Plant Manager

Description
Sanmina Corporation (Nasdaq: SANM) is a global powerhouse in integrated manufacturing solutions serving the fastest-growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. We are a global engine providing the end-to-end manufacturing backbone for the world’s most essential and innovative brands. Whether it’s autonomous vehicles, life-saving medical technology, next-generation aerospace, or AI/cloud infrastructure, our integrated solutions don’t just meet standards—they redefine them.

Description
Sanmina Corporation (Nasdaq: SANM) is a global powerhouse in integrated manufacturing solutions serving the fastest-growing segments of the global Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) market. We are a global engine providing the end-to-end manufacturing backbone for the world’s most essential and innovative brands. Whether it’s autonomous vehicles, life-saving medical technology, next-generation aerospace, or AI/cloud infrastructure, our integrated solutions don’t just meet standards—they redefine them.

Summary
The Plant Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, strategic direction, and financial performance of the manufacturing facility in Carrollton, Texas. This role oversees plant operations, manufacturing engineering, quality, continuous improvement, customer relationships, and business development. The Plant Manager drives operational excellence, revenue and profitability growth, customer satisfaction, and manufacturing innovation while ensuring the facility meets its production, quality, cost, and delivery objectives.
What You’ll Do
Lead all plant operations and cross-functional teams to achieve production, quality, delivery, cost, and revenue targets.

• Maintain full profit and loss (P&L) responsibility, including budgeting, financial planning, labor management, and capital expenditure decisions.
• Develop and execute short- and long-term strategies aligned with business objectives, customer requirements, and divisional growth opportunities.
• Provide leadership and oversight to manufacturing, process, industrial, automation, and quality engineering teams.
• Drive manufacturing process optimization, equipment utilization, production efficiency, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead quality engineering programs, including statistical process control (SPC), root cause analysis, corrective actions, reliability engineering, and process capability improvement.
• Oversee New Product Introduction (NPI) programs to ensure manufacturability, process readiness, quality performance, and successful production launches.
• Collaborate with program management, engineering, customers, suppliers, and corporate leadership to support technical requirements and business development.
• Evaluate manufacturing capacity, product mix, production loading, material requirements, and operating costs to maximize plant performance and profitability.
• Build and maintain strong customer relationships, promote customer satisfaction, and identify opportunities to expand existing business and secure new programs.
• Establish a culture of accountability, operational discipline, employee development, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure manufacturing operations comply with applicable company policies, quality standards, safety requirements, and regulatory obligations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Business Administration with a strong technical focus, or a related discipline.
• 10–15+ years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing operations, preferably in similarly sized or larger manufacturing facilities.
• Demonstrated success in plant management, operations management,…