Columbus McKinnon
Plant Manager
Columbus McKinnon, Wadesboro, North Carolina, United States, 28170
Job Summary/Overview
The Plant Manager provides senior leadership at plant level and creates a positive environment for all associates. This leader drives customer service excellence, best-in-class quality, and high operating efficiency with outstanding manufacturing agility through lean and continuous improvement.Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Plans, implements and oversees manufacturing plant organization policies and goals.Leverage KPI's and action plans to ensure effective daily management of operations inclusive of materials, quality, machining, assembly, shipping/receiving.Coordinate activities of departments such as manufacturing, engineering, production control, materials management, quality, service, and maintenance to ensure customer service excellence, high quality, cost control, and operational efficiency.Drive transformational change throughout the plant in coordination with business unit strategies and plans.Work with the plant management team to continuously improve manufacturing and other plant processes through Lean, Six-Sigma, and other similar metric driven methods.Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development.Manage morale and turnover through building an understanding of what motivates your team members.Communicate the vision from senior leadership and set and communicate business objectives for your team that align with this vision.Manage the day-to-day activities and motivate team members to succeed in a fast-paced collaborative agile environment centered on software development.Guide and support plant resources in capital investments, material management, and labor & overhead productivity plans.Confers with administrative personnel and reviews business activity including related operating and sales reports to ensure customer service excellence, quality, and operational efficiency.Knowledge, Skills, Competencies, and Abilities
Demonstrated expertise in adding value through leadership by building strong high performing teams and achieving successful outcomes on complicated programs.Acts independently or as a member of a project team responsible for providing technical process guidance concerning the business implications of the application of various systems.Demonstrated success in a high mix ETO manufacturing environment of products with complex BOM structure.A team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.Strong organizational skills and detail oriented.Ability to think abstractly to deal with ambiguous/undefined problems.Must possess a very strong background in Lean Manufacturing. Requires good people management, motivational and leadership skills.Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or 10+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.10+ year operations experience involving materials management, machining, manufacturing engineering, quality, production, and warehousing.5+ years proven track record of Plant Manager experience and/or progressive experiences in plant management to include operations, production, value stream, factory manager.
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The Plant Manager provides senior leadership at plant level and creates a positive environment for all associates. This leader drives customer service excellence, best-in-class quality, and high operating efficiency with outstanding manufacturing agility through lean and continuous improvement.Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Plans, implements and oversees manufacturing plant organization policies and goals.Leverage KPI's and action plans to ensure effective daily management of operations inclusive of materials, quality, machining, assembly, shipping/receiving.Coordinate activities of departments such as manufacturing, engineering, production control, materials management, quality, service, and maintenance to ensure customer service excellence, high quality, cost control, and operational efficiency.Drive transformational change throughout the plant in coordination with business unit strategies and plans.Work with the plant management team to continuously improve manufacturing and other plant processes through Lean, Six-Sigma, and other similar metric driven methods.Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead team members to their optimum performance levels and career development.Manage morale and turnover through building an understanding of what motivates your team members.Communicate the vision from senior leadership and set and communicate business objectives for your team that align with this vision.Manage the day-to-day activities and motivate team members to succeed in a fast-paced collaborative agile environment centered on software development.Guide and support plant resources in capital investments, material management, and labor & overhead productivity plans.Confers with administrative personnel and reviews business activity including related operating and sales reports to ensure customer service excellence, quality, and operational efficiency.Knowledge, Skills, Competencies, and Abilities
Demonstrated expertise in adding value through leadership by building strong high performing teams and achieving successful outcomes on complicated programs.Acts independently or as a member of a project team responsible for providing technical process guidance concerning the business implications of the application of various systems.Demonstrated success in a high mix ETO manufacturing environment of products with complex BOM structure.A team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills.Strong organizational skills and detail oriented.Ability to think abstractly to deal with ambiguous/undefined problems.Must possess a very strong background in Lean Manufacturing. Requires good people management, motivational and leadership skills.Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or 10+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.10+ year operations experience involving materials management, machining, manufacturing engineering, quality, production, and warehousing.5+ years proven track record of Plant Manager experience and/or progressive experiences in plant management to include operations, production, value stream, factory manager.
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