Plant Manager

Position Summary The Plant Manager is responsible for the strategic and day-to-day leadership of a small manufacturing facility specializing in welded exhaust systems for OEM customers. This position oversees production, welding and fabrication operations, quality, maintenance, safety, warehouse, and shipping functions to ensure customer requirements, operational goals, and business objectives are achieved. The Plant Manager drives operational excellence through safe manufacturing practices, superior product quality, on-time delivery, employee development, and continuous improvement. This role collaborates closely with Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Human Resources, Finance, and OEM customer representatives to maintain a high-performing manufacturing operation. Key Responsibilities Leadership & Organizational Development Lead, coach, and develop supervisors, team leaders, and production personnel. Establish operational goals, objectives, performance expectations, and accountability standards. Build a culture of accountability, teamwork, safety, respect, and continuous improvement. Ensure effective staffing, workforce planning, succession planning, and talent development. Promote employee engagement and maintain positive employee relations throughout the facility. Support cross-functional collaboration among Production, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and Finance. Manufacturing Operations Management Direct daily production activities, including welding, fabrication, assembly, packaging, warehousing, and shipping. Ensure production schedules are achieved while meeting customer quality and delivery requirements. Monitor operational performance and implement timely corrective actions when targets are not met. Manage labor utilization, overtime, workflow efficiency, capacity, material flow, and production priorities. Establish and maintain standard work, visual controls, performance metrics, and daily accountability routines. Welding & Fabrication Operations Provide leadership and oversight for welding and metal fabrication activities. Ensure welding operations comply with approved work instructions, engineering specifications, process parameters, and customer requirements. Support best practices for MIG, TIG, robotic, and resistance welding processes, as applicable. Collaborate with Engineering on process improvements, tooling, equipment upgrades, new product launches, and production readiness. Monitor process capability and lead corrective actions to improve weld quality, throughput, and consistency. OEM Customer Performance Maintain strong focus on customer satisfaction, quality performance, responsiveness, and on-time delivery. Ensure OEM customer-specific requirements are communicated, understood, and incorporated into plant processes. Support customer audits, plant visits, launch activities, performance reviews, and corrective action responses. Lead containment and recovery activities related to customer concerns or delivery risk. Partner with Sales, Engineering, Quality, and Supply Chain to meet customer expectations. Quality Management Partner with Quality leadership to maintain compliance with applicable quality management systems and customer-specific requirements. Drive improvements in customer PPM, scrap, rework, first-pass yield, and process consistency. Review quality metrics, audit findings, customer complaints, and corrective action progress. Promote root cause analysis, mistake-proofing, preventive action, and quality at the source. Ensure product and process control requirements are consistently followed. Safety, Compliance & Risk Management Ensure compliance with OSHA requirements, environmental regulations, and company safety policies. Lead plant safety initiatives, meetings, audits, inspections, training, and corrective actions. Promote proactive hazard identification, near-miss reporting, and risk reduction. Partner with EHS and Human Resources on incident investigations,…

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