PLANT MANAGER-CLEVELAND, TN
About The Position
Millwood, Inc. is seeking a Plant Manager for its Cleveland, TN location. This role is responsible for managing total plant operations and delivering superior customer satisfaction by driving results and exceeding expectations in the key areas of safety, service, quality, and cost. The Plant Manager ensures the overall operation of the plant, including its production, housekeeping, and safety goals, are met. This position supports the enforcement of company policies and procedures in a fair and consistent manner and upholds the core values of the company. The ideal candidate will be a solid businessperson with excellent technical skills, unquestioned personal integrity, and a strong work ethic, who appreciates and embraces the company's culture, mission, and values. They should be a genuine person with high integrity, trust, servitude, and discipleship, possessing excellent business, interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. The candidate must understand their responsibilities to the families of Millwood, respect past accomplishments, and be able to learn and add value to develop people strategies for recruiting, training, developing, and retaining World Class Associates, assisting in the Strategic Business Unit's growth plan and profitability goals.
Requirements
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and written
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
- Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Knowledge of word processing software, spreadsheet software, inventory software, payroll systems, internet software, human resources systems, and order processing systems.
- 5+ years in engineering or manufacturing experience desired
- Familiarity with fleet management/transportation
- Strong customer focus orientation
- Expert people management capability including hourly workers
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally
- Experience managing safety performance and programs
- Understanding of supply chain practices and metrics
- Superior ability to manage people and motivate a team
- Excellent problem-solving skills and strategic thinking ability
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s in operations/supply chain or related field preferred
- Six Sigma/Lean certification preferred
- Bilingual English/Spanish a plus.
Responsibilities
- Drive Safety improvements (Zero Harm) across the Plant
- Provide leadership to Plant staff to effectively recruit, train, develop, evaluate, motivate, delegate and monitor their activities
- Directs the work of all facility employees – establishes production and shipping schedules based on availability of raw and finished goods.
- Directly responsible for all employment decisions at the facility.
- Continually review operations activities, including local transportation activities to maintain compliance with all Federal, State and local laws (OSHA, DOL, DOJ, EPA, FD)
- Direct Plant administration to ensure compliance with established policies
- Develop a balanced approach to maximize the best operational practices and cost efficiencies across the Plant while maintaining critical quality and raw material utilization standards that are necessary to maintain customer satisfaction and Plant profitability
- Drive efficiencies in asset utilization through proper transportation scheduling, dispatch, & driver management while meeting customer expectations
- Ensure the consistent execution of all SOPs throughout the Plant and in accordance with the PMS Commercial Organization, Global Supply Chain
- Responsible for the cost and yield performance of the Plant in partnership with the overall P&L of the Plant
- Own and drive cost control initiatives and process control within the Plant
- Implementing the output of the plant network optimization, cell management
- Drive compliance through teamwork for all Standard Operating Procedures within the Plant
- Identify and execute Lean opportunities to effectively eliminate waste
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
