Plant Manager
Current- Ensure a safe working environment for all associates and drive to eliminate any environmental, health, and safety incidents.- Identify, implement, and track both long and short term strategies that ensure positive results in the areas of financial performance, manufacturing excellence, materials management, and inventory control.-Ensure that the quality systems for the factory are developed and sustained to ensuring that Customer receive the highest quality product possible.-Ensure that production goals are being met around KPIs (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, and Productivity) all while maintaining cost competitiveness.-Drive continuous improvement activities utilizing WCM principles and tools.- Cultivates & maintains strong relationships with management team, employees, customers and suppliers.-Focus on talent and organizational development, an effective succession planning system, and a culture focused on continuous improvement.- Establishes performance goals and objectives for factory operations. Provides feedback and corrective action to maintain progress toward achievement of goals and objectives.- Prepare technical and progress reports and manage capital budget for factory.- Ensure compliance with company policy, procedures and applicable regulations.- Review financial statements, sales and activity reports, and other performance data to measure productivity and goal achievement and to determine areas needing cost reduction and program improvement.- Identify ways to reduce production costs through recommendations – i.e. new process equipment, equipment justification to improve performance.- Follow new technologies and apply them into the production line within investment approval limits.- Provide technical evaluations and supporting analysis, reports and specifications.- Develop and implement new business strategies for creating or improving processes and procedures to improve performance.
