Director, Plant Manager

Position Overview and Responsibilities
Responsible for Elland, the Plant Director manages and directs directing all
manufacturing activities a plant or production process, including production, materials,
quality control, and manufacturing engineering, to produce products in the most cost effective way, while meeting shipping requirements and sales commitments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Operations Management, Operational Excellence, Safety, Continuous

Improvement, Manufacturing Engineering, and plant Procurement functions

• Establish processes to ensure manufacturing capabilities meet or exceed

requirements for EHS, cost, quality, delivery, and responsiveness

• Drive plant breakthrough operational performance by increasing productivity and

reducing cost, lead-time and inventory while delivering a quality product complete
and on-time to the customer

• Continuously improve customer satisfaction through improved product quality First

Pass Quality and On Time In Full

• Implement and deliver a continuous improvement environment/culture
• Develop key metrics to measure the plants performance and aligning area key

performance metrics with overall platform goals; organizing resources to deliver on
these metrics

• Support new product launches and other manufacturing projects/initiatives
• Oversee financial and cost management processes to ensure delivery against

performance targets

• Develop requests for capital and implement in accordance with approved plans
• Partner with peers in Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Footprint, HSE,

Planning and Engineering etc.

• Develop and recommend annual and multi-year strategic manufacturing plans,

capital, and special projects

• Manage resource productivity to result in manufacturing and material cost

reductions

• Meet or exceed On-Time Delivery (OTD) standards
• Own and reduce past due backlog using a continuous / solutions drive approach

Qualifications & Experience

• BS or BA Degree in relevant field
• 10+ years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment, including min. 4

years leading teams

• Strong record of safety performance in a manufacturing plant
• Plant Management/Operations experience in low volume / high mix environment of

similar size and scale

• Asset intensive, discrete manufacturing experience across various manufacturing

functions, such as manufacturing, engineering, CIP, supply chain, quality, EHS,
and related

• Experience in materials management, supply chain, inventory control, planning

and/or logistics

• Experience in a manufacturing to order (must) or engineered-to-order (preferred)

environment

• Track record meeting/exceeding KPI’s in manufacturing cost reduction and

productivity improvement, EHS and related

• Track record implementing continuous improvement / lean initiatives for YoY

results

• Experience developing and managing budgets, schedules, capital expenditure

plans with an understanding of the financial implications of operational strategies

• Proven leadership and people management skills – ability to foster effective

relationships amongst manufacturing teams