Plant Manager

PLANT MANAGER

Who We Are:
Lippert is a leading, global manufacturer and supplier of highly engineered products and customized solutions, dedicated to shaping, growing, and bettering the RV, marine, automotive, commercial vehicle, and building products industries. We combine our strategic manufacturing capabilities with the power of our winning team culture to deliver unrivaled customer service, award-winning innovation, and premium products to all of our customers.

Why We Are Different:
At Lippert, Everyone Matters. This is not just a tagline or empty promise; it is who we are. We have intentionally created a culture that values and celebrates our team members' unique and varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We strive to give our team members a deeper sense of purpose at work, and we continue to build a better work environment by aligning our cultural and business strategies with the needs of our team members.

What You Will Get:

1. A unique, inclusive, and supportive company culture.
2. Comprehensive benefit offerings including medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer match, vacation, and more!
3. Fair and competitive compensation.
4. Career development, mentoring, and opportunities to grow.
5. Holiday, personal, and vacation days.

Summary/Objective:
The Plant Manager (PM) is responsible for managing and leading manufacturing department group leaders, team leaders, and team members for assigned areas/shifts to ensure safety, quality, a positive work environment, customer requirements, and assembly manufacturing needs are met. Provide leadership and motivation to direct reports in a manufacturing system that emphasizes safety, quality, customer satisfaction, accuracy, productivity, cost reduction, housekeeping, efficiency, training, teamwork, and morale.

Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.

1. Ensure assembly manufacturing operations are running effectively in the areas of safety, quality, efficiency/productivity, cost, and team member morale.
2. Provide direction and motivation to group leaders focusing on safety, quality, efficiency, cost, and morale.
3. Conduct daily assembly manufacturing production area audits to ensure procedures for safety, quality, equipment, and training are being followed and all aspects of manufacturing are effective, including correcting sub-standards.
4. Lead development of Group Leaders.
5. Implement short- and long-term corrective actions for manufacturing problems.
6. Ensure all departmental procedures are compliant with quality and environmental management systems and programs.
7. Monitor daily build sheets and analyze efficiency rates and downtime to ensure customer requirements are being met.
8. Lead identification of manufacturing problems and eliminate waste.
9. Review and track Manufacturing Key Performance Indicators (KPI), including leading problem-solving for negative trends or goals not met.
10. Manage inventory, oversee the cycle-counting program, and ensure efficient shipping processes to meet operational and customer demands.

Working Conditions:

• Primarily working indoors, office environment.
• May work on the floor/outside, could be exposed to elements (heat, snow, etc.).
• May sit or stand for several hours at a time.
• Prolonged exposure to computer screens.
• Repetitive use of hands to operate computers, machines, printers, and copiers.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in engineering required.
2. Minimum of 3+ years of factory-related experience, with some experience as a Manufacturing Engineer and/or Quality Engineer preferred.
3. Computer proficiency in Microsoft Office and ERP systems, such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365).

Essential Functions:

1. Coordinate and maintain standardization of processes/methods.
2. Develop, lead, monitor, and participate in a manufacturing continuous improvement system.
3. Implement, monitor, and maintain a clean, organized department.
4. Assist Production Manager in developing, planning, and maintaining the budget, including making adjustments to achieve targets.
5. Participate in management discussions and planning sessions to help formulate cost reduction, product improvement, and problem-solving activities.
6. Develop and maintain positive team member relations centered on mutual trust, dignity, respect, fairness, consistency, two-way communication, teamwork, and harmony.
7. Provide direction and motivation to team members emphasizing quality, efficiency, productivity, cost reduction, safety and health, and morale.
8. Ensure further development of group leaders, team leaders, and team members through performance evaluation, development of training plans, feedback, coaching, corrective action, and cascade training. Update team member training matrix and schedule any needed training.

Competencies:

1. Communication Proficiency / Coaching
2. Organizational Skills
3. Staffing
4. Initiative
5. Thoroughness
6. Time Management
7. Management Proficiency
8. Financial Planning and Strategy
9. Process Improvement
10. Decision Making
11. Strategic Planning
12. Quality Management / Control

Supervisory Responsibility:
This position has the following positions reporting to it:

• Team Leaders
• Production Supervisor

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The Team Member may have to lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. This position requires Personal Protective Equipment. Protective Equipment supplied by the company includes Coating suit, Coating Boots, Spray Socks, Respirator, Work Gloves, Safety Glasses, and Ear Plugs. Employees may be required to provide additional Protective Equipment (Safety Shoes, etc.).

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time salary position, and hours of work and days are decided by production and the Director of Operations.

Travel:
Travel will be minimal and would be primarily local during the business day.

Preferred Education and Experience:

1. Bachelor's degree in engineering.
2. Assembly manufacturing/industry experience, with a minimum of 3+ years, including some experience as a Manufacturing Engineer and/or Quality Engineer.
3. Management/Leadership experience of at least 3+ years required.

Lippert provides equal employment opportunity to all team members and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, citizen status, protected veteran status, military service, marital status or any other legally protected category as established by federal, state, or local law. This policy governs all employment decisions, including recruitment, hiring, job assignment, compensation, training, promotion, discipline, transfer, leave-of-absence, access to benefits, layoff, recall, termination and other personnel matters. All employment and personnel-related decisions are based solely upon legitimate, job-related factors, such as skill, ability, past performance, and length of service with Lippert.

Lippert's strong commitment to equal employment opportunity requires a commitment by each individual team member. Compliance with the letter and spirit of this policy is required of all team members. Violations of this policy should be immediately reported to your leader or to any member of leadership. Team members who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment.

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