Plant Manager

Employbridge has a client in Albuquerque, NM who is looking for a Plant Manager to join their team. This is a client that is growing, with opportunity for advancement, great benefits and competitive salary!

Job Duties

• Oversight of all aspects of production including, but not limited to, capital expenditures, direct labor staffing, procurement and inventory management, forecasting and managing production capacity, yield improvement and cost reduction, efficient process development, career development of direct and indirect reports, and workplace safety.
• Provide leadership on all legacy sales including customer interface, pricing, technical support, sales order management, and internal sales.
• Responsible for ensuring staffing levels of qualified personnel to meet current requirements
• Implement strategic and tactical plans to meet future staffing requirements and to raise staff performance levels. This includes succession planning and training opportunities
• Lead the site utilizing all aspects of the Company model including Daily Management, Monthly Business Reviews, Goal Deployment, 80 / 20 Focus, and the Organization and Talent Cycle - just to name a few
• Create and implement effective processes and procedures, as well as structured scheduling and planning processes.
• Own the leadership, culture and productivity of site.
• Ensure that facilities are structured to meet present and future operations requirements
• Ensure manufacturing operations are completed in standard times and at standard costs
• Determine root cause with any issues that arise and ensure implementation of effective corrective actions.
• Manage all production processes to assure that manufacturing consistently ships quality product on time.
• Maintain current ISO certification by following ISO policies and processes, participating and managing audits, and training employees as required.
• Responsible for planning and executing Annual Operating Plans and overall responsibility for achieving Manufacturing Profit targets.
• Improve manufacturing and material management processes through use of LEAN principles and productivity measurements.
• Drive system and improvements to the ERP system functionality
• Partner with centralized Supply Chain team to develop and implement effective supply-chain management practices to reduce overall costs, improve product quality and assure stable sources of supply.
• Effectively manage, train, and motivate all direct and indirect subordinates, as a team, to maximize the overall productivity of operations.
• Manage preventive maintenance program for equipment and tooling in support of process and product excellence.
• Drive safety throughout Operations and identify preventive plans to prevent accidents.
• Develop and implement programs to eliminate safety and / or ergonomic hazards.
• Maintain effective accountability for the performance of all team members.
• Other duties as assigned.

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