Plant Manager

Travel: Approximately 20% | Company Vehicle Provided

Work Schedule: Approximately 50-55 hours per week

Employment Type: Full-Time

DSC is seeking an experienced Plant Manager to provide strategic and operational leadership for its Phenix City, Alabama manufacturing facility while maintaining overall leadership responsibility for the company's Montgomery, Alabama operation
. DSC specializes in automotive seat frames
, and automotive manufacturing experience is a hard requirement for this position.

The Plant Manager will have primary responsibility for Phenix City and overall accountability for the Montgomery facility, which has its own local leadership team. This is a key leadership role within a growing organization, with both facilities undergoing expansion and ramp-up activities.

The ideal candidate is a proven automotive manufacturing leader who can build collaborative relationships across departments, manage customer relationships during difficult situations, develop high-performing teams, and drive results in a fast-paced, multicultural manufacturing environment.

• Proven manufacturing leadership experience within the automotive industry - required.
• Tier 1 or Tier 2 automotive manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Experience leading multiple functional departments within a manufacturing facility.
• Experience with multi-site manufacturing leadership or operational oversight
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• Demonstrated success leading a plant through growth, expansion, launch, or ramp-up activities.
• Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement methodologies.
• Proven ability to build collaborative, cross-functional relationships across Production, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Materials, HR, and other departments.
• Strong customer-facing experience, including managing customer concerns, audits, business reviews, and executive-level meetings.
• Proven ability to respond quickly and effectively when customers are dissatisfied or experiencing a critical issue.
• Proven ability to develop, mentor, and retain high-performing teams and future manufacturing leaders.
• Strong understanding of plant performance metrics, including Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Employee Engagement.
• Ability to lead effectively across different languages, cultures, and communication styles.
• Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, growing automotive manufacturing environment.
• Strong communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Ability to travel approximately 20%, including customer travel and occasional travel between Phenix City and Montgomery.
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred, but not required.

• Experience managing a Tier 1 automotive supplier.
• Automotive seat frame or seating component manufacturing experience.
• Previous multi-site plant management or regional operational responsibility.
• Experience working within a Korean-led automotive manufacturing organization.
• Experience managing culturally diverse manufacturing work forces.
• Experience leading simultaneous plant expansion and new-location ramp-up activities.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, 5S, standard work, TPM, or other Continuous Improvement methodologies.
• Experience managing OEM customer relationships and customer escalation situations.
• Experience developing plant-level leadership teams and succession plans.
• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Engineering, Operations, Business, or related field preferred.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the Phenix City manufacturing facility
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• Maintain primary accountability for Phenix City performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost,…