Mohawk Industries

Assistant Plant Manager

Mohawk Industries

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Torrington • Connecticut • United States

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About the role

  • Collaborate with the Plant Manager to oversee operations across manufacturing, engineering, materials, planning, and quality departments.
  • Drive plant performance to meet divisional goals, ensuring optimal skills mix and production processes that exceed customer expectations.
  • Supervise departmental leaders to ensure production volume, cost efficiency, quality standards, and delivery timelines are met.
  • Maximize productivity and efficiency of supervisors and production teams through strategic leadership and resource planning.
  • Optimize use of equipment, facilities, and materials by developing and implementing effective operational plans.
  • Manage the Materials function, ensuring timely availability of resources aligned with customer needs, inventory goals, and profitability.
  • Support logistics operations including freight, warehousing, inventory control, and work order management across all production areas.
  • Establish and maintain shift standards and schedules to support consistent production output.
  • Lead projects within budget and timeline constraints, overseeing design, development, implementation, and testing phases.
  • Stay current on industry trends and technologies, identifying opportunities to enhance production processes and reduce costs.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience
  • 6-8 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • 1-3 years of management experience
Benefits
  • Occasional exposure to hazardous conditions caused by noise, moving mechanical parts, airborne particles, and other conditions associated with a high-traffic production floor.
  • Must be able to walk long distances and stand for long periods of time.
  • Bending, crouching, and stooping may be required.
  • Must be able to work in non-climate-controlled facilities.
  • The work environment may be a noisy, high traffic manufacturing production floor.
  • May be required to work a flexible schedule to include evening and night shifts, weekends, and holidays.
  • The ability to wear personal protective gear correctly most of the day.
  • The ability to lift 50 pounds regularly.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
operations managementproduction processesresource planninginventory controllogistics operationsproject managementcost efficiencyquality standardsmanufacturing engineeringmaterials management
Soft skills
strategic leadershipcollaborationsupervisioncommunicationproblem-solvingteam managementtime managementdecision makingadaptabilityorganizational skills