Plant Manager

Howmet Aerospace•Berea, OH

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About The Position

The Plant Manager develops and drives the plant manufacturing strategy, focusing on increasing business profits, customer satisfaction, and operational effectiveness. This role ensures the achievement of established performance targets, including operating cash flow, project delivery, on-time delivery, and cost reduction. The Plant Manager leads and manages the manufacturing function and plant teams, implementing and improving manufacturing technology and competence in line with the CAM strategy. They are responsible for executing the CAM quality strategy, driving quality improvements through target setting, monitoring, and benchmarking. This includes ensuring manufacturing operations comply with applicable standards and driving continuous improvements in productivity, delivery performance, and cost optimization. The role also focuses on delivering operational/project targets to meet customer requirements and ensuring manufacturing resources address identified issues. Additionally, the Plant Manager implements and maintains Health, Safety & Environment (HSE), sustainability, and business compliance standards, ensuring a safe working environment and continuous improvement. They are responsible for implementing and ensuring compliance with CAM standards, rules, tools, policies, and processes, and sharing best practices. Finally, the Plant Manager ensures their area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, and directed, building an effective, capable, and high-performing organization through talent development and creating a positive working environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree (typically in Business, Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM))
5-7 years previous manufacturing plant management experience preferred
Proven lean manufacturing experience
Previous experience in a fast-paced CNC machining or metal forming manufacturing operation
Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively both in groups as well as independently
Ability to manage complex projects, prioritize multiple tasks with close attention to detail and accuracy and meet deadlines
Solid financial acumen
Exceptional ability to communicate, both orally and in writing
Ability to travel and open to relocation

Nice To Haves

Advanced Degree preferred

Responsibilities

Develops and drives the plant manufacturing strategy.
Develops proactive strategies to increase business profits, customer satisfaction and operational effectiveness.
Ensures achievement of established targets, through oversight and definition of improvement actions as needed.
Focuses on achievement of operating cash flow, project on-time and on cost, on-time delivery, and cost reduction.
Leads and manages manufacturing function and plant teams and processes.
Implements and improves manufacturing technology and competence in line with the CAM strategy.
Executes CAM quality strategy.
Drives quality improvement through target setting, monitoring and benchmarking to continuously improve processes.
Executes quality management for monitoring and validating day to day control of processes.
Ensures manufacturing operations are in compliance with applicable standards.
Drives continued improvements in productivity, delivery performance and cost optimization.
Delivers operational/project targets (e.g. OTD, lead time, quality, etc.) to meet and exceed customer requirements.
Ensures that manufacturing resources implement improvements that address any identified issues.
Implements Health, Safety & Environment (HSE), sustainability and business compliance standards and regulations within the plant.
Ensures a safe working environment, and continuous improvement.
Implements and ensures compliance with CAM standards, rules, tools, policies, and processes related to operations/project execution and shares functional best practices and lessons learned across the organization.
Ensures that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed and directed.
Builds an effective, capable and high performing organization.
Develops talent, appoints managers, and reviews effectiveness.
Creates a positive working environment.