Plant Manager

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Marmon Aerospace & Defense LLC

As a part of the global industrial organization Marmon Holdings—which is backed by Berkshire Hathaway—you’ll be doing things that matter, leading at every level, and winning a better way. We’re committed to making a positive impact on the world, providing you with diverse learning and working opportunities, and fostering a culture where everyone’s empowered to be their best.

The highest authority in the plant responsible for the daily operations, efficiency, safety, and quality.

The Plant Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, strategic direction, and operational performance of Marmon Defense’s Manchester Wire and Cable manufacturing facility. This role oversees all continuous improvement, production, maintenance, and shipping activities while ensuring a world‑class safety culture, operational discipline, and alignment to customer, business, and compliance requirements. This role also sets and executes long‑term operational strategy, enables future growth, and strengthens customer confidence through responsiveness, reliability, and operational consistency.

The Plant Manager is a hands‑on, people‑first leader with focus on coaching, developing talent, driving cross‑functional collaboration, building resilient and high‑performing teams, and fostering a culture of accountability, operational excellence, continuous learning, and trust. This role has P&L responsibility for the direct cost drivers of the facility and needs to ensure financial goals are met by managing costs and maximizing revenue generation opportunities, while ensuring best‑in‑class quality standards.

• Champion and drive a safety‑first culture throughout the facility with employee feedback and participation in driving improvement in the safety culture, ensuring compliance with all safety regulations, and implementing and sustaining ongoing safety training and initiatives.
• Ownership of Safety Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the facility and driving improvement of such.
• Regularly assess and update safety protocols, ensuring a safe working environment for all employees.
• Lead behavior‑based safety initiatives, auditing routines, risk identification, root cause investigations, and implementation of corrective/preventive actions.
• Ensure robust Job Hazard Analysis process for all new or modified equipment and processes.
• Champion plant and enterprise‑wide continuous improvement culture through LEAN and Kaizen initiatives, fostering broad employee involvement and ownership to streamline processes, reduce waste, and improve overall efficiency.
• Mentor team members across all levels to adopt a problem‑solving mindset grounded in data‑based decisions, curiosity, and shared accountability.
• Partner with Applications and Process Engineering, Quality, and other business functions to implement improvements that reduce waste and scrap, improve yield and quality, and optimize throughput.
• Analyze financial performance and identify areas for improvement, implementing corrective actions to enhance profitability.

• Build a culture of ownership of quality at the source, coaching leaders and operators in quality awareness, documentation accuracy, and risk reduction.
• Ensure all products meet rigorous aerospace and defense industry standards such as AS9100, customer‑specific compliance, and facility maintains compliance audit readiness.
• Oversee implementation and sustainment of in‑process quality inspections conducted by Operations.
• Collaboration with Quality, Supply Chain, and Process Engineering on root cause investigation, implementing and sustaining corrective actions, and investigating and implementing robust quality control systems to identify and correct defects early in the production process.
• Drive culture of accurate reporting of inventory such as finished good production, scrap, and other future metrics within company’s systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and real‑time data tracking.

• Lead and oversee daily…