Plant Manager - Springfield, United States - Mackinnon & Partners

Description

RESPONSIBILITIES

• A Plant-General Manager oversees a company's processes to ensure they stay within the budget and enhance efficiency.
• Responsible for consistently finding ways to improve an organization's production processes and structures.
• The Plant-General Manager will consistently review employees and their equipment items to determine where to make enhancements.
• Work closely with team members to build strategies to maximize their performance.
• Collaborate with other departments and team members to set goals for the production team.
• In charge of scheduling routine maintenance to keep the equipment running effectively and maintaining quality standards.
• Motivating, supporting and providing guidance to production staff
• Evaluating machine resources to ensure continued production and minimal downtime
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, proven track record for excellent project management
• Technical Capacity and the ability to provide technical guidance.
• Business Acumen.
• Conducts regular communication meetings to review performance, production, project status and initiatives.
• Provides a safe and clean working environment and health and safety requirements.
• Oversee the preventative maintenance in Production and Tooling.
• Ensure continuation of quality accreditations to support the Aerospace business.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Manage and develop existing relations directly with our OEM licensors, for instance GE, Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, etc.
• Oversee daily plant operations and personnel activity
• Account management - customer visits, relationship building
• Trained to have a technical understanding of a program, its customers' work scopes and what is needed to provide solutions.
• Expertise on Tooling Design and the function of the product.
• Provide strong practices to help continuous growth and improvement at an OEM level.
• Technical support to Production – help in industrialization of a certain program with experience and knowledge gain through OEM training and exposure.
• Technical support to Quality for OEM specialized tooling and procedures.
• Technical support to Sales – such as training support for WW teams.
• Design/Engineering: review engineering blueprints for new projects, recommend and implement design changes and manufacturing improvements.

EDUCATION AND EXPERINCE

• Bachelor of Engineering: Mechanical preferred, Industrial, Materials or related field.
• Mechanical Engineer / Aerospace specialty / Sales and Marketing experience
• 3+ years project engineering management experience within an industrial environment.
• Ability to communicate clearly internally and externally
• Experience executing cost control Projects in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Strong engineering skills.
• Demonstrable teamwork and maturity with a strong work ethic.
• Experience with ERP systems, preferably Sage