Senior Manufacturing Manager
About The Position
Join Procter & Gamble’s Lima, Ohio Plant as an Operations Department Manager. The role leads manufacturing operations, solves problems, and drives continuous improvement to produce high-quality products in a dynamic environment. From the start, the manager leads projects and teams producing globally recognized brands, with a focus on delivering high-quality products on time and at low cost. The manager leads daily operations and long-term planning, manages Process Engineers and Line Leaders, and strengthens production performance, systems, and team capabilities. The position includes responsibility for performance against quality, cost, delivery, safety, and team morale goals; continuous improvement and operator-led equipment care; collaboration across departments; team culture and development; staffing, budgets, and cost targets; and participation in plant-wide improvement and operating processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, preferably mechanical, electrical, industrial, or chemical; other engineering disciplines may be considered.
- 5–10 years of relevant work experience.
- Willingness to relocate during the career.
- Willingness to travel occasionally as required.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and guide teams.
- Strong people-management skills, including coaching, development, and career guidance for early-career managers.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across departments and with external stakeholders.
- Advanced operator-led equipment care qualification equivalent to the company’s Step 6 certification.
- Expertise in operational excellence, production loss analysis, maintenance planning and scheduling, daily performance and team routines, quality, health, safety, environmental practices, problem-solving, production management, and change management.
- Ability to meet site-aligned productivity, quality, cost, delivery, safety, and team morale targets.
Responsibilities
- Lead daily operations and long-term planning; manage Process Engineers and Line Leaders; and strengthen production performance, systems, and team capabilities.
- Meet quality, cost, delivery, safety, and team morale goals, and improve performance toward benchmarks.
- Align department strategy with plant priorities and support efficient, sustainable production.
- Lead daily performance management and continuous improvement using a plan-do-check-act approach.
- Establish standards, build team capabilities, sustain results, and ensure consistent assessments of operator-led equipment care.
- Partner across departments and functions to deliver business initiatives, adjusting priorities to meet plant-wide needs.
- Be accountable for team morale and support department and site culture action plans.
- Model company values, reinforce business priorities, and foster an inclusive workplace.
- Support the plant’s long-term vision and annual strategies.
- Lead management development and staffing, coach others across the organization, and support budgets and cost targets.
- Serve on a plant-wide improvement team, own a site-wide operating process, and share expertise across the plant.
- Prepare the department and assigned improvement area for the next stage of operational excellence.
Benefits
- Continuous mentorship, coaching, training, and guidance.
- Opportunity to learn and work with world-renowned technologies.
- Total rewards include salary, bonus if applicable, and benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
