Director, Plant Manager

Position Overview and Responsibilities
Responsible for Elland, the Plant Director manages and directs directing all 
manufacturing activities a plant or production process, including production, materials, 
quality control, and manufacturing engineering, to produce products in the most cost effective way, while meeting shipping requirements and sales commitments. 

Key Responsibilities
• Lead Operations Management, Operational Excellence, Safety, Continuous 
Improvement, Manufacturing Engineering, and plant Procurement functions
• Establish processes to ensure manufacturing capabilities meet or exceed 
requirements for EHS, cost, quality, delivery, and responsiveness
• Drive plant breakthrough operational performance by increasing productivity and 
reducing cost, lead-time and inventory while delivering a quality product complete 
and on-time to the customer
• Continuously improve customer satisfaction through improved product quality First 
Pass Quality and On Time In Full
• Implement and deliver a continuous improvement environment/culture
• Develop key metrics to measure the plants performance and aligning area key 
performance metrics with overall platform goals; organizing resources to deliver on 
these metrics
• Support new product launches and other manufacturing projects/initiatives
• Oversee financial and cost management processes to ensure delivery against 
performance targets
• Develop requests for capital and implement in accordance with approved plans
• Partner with peers in Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Footprint, HSE, 
Planning and Engineering etc.
• Develop and recommend annual and multi-year strategic manufacturing plans, 
capital, and special projects
• Manage resource productivity to result in manufacturing and material cost 
reductions
• Meet or exceed On-Time Delivery (OTD) standards
• Own and reduce past due backlog using a continuous / solutions drive approach

Qualifications & Experience
• BS or BA Degree in relevant field
• 10+ years of relevant experience in a manufacturing environment, including min. 4 
years leading teams
• Strong record of safety performance in a manufacturing plant
• Plant Management/Operations experience in low volume / high mix environment of 
similar size and scale
• Asset intensive, discrete manufacturing experience across various manufacturing 
functions, such as manufacturing, engineering, CIP, supply chain, quality, EHS, 
and related
• Experience in materials management, supply chain, inventory control, planning 
and/or logistics
• Experience in a manufacturing to order (must) or engineered-to-order (preferred) 
environment
• Track record meeting/exceeding KPI’s in manufacturing cost reduction and 
productivity improvement, EHS and related
• Track record implementing continuous improvement / lean initiatives for YoY 
results
• Experience developing and managing budgets, schedules, capital expenditure 
plans with an understanding of the financial implications of operational strategies
• Proven leadership and people management skills – ability to foster effective 
relationships amongst manufacturing teams