Plant Manager

Company Overview

CSP is the industry leader in the formulation and molding of lightweight, advanced composite components for the transportation industries. As an innovative, full-service Tier One supplier, we offer an entrepreneurial environment where you’re only limited by your own imagination. We provide industry-leading benefits called BENEfits4U, including affordable medical, dental, and vision care; flexible spending accounts; life insurance; and a 401(k) with company match.

Essential job functions include ensuring product launch objectives, project capital needs, and customer requirements are met on time while adhering to strict safety protocols. The plant manager is responsible for plant performance in manufacturing, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, quality, and delivery of products, and for maintaining quality and environmental certifications. The role involves coaching and training plant personnel, setting, evaluating and inspiring individual and team goals, and fostering a positive "get-it-done" culture.

Strategic, situational leadership is required to plan, direct and manage the entire operation, ensuring the development and implementation of efficient operational processes that meet current and future business requirements. The manager will organize and manage plant operation/production teams to meet designated targets and objectives, design practical processes and procedures that ensure accountability and KPI oversight, and create initiatives that drive optimization and improvements in overall operations performance, input, throughput and outputs.

The manager works with plant managers to collect and analyze data, improve manufacturing capacity, schedule, plan, organize, direct, and run day‑to‑day operations that meet or exceed internal expectations. The manager implements and maintains preventative maintenance programs, incorporates production floor organization and plant cleanliness, and applies extensive knowledge of business and management principles, such as budgeting, production planning, material flow, inventory management, resource allocation and human resource planning.

The manager increases production, asset capacity and flexibility while minimizing costs, maintaining quality standards, and implementing cost‑effective systems of control over capital, operating expenditures, manpower, wages and salaries. The manager establishes and implements short‑ and long‑range department goals, policies and operating procedures, monitors overall plant performance for production and quality standards, and provides direction, development and leadership for all operational departments.

The manager coordinates the scheduling and inventory activities with schedulers and/or materials managers, champions plant safety policies, manages safety committees, analyzes ERP system information, encourages open communication at all levels and serves as the key point of management to employees.

• 7–10 years of senior management experience in manufacturing operations, including a management position within automotive composite or plastic product manufacturing.

• Proven track record as Plant Manager with experience in continuous improvement/lean tools such as Six Sigma, 5‑S, Lean Manufacturing, and transactional lean.

• Strong team‑building, decision‑making and people‑management skills; direct P&L ownership and budget management.

• Ability to start or stop all production or plant operations and schedule necessary changes with production, logistics and materials teams.

• Broad knowledge of OSHA, workplace health and safety programs, regulatory requirements for operating plants, safety, quality, productivity, demand planning, inventory and resource allocation processes.

• Own‑it mentality, high energy, proactive teamwork, and a contagious desire to inspire the team toward shared goals.

• Highly organized, committed, analytical, autonomous, patient, persevering and persuasive.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, finance or management required. MBA highly preferred or equivalent experience.

• Affordable medical, dental and vision care

• Flexible spending accounts

• Life insurance

• 401(k) with company match