Plant Manager III

EnerSys Delaware Inc.•Greenville, SC

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Plant Manager provides overall leadership for the phased development, start-up, ramp-up, and ongoing operation of EnerSys’s new lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility in Greenville, South Carolina. The role begins with facility construction and operational readiness and progresses through equipment installation and commissioning, production launch, workforce ramp-up, stabilization, and full-scale manufacturing operations. The Plant Manager establishes the operating model, leadership capability, organizational structure, culture, management systems, and performance disciplines needed to achieve excellence in safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, people, and customer satisfaction. The position requires broad manufacturing expertise in a high-volume, fully automated environment and an understanding of the interdependencies among production, engineering, maintenance, quality, supply chain, materials, EHS, finance, and people. The leader applies operational and financial acumen and lithium-ion cell manufacturing knowledge while building organizations, developing leaders, anticipating workforce needs, and establishing strong relationships with employees, customers, suppliers, and business partners.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related discipline.
Significant progressive leadership experience in complex, high-volume, highly automated, or advanced manufacturing environments.
Experience leading a significant manufacturing operation with accountability for safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, people, and financial performance.
Experience supporting or leading a new manufacturing facility build and start-up, significant plant expansion, major manufacturing transformation, or complex production ramp-up.
Strong knowledge of lithium-ion cell manufacturing or relevant advanced manufacturing technologies and processes.
Broad understanding of manufacturing operations and the interdependencies among production, engineering, maintenance, quality, supply chain, materials, EHS, finance, and people.
Strong financial and commercial acumen, including experience managing operating budgets, forecasts, manufacturing costs, capital investments, productivity, and business performance.
Demonstrated success building, leading, coaching, and developing high-performing leadership teams.
Experience with workforce planning, organizational design, talent development, and leadership succession.
Ability to build effective relationships with customers, suppliers, employees, executive leadership, and cross-functional partners.
Ability to lead through ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree in Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
Direct experience in lithium-ion cell manufacturing or large-scale battery manufacturing.
Experience taking a newly constructed manufacturing facility through commissioning, production launch, volume ramp-up, and stabilized operations.
Experience with highly automated manufacturing equipment and advanced manufacturing technologies.
Strong working knowledge of Lean manufacturing, structured problem solving, operational excellence, and continuous-improvement methodologies.
Experience in a global manufacturing organization or complex matrixed business environment.

Responsibilities

Lead operational readiness and the phased development of the Greenville facility, ensuring manufacturing requirements are incorporated into construction, commissioning, launch, and scale-up.
Partner with Engineering, Project Management, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, EHS, People & Culture, IT/OT, and other functions to establish manufacturing readiness.
Translate project milestones into operational plans covering equipment, processes, workforce, training, materials, systems, safety, quality, and infrastructure.
Coordinate readiness of equipment, processes, systems, organizational capabilities, and workforce; identify and resolve gaps before they affect production.
Establish operating systems, standard work, governance, performance metrics, escalation processes, and accountability for the transition from project execution to manufacturing operations.
Lead equipment installation and commissioning, qualification, production launch, ramp-up, stabilization, and full-scale operations.
Direct plant operations and performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, capacity, employee performance, and manufacturing results.
Integrate production, maintenance, engineering, quality, supply chain, materials, EHS, and supporting functions.
Establish a culture of operational excellence, disciplined execution, accountability, continuous improvement, and structured problem solving.
Set and evaluate plant KPIs, identify performance gaps and root causes, and drive sustainable corrective actions.
Improve manufacturing productivity, equipment effectiveness, reliability, throughput, yield, quality, labor efficiency, and operating cost.
Establish manufacturing systems, controls, procedures, and escalation mechanisms as production volume and organizational complexity increase.
Champion Lean manufacturing and embed continuous improvement throughout the organization.
Apply practical lithium-ion cell manufacturing knowledge to operational decisions, including processes, automated equipment, process controls, materials, quality requirements, and production risks.
Work with Cell Engineering, Process Engineering, Quality, EHS, and other technical teams to establish safe, repeatable, high-quality processes that can operate at scale.
Help plant teams understand the relationships among process capability, product quality, yield, throughput, equipment performance, manufacturing cost, and customer requirements.
Support the introduction, industrialization, and scale-up of manufacturing processes and technologies.
Own plant operating performance from operational and financial perspectives; develop and manage budgets, forecasts, labor plans, productivity targets, capital requirements, and cost-improvement initiatives.
Partner with Finance to manage manufacturing cost, labor, productivity, inventory, scrap, yield, capital utilization, and other plant performance drivers.
Evaluate significant operational decisions against manufacturing and financial considerations and establish cost-management and financial disciplines as the facility transitions to sustainable operations.
Build the plant organization in phases and develop short- and long-term workforce plans for leadership, technical, skilled-trades, professional, and manufacturing capabilities.
Anticipate talent, capacity, skill, and leadership gaps and partner with People & Culture on recruiting, workforce planning, onboarding, training, retention, engagement, talent management, and organizational capability.
Establish organizational structures, decision rights, accountabilities, and leadership responsibilities; develop workforce flexibility and organizational depth.
Assess workforce capacity and capability against production requirements, operating plans, and future growth.
Recruit, coach, and develop a high-performing plant leadership team; establish expectations for leaders to develop others and build organizational capability.
Partner with People & Culture to assess leadership capability, organizational effectiveness, succession coverage, bench strength, and future talent needs.
Build succession pipelines for critical plant leadership and technical positions and develop high-potential talent through coaching, mentoring, expanded responsibilities, cross-functional experience, and targeted development.
Build long-term relationships with customers and ensure plant execution supports quality, delivery, responsiveness, and customer commitments.
Build strategic relationships with suppliers, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and other external partners; collaborate to resolve issues while protecting business relationships.
Represent the Greenville operation with business leadership, customers, suppliers, community stakeholders, and other external partners as appropriate.
Build cross-functional relationships across the organization and maintain a visible plant leadership presence that fosters communication, engagement, trust, accountability, and strong employee relations.
Establish safety as a foundational operating principle and embed appropriate systems, behaviors, and leadership accountability throughout the facility.
Champion a quality-first mindset and ensure the organization meets internal requirements and customer expectations.
Build a high-performance culture characterized by accountability, collaboration, transparency, urgency, ownership, and continuous improvement; communicate expectations for leadership behavior throughout the plant.