Plant Manager

LOOS & CO., INC., 16B Mashamoquet Road, Pomfret, Connecticut, United States of America

As the only fully integrated maker of premium quality wire, rope, and assemblies, Loos & Co holds a leading position in the global aerospace sector.

A division of the Central Wire (CWI) Group of Companies encompassing 12 locations in three countries, 750+ employees, and over six decades of excellence, Loos & Co solutions are found in mission critical flight control applications. Our precision-manufactured components are also used for defense, med tech, and heavy industry purposes around the world, in large part because of the people behind our products.

The Plant Manager plans, directs, and controls plant operations at the Pomfret Center, Connecticut facility to manufacture wire, wire rope and strand, coated cable, cable and mechanical assemblies, and precision-machined components in accordance with safety, quality, cost, quantity, and delivery requirements.

The essential function of the position is to exercise independent managerial judgment and provide sustained leadership of production and maintenance, including directing leaders and employees, allocating labor and equipment, monitoring operational and financial performance, developing workforce capability, and implementing corrective and continuous-improvement actions.

The role translates business objectives into disciplined daily execution while maintaining process control, equipment reliability, customer confidence, and compliance with applicable Company, customer, quality-system, and regulatory requirements.

• Provide overall leadership for Pomfret Center production and maintenance operations across wire drawing, wire rope and strand, extrusion and coating, cable and mechanical assembly, machining, testing, and related material-flow activities; establish clear expectations for safety, quality, delivery, productivity, cost, attendance, conduct, and continuous improvement.
• Direct, coach, and develop production and maintenance leaders and employees; establish accountabilities, review performance, build bench strength, support succession planning, and make or recommend personnel decisions consistent with delegated authority and Company policy.
• Develop and execute integrated production plans that align labor, materials, equipment, tooling, priorities, interdepartmental flow, capacity, and maintenance availability with customer specifications, delivery commitments, and plant objectives.
• Monitor plant performance through daily management systems and key performance indicators, including safety, schedule attainment, on-time delivery, throughput, labor efficiency, scrap, yield, downtime, quality, customer complaints, inventory accuracy, employee retention, and budget performance.
• Maintain a safe work environment; enforce safety requirements; lead observations, incident investigations, corrective actions, risk-reduction efforts, emergency preparedness, and employee participation in safety programs.
• Ensure products and processes conform to customer specifications, Mil-Spec and other contractual requirements, internal standards, documented procedures, and applicable quality-system requirements, with particular attention to mission-critical aerospace, military and defense, medical, industrial, and commercial applications.
• Champion an effective quality culture in partnership with Quality, including process discipline, traceability, change control, inspection and testing effectiveness, nonconformance containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and prevention of recurrence.
• Support and sustain AS9100 and ISO 9001 requirements, applicable customer approvals and specifications, product traceability, and audit-ready operating controls; ensure readiness for internal, customer, registrar, and regulatory audits.
• Lead structured problem solving and continuous improvement initiatives using verified data, defined baselines, measurable outcomes, documented controls, and accountability for sustaining gains.
• Identify and remove production constraints, process variation, bottlenecks, non-value-added activity, and sources of quality loss; improve flow, capability, cycle time, yield, reliability, and cost.
• Lead the maintenance function to strengthen preventive and predictive maintenance, equipment uptime, spare-parts controls, work-order discipline, repair prioritization, and long-term asset reliability.
• Partner with Engineering and Maintenance on equipment upgrades, automation, capacity expansion, facility needs, capital projects, and modernization initiatives; develop business cases and ensure safe, controlled implementation.
• Own plant operating budgets and controllable spending; analyze labor, overtime, material usage, yield, scrap, downtime, maintenance expense, and other operating costs; support forecasting, annual planning, and capital justification.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement while maintaining clear…