Plant Operations Manager

2 days ago


South Bend, Indiana, United States H.B. Fuller Full time
Job Summary

H.B. Fuller is seeking a highly skilled Plant Manager to lead our South Bend, IN operations. As a key member of our North America Operations Director team, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining a clean, safe, and highly productive plant environment. Your expertise in operations management and ability to drive continuous improvement will be essential in achieving our goals and objectives.

Key Responsibilities
  • Enforce safe manufacturing practices and ensure compliance with all-applicable safety and environmental rules, regulations, and procedures.
  • Set and maintain standards for on-time delivery of quality products that meet customer needs.
  • Control costs through close management of the operational and capital budgets and by identifying, prioritizing, and pursuing continuous improvement projects.
  • Determine facility headcount required and manage planning and approvals, guide management team in recruiting, hiring, development, and termination activities to meet business needs.
  • Manage the managers in the plant, groom, and mentor potential successors for plant and operations leadership roles across the network.
  • Maintain performance excellence by holding the team accountable for both rewarding results and managing employees who do not meet performance expectations.
  • Ensure timely and data-driven corrective action with problem products, marshaling the facility and business unit technical resources.
  • Provide innovative solutions to customer issues by leading collaborative efforts to address all issues.
  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with commercial, marketing, operations, supply chain, HR, Finance, and R&D partners.
  • Facilitate collaborative teamwork within the facility and with external partners.
  • Manage stakeholder expectations.
  • Prioritize work to effectively focus on critical items and deliver quality results by deadline.
  • Support new product introduction/scale-up and raw material acquisitions via change management processes.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field.
  • 10+ years of progressive operations management experience with a proven track record of success.
  • Prior experience demonstrating success in leading facility improvements across multiple disciplines.
  • Effectively engage employees at all levels in a positive manner that fosters team building and community and help identify succession plans for high-potential employees.
  • Effective, strong communications and analytical skills.
  • Experience maintaining a safety culture and developing programs related to EHS.
  • Prior experience with ISO, Standard Work, and Zero-Defect methodologies.
Preferred Requirements
  • MBA.
  • Process Safety Management experience.
  • Experience leading in a union environment.
  • Expertise in SAP or similar ERP database management systems.
  • Process control experience.
  • Quality control experience.
  • Some knowledge of the chemistry involved in the manufacturing of the products at the specific site.
  • Six Sigma certification, Green or Black Belt, experience in design for Six Sigma DFSS.
  • Exposure to applications using continuous improvement techniques; TQM, Problem Solving DMAIC, Fault Tree Analysis, FMEA's, Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Value Stream mapping, and etc.
  • Adhesives experience.
  • Demonstrates Business Acumen and Business Agility.

This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship. Applicants must have U.S. work authorization that does not now or in the future require H.B. Fuller sponsorship of a work visa to work for H.B. Fuller.


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