Plant Manager

*** Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship, now or in the future.**

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The Plant Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, performance, and results of our OE Fabrication and Assembly manufacturing facility acting as both a Tier 1 and Tier 2 supplier to our automotive OEM customers. This role owns all aspects of plant performance — safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people — while building a culture of continuous improvement and disciplined operating rhythm consistent with lean manufacturing principles.

The Plant Manager leads a unionized hourly workforce and a salaried staff, and serves as the primary site contact for customer, corporate, union, and community relationship

• al Champion a zero-incident safety culture: ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, and corporate EHS standards across all shift
• s.Ownership:
  Own site safety performance (TRIR, LTIR) and drive root-cause corrective action on all incidents and near-misse
• s.Environmental compliance:
  Ensure compliance with air, waste, and wastewater permits associated with glass manufacturing (e.g., tempering, coating, cutting operations
• ).Audits:
  Lead readiness for internal, corporate, and regulatory EHS audits, and maintain ISO 14001 / IATF 16949 environmental and safety requirement

s.Quali

• ty Customer standards:
  Maintain IATF 16949 quality system compliance and meet customer quality requirements, including PPM targets and data-driven problem-solvin
• g.Containment & response:
  Ensure rapid containment, root-cause analysis, and corrective/preventive action on any customer complaint, line-side issue, or quality escap
• e.Systems:
  Sustain robust in-process controls, error-proofing (poka-yoke), and layered process audits across glass forming, cutting, tempering, and encapsulation operation
• s.Customer relations hip:
  Serve as executive-level escalation contact for customer quality and supplier-performance review

s.Delivery & Customer Servi

• ceOn-time delivery:
  Meet 100% on-time, in-full delivery to our customers; manage risk in a just-in-time/just-in-sequence supply environmen
• t.Scheduling:
  Oversee production scheduling and capacity planning to align with customer releases and EDI/ASN requirement
• s.Contingency planning:
  Maintain and test contingency and business-continuity plans to protect customer supply in the event of equipment, material, or labor disruptio

n.Materials & Supply Cha

• in Inventory management:
  Oversee incoming and outgoing production inventory levels to balance service level with working capita
• l.Supplier coordination:
  Partner with corporate purchasing and site materials team on supplier performance, premium freight reduction, and material availabilit
• y.Warehouse & logistics:
  Ensure efficient receiving, staging, and shipping operations, including outbound logistics coordination with customer plant

s.Manufacturing Operations & KP

• Is Operating rhythm:
  Lead daily/weekly management system (tiered accountability meetings) driving safety, quality, delivery, cost, and morale (SQDCM) metric
• s.Performance metrics:
  Own plant KPIs including OEE, first-pass yield, scrap rate, throughput, labor productivity, and customer scorecard
• s.Continuous improve ment:
  Drive lean manufacturing, kaizen events, and structured problem solving to eliminate waste and variabilit
• y.Capacity & launch:
  Lead new-program launches and capacity expansions in partnership with engineering, quality, and program managemen
• ce Budget ownership:
  Develop and manage the plant's annual operating budget, capital plan, and cost-reduction roadma
• p.Cost control:
  Monitor and control conversion cost, labor cost, scrap/rework, utilities, and overtime against budget and productivity target
• s.Capital projects:
  Prioritize and justify capital investment for equipment, tooling, and facility improvements; deliver projects on time and on budge

t.Maintenance & Engineeri

• ng Asset reliability:
  Ensure preventive/predictive maintenance programs sustain equipment uptime for tempering furnaces, cutting tables, and coating/encapsulation line
• s.Engineering support:
  Partner with plant and corporate engineering on process improvement, tooling changes, equipment…