Plant Manager
Sun Chemical
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Franklin • Ohio • United States
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About the role
- Leads a safety-focused organization that prioritizes safety and housekeeping techniques and programs.
- Leads the site safety OSHA program in partnership with the site EHS Coordinator and plant leadership team.
- Leads and motivates the workforce in a positive manner including effectively handling employee relations issues including, but not limited to, training, counseling, discipline and conflict resolution.
- Embraces and promotes a continuous improvement mindset focused on identifying and removing bottlenecks in process and policy.
- Champions organization / human resource initiatives (performance management, succession planning, training & development planning) which impacts team and individual performance.
- Owns and leads the planning, organizing and controlling of the technical functions, ensuring products made are within specifications/control limits as agreed to between technical, sales and the customer, and delivered on-time in full.
- Ensures customers receive necessary and responsive product technical support as deemed suitable and necessary to maintain and grow the business.
- Investigates customer complaints from a production, technical or administrative viewpoint to determine cause, implement solutions, and monitor results.
- Reviews miscellaneous daily reports indicating the status of production, technical and administrative issues and recommends or advises actions and monitors results.
- Maintains a continuing ISO program and certification.
- Develops effective metrics and performance standards to improve efficiency, remove bottlenecks, improve batch cycle times, reduce defect rates and costs, as well as maximizing quality and customer satisfaction.
- Consistently administers corporate, regional, unit and local policies and procedures in accordance with their terms.
- Maintains good communication and working relationship within site departments, branch network and externally to sales and other corporate, regional or unit.
Requirements
- BS Degree in Chemical Engineering, Operations Management, Business Administration or related
- 7-10 years’ experience in supervision, employee relations, management and operations in a manufacturing environment
- Must be metric-driven and have experience with establishing and maintaining performance-based metrics to achieve objectives.
- Financial/P&L analysis and bottom-line orientation
- Understanding of an automated production environment
- Experience with leading and sustaining successful projects using lean manufacturing concepts.
- Experience driving continuous improvement projects with measurable, achieved results.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience driving effective rewards and recognition culture.
- Conflict resolution, coaching, and team development experience.
Benefits
- merit increases
- paid holidays
- Paid Time Off
- medical
- dental
- vision
- short and long term disability benefits
- 401(k)+match
- life insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
BS Degree in Chemical EngineeringBS Degree in Operations ManagementBS Degree in Business AdministrationISO program and certificationFinancial analysisP&L analysisLean manufacturingPerformance-based metricsContinuous improvementAutomated production
Soft Skills
Employee relationsConflict resolutionCoachingTeam developmentCommunicationMotivationTraining and developmentPerformance managementSuccession planningProblem-solving