Plant Manager

3 weeks ago


Northwood, United States Adient Full time

Summary:

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The Plant Manager leads and directs all activities at Adient's JIT automotive seating plant in Northwood, OH to ensure world class manufacturing and a continuous improvement culture is established in the plant. The Plant Manager leads and manages the plant continuous improvement operations around safety, quality, efficiency, and/or financials.

Specific Duties:

  • Establishes goals, objectives and guidelines covering all phases of plant operations and staff activities to maintain a safe, efficient, functional, operational and profitable plant.

  • Drives performance to achieve financial and operational targets.

  • Communicates across the organization to ensure attainment to targets and successful launches.

  • Engages the hourly workforce through high performance teams (HPT) and continuous improvement actions to ensure all employees are involved in the business.

  • Directs, guides and motivates immediate subordinates in attainment of projected goals and objectives to increase operational efficiency.

  • Ensures compliance with all corporate communications, adheres to and promotes HSE & E policies and procedures.

  • Communicates with customers and suppliers to identify/resolve concerns on an as needed basis.

  • Positive Employee and Labor Relations

  • Ensure that material released from this facility has achieved the highest quality standard possible.

  • Plans and forecasts plant requirements with respect to equipment, manpower, materials and facilities to establish budgets for labor and materials.

  • Maintains contact with civic and business leaders in the community relations and to improve the Plant's local image by participation in organizations with company interests.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in industrial management, engineering, or business administration.

  • 8 to 10 years of experience in manufacturing to include at least 5 years in a leadership role

  • Solid leadership skills

  • Strong written, verbal, and communication skills.

  • Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external customers.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Certification in Lean

PRIMARY LOCATION

Northwood Facility

COMPANY INFORMATION: Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. With approximately 75,000 employees in 33 countries, Adient operates 208 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing - and into more than 20 million vehicles every year. We are a global leader in automotive seating because of our people - a team of adventurous thinkers and passionate high performers who make it all possible. We pride ourselves on being at the vanguard of new industry trends and technologies. When you join Adient, you'll play an important role in helping us improve the experience of a world in motion. At Adient, we care about your character just as much as your qualifications. Because for us, it's more than the job. It's about committing to your responsibilities. Creating a global community and empowering your teammates. That's why we work hard to ensure our employees - no matter their race, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, caste, disability, union membership, ethnicity, religious beliefs or the stage of their careers - can see the difference their work makes for our customers and their consumers around the globe.

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