Plant Manager

Allegion • Farmington, CT

68d • Onsite

About The Position

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 40 brands, 14,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Allegion is proud to be recognized with the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the third consecutive year, earning distinction in both the employee engagement and strengths categories. This year, Allegion also received Gallup’s With Distinction honor — a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures. Stanley Access Technologies is recognized as an industry leader in the manufacturing, installation, and servicing of automatic doors. Our growing product and service offerings have driven significant growth for our service business. Join our world class team of diligent problem solvers, innovators, fresh thinkers, and communicators who excite and inspire others. The Plant Manager is responsible for driving continuous and significant improvements in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, cost, and working capital. This will be achieved by developing a world class plant operations organization and methodically implementing the strategic objectives (a unique combination of strategic planning, strategy deployment, lean management, and manufacturing techniques).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering preferred.
• Ten years manufacturing operations leadership experience.

Nice To Haves

• The potential to lead larger and more strategically complex manufacturing organizations or assume a full P&L general management assignment is desired.
• The successful candidate will also be a strong developer of people and teams, believing it a critical component in driving organizational change and effectiveness.
• Highly customer responsive.
• Very resourceful, combining strong manufacturing and technical abilities with good overall management acumen.
• Ability and passion to lean operating system culture.
• Understanding of non-repetitive, configurable manufacturing processes.
• Ability to create followership and lead an organization through significant change and improvement.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to effectively communicate. throughout all levels of the organization.
• Possesses a high sense of urgency.
• Unwavering credibility with the ability to build consensuses.
• Ability to build relationships between all business functions.

Responsibilities

• Drive rapid, significant and sustainable improvement in on-time delivery, lot size, lead time and cost reduction
• Provide the leadership necessary for the development and execution of a manufacturing 5 yr strategy.
• Lead regular KPI reviews with the Operational and Business unit leaders
• Leads the development and implementation of the roadmap to achieve breakthrough operating performance (5S, SMED, TPM, etc)
• Coach and mentor an outstanding team
• Ensure key manufacturing metrics and key performance indicator systems are consistently tracked
• Continually evolve manufacturing efficiency and assess opportunities to reduce cost, taking aggressive action to drive financial performance
• Oversee coordination of the manufacturing function with sales, marketing, design engineering, and other functional organizations
• Continually benchmark best practices and drive use of such across responsible operations

Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurance coverage
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• 401K plan with a 6% company match and no vesting period
• Health Savings Accounts
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Disability Insurance –Short-Term and Long-Term coverage
• Life Insurance – Term life coverage with the option to purchase supplemental coverage
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Voluntary Wellness Program
• Employee Discounts through Perks at Work
• Community involvement and opportunities to give back
• Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths assessment & coaching

What This Job Offers

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