Plant Manager

Overview:
**Piston Automotive** wasn’t just founded to make things. It was founded to make things better. And that begins with building better teams solely dedicated to achieving excellence at every level of execution through a combination of experience, expertise, and a deep seeded passion for what we do. Our assemblies consistently set the standard because our people consistently raise the bar.

**Responsibilities**:

- Plans and monitors both short and long-term budgets to ensure the plant meets the sites financial commitments.
- Coordinate plant activities through the planning with departmental managers to insure the manufacturing objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Implement cost effective systems of control over capital, operating expenditures, manpower, wages and salaries.
- Will oversee all new product launch activities within the site and ensure successful execution
- Responsible for oversight and execution of new product launch activities within the site
- Execute the corporations manufacturing strategy, prioritizing work as required and interacting with all the organization's departments to maintain and improve operations performance while building customer relationships
- Analyze and lead resolution of manufacturing initiatives and core issues, participate in planning and recommendation of space, personnel, and equipment.
- Will execute the corporations manufacturing strategy and will prioritize work as required and interact with all the organization's departments to maintain and improve on-time deliveries of product while building customer relationships
- In collaboration with Human Resources develops and maintains a productive work team by assisting in creating programs for hiring, training, and professional development of hourly and salaried staff.
- Analyze and lead resolution of manufacturing trends and core issues, participate in planning and recommendation of space, personnel, and equipment.
- Will establish, implement, and deliver Structural Continuous Improvement Manufacturing Excellence principles to meet and improve upon operational performance and customer requirements.
- Adherence to all Piston Group and Business Unit company standards including executing new technologies
- Manages capital asset maintenance.
- Establish and monitor overall plant performance for production and quality standards.
- Control and minimize overtime, premium freight and repair expenses.
- Maintain existing plant facilities and equipment; replace, or make adjustments to plant facilities and equipment when necessary.
- Provide leadership and training to accomplish the company goals and objectives in a safe manner.
- Implements and maintains preventative maintenance programs.
- Incorporates shop floor organization and plant cleanliness among plant personnel.
- Ensure all legal requirements, company safety procedures, and local and state health and safety regulations are met.

Qualifications:
**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- A Minimum 10-15 years of manufacturing operations experience
- Must have five (5) years experience as Plant Manager in an automotive setting
- Experience in managing launches at a tier 1 automotive supplier
- A minimum of eight (8) years of experience managing in a union environment.
- Eight (8) years of experience leading salaried employees
- A minimum of eight (8) years of experience with:

- Lean Manufacturing Principles
- 5-S
- Kanban
- Kaizen
- Poka-Yoke
- Six Sigma
- Root Cause Analysis
- Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Business, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Highly motivated self-starter with strong leadership skills capable of managing multiple cross-functional teams and projects.
- Excellent communication skills required, as well as have and the ability to work effectively with all other functional groups throughout the organization
- Possess excellent interpersonal skills that will enable the director the ability to lead, motivate, and get results in a matrix organization.
- Required to think strategically in order to adapt to a changing environment.
- Ability to create and implement cost reductions thru continuous improvement methodologies.
- Customer-focused individual with exceptional problem-solving skills and a strong sense of urgency.
- Able to motivate and lead technical teams
- Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and color vision.

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