Plant Manager

Silgan Dispensing Systems • Macedonia, OH

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Plant Manager establishes an effective plant culture by ensuring individual accountability, creating a performance management focus, and encouraging a high level of employee engagement. This role involves preparing the plant budget, managing the business by controlling costs, and meeting expected financial results. The Plant Manager develops a strategic business plan for the local site, directs production operations to ensure cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency with prescribed quality and performance standards. They ensure proper methods and promptness of communication to employees, customers, and internal/external business associates, and organize exchanges of best practices with other plants. Collaboration with centralized business units is key to achieving overall business objectives. The Plant Manager leads the plant's performance by operating with a set of standards and meeting or exceeding key performance targets in areas of safety, customer complaints, customer deliveries, production efficiency, waste, inventory control, lean savings, cash, and operating profit. They develop and implement operating policies and procedures consistent with Corporate Policy. This role researches, evaluates, and recommends investments in technology, machines, equipment, systems, or other assets that will enhance the plant’s effectiveness in safety, quality, and both production and labor efficiency. The Plant Manager participates in the resolution and prevention of customer complaints and promotes solid customer relations in partnership with the commercial organization. Collaboration with New Product Development and Engineering from project development through delivery to the customer is also a key responsibility. The role involves selecting, leading, and developing plant staff through coaching, mentoring, and training to deliver business results and for plant succession planning. The Plant Manager ensures strict compliance with all safety, environmental, local, and Federal regulations by all plant personnel and visitors. They champion and support all EHS and Lean programs, establishing both the safety and lean culture in the plant. Additionally, they champion and support all Quality programs, establishing the quality lean culture in the plant.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field
• 5-7 years plant/general management experience in a manufacturing environment
• Minimum 5 years in various functions in a manufacturing environment
• Minimum 5 years in a leadership, change management role
• Must have experience leading a similar sized manufacturing plant (100-250 employees)
• Ability to analyze an income statement to improve operational performance and business results
• Ability to drive results in production operations and other key areas
• Ability to present complex business information to all levels
• Proven skills of leadership/influencing/collaboration
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Understanding of New Product Development cycle and processes
• Solid experience with good manufacturing practices (GMP), SPC, and Quality Systems
• Experience in Lean principles application
• Strategic thinking, decision maker through implementation
• Ability to work in a matrix organization
• People development and identifying talent
• Ability to create and implement change to support corporate strategy
• Excellent communication, verbally and written
• Demonstrated leadership practices (leading, coaching, vision, employee relations)

Responsibilities

• Establishes effective plant culture by ensuring individual accountability, creating a performance management focus, and encouraging a high level of employee engagement.
• Prepares the plant budget and manages the business by controlling costs and meeting expected financial results.
• Develops a strategic business plan for the local site.
• Directs production operations to ensure cost effectiveness, efficiency, and consistency with prescribed quality and other performance standards.
• Ensures proper methods and promptness of communication to employees, customers, and internal/external business associates.
• Organizes exchanges of best practices with other plants.
• Communicates and collaborates with all centralized business units to achieve overall business objectives.
• Leads the performance of the plant by operating with a set of standards and meeting or exceeding key performance targets in areas of safety, customer complaints, customer deliveries, production efficiency, waste, inventory control, lean savings, cash and operating profit.
• Develops and implements operating policies and procedures consistent with Corporate Policy.
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends investments in technology, machines, equipment, systems or other assets, that will enhance the plant’s effectiveness in the areas of safety, quality and both production and labor efficiency.
• Participates in the resolution and prevention of customer complaints and promotes solid customer relations in partnership with the commercial organization.
• Collaborates with New Product Development and Engineering from project development through delivery to customer.
• Selects, leads, and develops plant staff through coaching, mentoring and training to deliver the business results and for plant succession planning.
• Ensures strict compliance with all safety, environmental, local and Federal regulations by all plant personnel and visitors.
• Champions and supports all EHS and Lean programs. Responsible for establishing both the safety and lean culture in the plant.
• Champions and supports all Quality programs. Responsible for establishing quality lean culture in the plant.

What This Job Offers

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