.S. and Mexico. This role has full accountability for one of the division's U.S. manufacturing sites, integrating Production, Quality, Materials, Maintenance, Engineering, and Customer Service into a single plant P&L. As the business modernizes its operations and pursues renewed growth, it needs a Plant Manager who can own site performance today while building the capability, culture, and bench strength for what's next.

Requirements

Full-site ownership — full P&L accountability for the plant, not a single function or shift
Full accountability for a manufacturing site's safety, quality, delivery, cost, and culture
Authority to integrate every plant function around one set of priorities
Ownership of the whole plant
Own real outcomes across safety, quality, delivery, cost, capacity, and culture, with Production Managers and functional leaders reporting through you
Safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets are consistently met, and the plant P&L performs to budget
Conversion cost, productivity, and capital effectiveness show clear year-over-year improvement
Capacity plans, equipment reliability, and inventory health are stable and forward-looking, not reactive
Functional leaders and Production Managers are developing, with a visible succession bench
The site's culture is measurably stronger — safer, more accountable, more collaborative — and continuous improvement is part of the daily operating rhythm

Nice To Haves

Resources, tooling, and career runway of a global industrial leader
Autonomy of running your own site
Set plant operating priorities, hold every functional leader accountable, and remove cross-functional and systemic barriers directly
Plant leadership roles within this organization are a recognized path into multi-site and division-level operations leadership

Responsibilities

Own full-plant performance and ensure the site achieves safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and customer commitments
Integrate priorities and decision-making across plant functions — Production, Quality, Materials, Maintenance, Engineering, and Customer Service — and remove cross-functional or systemic barriers
Set plant operating priorities, review results, and hold functional leaders accountable for corrective action and sustained improvement
Represent the plant to customers, auditors, and corporate leadership as required
Own the plant P&L and operating budget, including conversion cost, labor, scrap, premium freight, inventory-related costs, external sorting, maintenance, and capital effectiveness
Balance short-term execution with capacity planning, workforce capability, equipment strategy, facility layout, inventory management, and process improvement
Sponsor 80/20, continuous improvement, and capital initiatives that improve site economics and operating performance
Lead and develop functional leaders, front-line leaders, and supervisors, including Production Managers; strengthen accountability and succession
Create and sustain a plant culture grounded in safety, accountability, inclusion, teamwork, urgency, and continuous improvement
Build bench strength across the site as long-tenured talent transitions and a new generation of leaders develops
Ensure compliance with company policies, quality systems, customer requirements, and environmental and safety regulations
Partner across Sales, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and Human Resources to support launches, customer priorities, and profitable growth