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Plant Manager

Lensa
Hartford, CT Full Time
POSTED ON 3/26/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/24/2026
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Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security

At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 30 brands, 12,000 employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, in 2024 we were awarded the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award, which recognizes the most engaged workplace cultures in the world.

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Stanley Access Technologies is recognized as an industry leader in the manufacturing, installation, and servicing of automatic doors. Our growing product and service offerings have driven significant growth for our service business. Join our world class team of diligent problem solvers, innovators, fresh thinkers, and communicators who excite and inspire others.

Plant Manager

The Plant Manager is responsible for driving continuous and significant improvements in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, cost, and working capital. This will be achieved by developing a world class plant operations organization and methodically implementing the strategic objectives (a unique combination of strategic planning, strategy deployment, lean management, and manufacturing techniques).

What You Will Do

  • Drive rapid, significant and sustainable improvement in on-time delivery, lot size, lead time and cost reduction
  • Provide the leadership necessary for the development and execution of a manufacturing 5 yr strategy.
  • Lead regular KPI reviews with the Operational and Business unit leaders
  • Leads the development and implementation of the roadmap to achieve breakthrough operating performance (5S, SMED, TPM, etc)
  • Coach and mentor an outstanding team
  • Ensure key manufacturing metrics and key performance indicator systems are consistently tracked
  • Continually evolve manufacturing efficiency and assess opportunities to reduce cost, taking aggressive action to drive financial performance
  • Oversee coordination of the manufacturing function with sales, marketing, design engineering, and other functional organizations
  • Continually benchmark best practices and drive use of such across responsible operations

What You Need To Succeed

  • Bachelor's Degree, Industrial Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering preferred.
  • Ten years manufacturing operations leadership experience.

Additional Preferred Skills And Qualifications

  • The potential to lead larger and more strategically complex manufacturing organizations or assume a full P&L general management assignment is desired.
  • The successful candidate will also be a strong developer of people and teams, believing it a critical component in driving organizational change and effectiveness.
  • Highly customer responsive.
  • Very resourceful, combining strong manufacturing and technical abilities with good overall management acumen.
  • Ability and passion to lean operating system culture.
  • Understanding of non-repetitive, configurable manufacturing processes.
  • Ability to create followership and lead an organization through significant change and improvement.
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to effectively communicate. throughout all levels of the organization.
  • Possesses a high sense of urgency.
  • Unwavering credibility with the ability to build consensuses.
  • Ability to build relationships between all business functions.

Why Work for Us?

Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if:

  • You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there's plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, "this is your business, run with it".
  • You're looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us.
  • You want a culture that promotes work-life balance. Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work!
  • You want to work for an award-winning company that invests in its people. Allegion is proud to be a recipient of the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for the second year in a row, recognizing our commitment to employee engagement, strengths-based development, and unlocking human potential.

What You'll Get From Us

  • Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you "be safe, be healthy"??
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, which currently offers a 6% company match and no vesting period?
  • Health Savings Accounts - Tax-advantaged savings account used for healthcare expenses
  • Flexible Spending Accounts - Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare and/or dependent daycare expenses
  • Disability Insurance -Short-Term and Long-Term coverage, paid for by Allegion, provides income replacement for illness or injury
  • Life Insurance - Term life coverage with the option to purchase supplemental coverage
  • Tuition Reimbursement??
  • Voluntary Wellness Program - Simply complete wellness activities and earn monetary rewards
  • Employee Discounts through Perks at Work?
  • Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can "serve others, not yourself"?
  • Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths assessment & coaching?

Apply Today!

Join our team of experts today and help us make tomorrow's world a safer place!

Not sure if your experience perfectly aligns with the role? ?Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification and every single preferred qualification of a job posting. At Allegion, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every item in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role.

We Celebrate Who We Are!

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we're required to, but because it's the right thing to do. We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team (Careers@Allegion.com) .

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