Plant Manager

Net sales greater than $180.0 Million Site size greater than 300,000 square feet Total Headcount greater than 300 Multiple Value Streams L1: Location: Mount Hope, Pensacola, and Lewistown L2: Reports to: Senior Vice President, Operations, and Transformation L3: Scope: Full Plant Operations – High Volume / Multi‑Value Stream The Plant Manager is responsible for leading all operational functions within a large, high‑volume manufacturing facility, ensuring safe, efficient, and high‑quality production in alignment with the ASD Lean Operating System. This role owns the plant’s Safety, People, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Cash, (SPQDCC) performance and serves as the senior operational leader for a site with multiple value streams, high throughput, and significant intercompany transfers. The Plant Manager provides enterprise‑level leadership, aligning multiple Value Stream Managers, support functions, and front‑line teams to deliver sustained results at scale. This role requires advanced capability in managing complexity, cross‑site coordination, and large leadership teams while driving cultural transformation and performance excellence. 1. Strategic Leadership & Plant Management Provide overall leadership for all plant operations, including EHS, manufacturing, materials, maintenance, quality, and engineering across multiple production areas or value streams. Translate corporate objectives into actionable plant strategies supporting high sales volume, throughput demands, and intercompany transfer requirements. Drive execution of the ASD Lean Operating System at scale, ensuring consistency across value streams, shifts, and support functions. Serve as the primary interface between the facility, enterprise leadership, and peer plant managers on network wide capacity, transfer, and load balancing decisions. Develop and manage a complex operating budget, balancing productivity, cost, working capital, and capital investment priorities. 2. Safety & Environmental Stewardship Establish and sustain a Zero Harm culture across a large employee population and multi shift operation. Lead visible safety engagement through routine Gemba walks, Tier escalation, and executive level incident reviews. Ensure full regulatory compliance (OSHA, EPA, local) while proactively managing risk in a high complexity environment. Partner with EHS & Sustainability leaders to drive energy reduction, environmental performance, and enterprise initiatives. Deliver sustained improvement in TRIR, near miss reporting, and corrective action effectiveness across the site. 3. Quality & Customer Value Own plant level quality performance for a high volume, multi customer manufacturing operation. Ensure robust execution of QCPs, standard work, and layered audits across all value streams. Drive systemic FPY improvement, warranty reduction, and defect prevention at scale. Partner with Quality and Engineering on advanced problem solving, systemic risk mitigation, and customer recovery plans. Lead Voice of the Customer deployment for complex customer portfolios and intercompany supply chains. 4. Delivery, Productivity & Cost Management Ensure on time delivery across internal and external customers, including intercompany transfer commitments. Lead Tier 3/4 operating rhythms, driving accountability for SPQDCC performance and countermeasures. Optimize throughput using Lean, automation, and capacity planning across multiple production lines. Manage labor strategy, staffing models, and overtime for a large workforce in a 24/7 or extended hours environment. Oversee asset reliability, TPM maturity, and execution of major capital and automation projects. 5. People Leadership & Development Lead, coach, and develop a large, multi layer leadership team of Focus Factory Managers, Department Managers, and support leaders. Build a strong succession pipeline capable of supporting site complexity and future growth. Foster a culture of engagement, inclusion, and accountability across a …

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