Plant Manager

Company Overview:

Nelson Global engineers, manufactures, and distributes clean and efficient Air & Fluid Transfer, NVH, Complex Structural, Acoustic, and Thermal Management Solutions. Nelson Global partners with the world’s leading OEMs. With 22 global manufacturing and distribution facilities and unparalleled engineering and innovation capabilities, Nelson Global provides mission critical solutions with the highest degree of reliability at the lowest cost. Our dedication to serving our employees, partners, and the planet responsibly is realized across three pillars of sustainability: environmental, social, and governance. By empowering our people, reducing waste, and developing innovative and efficient systems, we support the communities and resources that spur the industries and technologies of the future.

Position Overview:

The Plant Manager role owns the P&L for the facility, formulates plans and directs the departments responsible for the safety, quality, planning, manufacture and delivery of product at the plant level. Within this position, you must exceed our customer's requirements for quality, delivery and the company's requirement to improve profitability and foster growth.

Primary Responsibilities & Duties:

• Responsible for full P&L of facility and operations
• Responsible for all plant operational KPI’s and executing strategic and tactical plans to improve: o Safety – Injury rate, etc.
  • Quality – Customer Quality, etc.
  • Delivery – On Time Delivery, Past Due, etc.
  • Cost – Product cost, managed expense control, working capital management
  • People – Attrition, Absenteeism, etc.
• Lead and develop the Plant Operations Team/Staff including responsibility for:
  • Environmental Health and Safety of all team members
  • Product Quality and Quality Systems
  • Nelson Excellence Systems (NES) / Lean manufacturing principles
  • Manufacturing Operations
  • Cost Reduction via our Value Creation Pillars (VCP)
  • Materials Management – Sales, Inventory, Operations planning (SIOP)
  • Manufacturing Engineering
  • Maintenance
  • Finance
  • Human Resources – Staffing, Training, Team Member development; Employee Engagement
• Lead plant financial forecasting process including but not limited to S&OP, labor planning, managed expense planning, inventory
• Collaborate and partner with other NGP Plant managers on items such as material acquisition, labor utilization, supply agreements, etc.
• Partner with sales/commercial organization to ensure alignment between sales pipeline/strategy and manufacturing capacity/utilization.
• Participate in long-term planning activities, such as AOP planning & staff/headcount utilization to achieve business objectives (safety, quality, delivery, financials, etc.) and targets.
• Manage and develop Plant Management staff
• Actively promote Right Environment, employee morale and productivity
• Actively coordinate and lead continuous improvement initiatives as part of Nelson Excellence System (NES), using Lean Manufacturing principles/practices and 6-Sigma methodologies.
• Ensure plant certification of appropriate standards, such as ISO, IATF, etc.
• Provide leadership in new product launch activities at the plant
• Other projects and duties as required

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field
• 10 years of plant management or operations management experience

Skills & Abilities:

• Considerable knowledge of all Plant functions
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Positive Leadership skills – excellent judgment and decision making, motivation, mentoring and management skills
• Excellent computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Lean Manufacturing experience – 6-Sigma, Lean, Quality, etc.
• Teamwork, Coaching and Development,
• Attention to detail