Plant Manager

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Reports to:

VP of Manufacturing, Stellar Energy

Supervisory Responsibility:
Production Team

Location:

Fort Worth, TX

Stellar Energy is a trusted provider of turnkey liquid-to-chip cooling solutions for the world’s leading data center and industrial manufacturing customers. As computing demand and industrial processes continue to grow, modern facilities require cooling infrastructure that can scale quickly, efficiently, and reliably.

Our modular approach enables high-volume production while maintaining the flexibility to customize each solution. From Central Utility Plants to Coolant Distribution Units, Stellar Energy delivers scalable cooling infrastructure designed to support the rapid expansion of data centers and mission-critical industrial operations.

Backed by deep engineering expertise and large-scale manufacturing capability, Stellar Energy helps customers deploy critical infrastructure faster and with confidence.

The Plant Manager will plan, organize, staff, and direct all activities of our Haslet, TX manufacturing facility, a key site for producing state-of-the-art modular chiller plant systems that provide critical cooling for data centers. Reporting to the VP of Manufacturing, this leader will be responsible for achieving plant and sector goals for safety, quality, growth, profitability, productivity, customer satisfaction, and employee engagement.

The Plant Manager will also lead all production and plant operations to ensure the effective utilization of resources in a dynamic engineer-to-order (ETO) environment.

• Operational Leadership:
  Direct and coordinate all plant functions, including Manufacturing Operations, Materials, Production Control, Purchasing, Quality Assurance, Planning, Human Resources, Accounting, Manufacturing Engineering, and Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S). This plant is a green field site in-process of rapidly ramping up volume with employee, revenue, and output.
• Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S):
  Guide and support the plant EH&S program in improvements, investigations, and corrective actions to meet and exceed federal laws, state regulations, and corporate standards.
• Quality Assurance:
  Drive the plant's quality system, implementing procedures and controls to improve overall customer satisfaction, DPPM, first-pass yield, and warranty results.
• Operational Excellence:
  Partner with the Operational Excellence team to ensure the effective development and delivery of programs to teach the workforce lean manufacturing concepts such as A3 thinking, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, and 5S.
• Customer Satisfaction:
  Be proactive and responsive to all facets of customer satisfaction, including on-time delivery, schedule changes, and special instructions.
• Facility & Maintenance:
  Guide and support plant maintenance, process improvements, facility enhancements, and capital expenditures.
• Financial Management:
  Direct the submittal of the plant’s Annual Operating Plan and the business’s financial forecasts. Lead plant resources in project budgets, while meeting material and labor productivity targets.
• Employee Engagement:
  Maintain a positive rapport with all levels of the organization to foster and promote an inclusive work environment, high morale, and strong employee engagement.
• Talent Development:
  Lead and support the development of plant employees and succession planning activities.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Technical capacity with attention to detail
• Team builder/leadership attributes
• Excell…