Plant Manager, Lebanon, TN

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Plant Manager to join the Power & Thermal Management division in Lebanon, TN. This position is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating production floor activities, ensuring that customer expectations, quality objectives, productivity, and cost-savings goals are met while providing a safe work environment for employees. The position will provide direct leadership to department supervisors and team leaders and provide support to production employees. Be part of something new. Our Lebanon, TN facility represents the next chapter of Starline's growth journey, featuring a modern manufacturing environment, advanced technologies, and exceptional opportunities for career development within Legrand's growing Power & Thermal Management Division. Oversees production management, including manufacturing operations, inventory, facilities, quality, supply chain, and planning. Actively engages with direct reports and other departments to understand issues, analyze information, and implement solutions and improvements. Continually reviews manufacturing processes and makes appropriate recommendations for lowering costs and improving productivity, efficiency, labor utilization, and/or quality. Assists with the annual strategic and business planning process, providing key input from production operations. Develops metrics and ensures proper reporting to track the performance of manufacturing operations against budget, including revenue projections, backlog action plans, schedule attainment, throughput, labor utilization, efficiency, scrap, and cost-containment initiatives. Partners with the Global OPEX Manager to support and lead OPEX and lean initiatives that drive process improvement. Champions and provides support for all safety, quality, and lean activities, including the adoption and implementation of the Legrand Way. Participates with and provides direction, as necessary, to shop floor supervisors in resolving immediate quality, production, scheduling, technical, or personnel issues. Coordinates plant activities through collaboration with staff to ensure customer expectations are met and activities align with manufacturing and budget objectives. Resolves production scheduling problems by quickly analyzing information and implementing short-term and long-term corrective actions. Proactively communicates information to peers and works to implement solutions that satisfy all parties’ expectations. Maintains an open dialogue regarding improvement activities and key operational targets and objectives. Ensures the personal and professional development of direct reports. Effectively manages, develops, and motivates direct and indirect reports. Provides effective, constructive, and appropriate feedback and leadership to direct reports to foster a positive team environment while establishing clear and measurable responsibilities and accountabilities. Actively oversees the inventory group, ensuring proper procedures are implemented to verify inventory accuracy. Communicates updates in a timely manner regarding goal progress, roadblocks, and solutions to the Senior Director of Global Operations. Ensures compliance with all safety, environmental, company, local, and federal regulations. Maintains the required active floor presence and holds regular meetings with employees on all shifts to ensure effective communication, teamwork, and cooperation. Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related field. MBA is a plus. Experience: Minimum of 15 years of experience in manufacturing/production. Minimum of seven years of plant management experience in a production and/or manufacturing environment, including direct responsibility for managing 250+ hourly and salaried employees. Lean, including value-stream mapping, experience. Six Sigma is a plus. SAP and/or ERP/MRP experience with Production, Inventory, and Quality modules. Experience working within quality systems. Demons…

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