• Overall responsibility to ensure product launch objectives, project capital needs and customer requirements are met on time and adhered to strict safety protocols; Responsible for the plant’s performance in manufacturing, customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, quality and delivery of product and maintaining quality and environmental certifications.
• Passionate about coaching and training plant personnel. Effective at setting, evaluating and inspiring individual and team goals that develop people to promote a positive “get-it-done” culture.
• Strategic thinker and situational leader, responsible for planning, directing, and managing the entire operation while ensuring the development and implementation of efficient, customer-facing operational processes that meet both current and future business needs.
• Organize and manage the plant Operation/Production teams in order to meet designated targets and objectives, while using them effectively and efficiently. Set clear expectations, design practical processes and procedures that ensure accountability and KPI’s.
• Create and implement initiatives that drive optimization and improvements in the performance of the overall operations input, throughputs and outputs, focused production planning, scheduling, and execution.
• Work with managers within the plant to collect and analyze data to find ways to improve overall manufacturing capacity, teaching managers to schedule, plan, organize, direct, and run optimum day-to-day operations that meet or exceed internal expectations.
• Work with department managers to implement and maintain preventative maintenance programs and incorporate production floor organization and plant cleanliness among all plant personnel.
• Extensive knowledge of business and management principles (budgeting, production planning, material flow, inventory management, resource allocation and human resource planning).
• Increase production, asset capacity and flexibility, while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards.
• Implement cost-effective systems of control over capital, operating expenditures, manpower, wages, and salaries.
• Establish and implement short and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures for the entire operations/production teams. Monitoring overall plant performance for production and quality standards.
• Provide direction, development, and leadership for all operational departments; ensure team members’ roles and responsibilities are clear and understood.
• Champion plant safety policies and procedures and bring enhanced communication leadership to the Safety and Quality Managers to work more effectively with one another. Effectively communicate the company Health, Safety and Environmental Policy and Procedures and manage /Executive Safety Committees.
• Assist in the analysis and interpretation of ERP system information.
• Encourage open communication at all levels within the organization as well as the customer base.

Leadership and Management:

• Energize and engage employees through their managers by ensuring they understand and can execute operational fulfillment goals. Must be able to communicate job expectations internally; plan, monitor, appraise, and review job contributions; enforcing policies and procedures. Drive for stability in labor, profitability and product to increase earnings.
• Celebrate with the plant personnel to build trust and improve communication, show recognition to affirm and demonstrate support from management.
• Set monitor, and follow-up on operational and/or performance goals for each department which are aggressive, achievable, and tied to long-term goals ensuring progress is being made.
• Track and measure productivity by analyzing performance data, financial data, and activity reports; follow-up on operational/production performance goals/KPIs for each department.
• Ensure all department managers are fully informed, maintaining an operational atmosphere of accountability
• Conduct standard meetings with department managers to ensure that priorities are clear, and coordination is good.
• Solve any inter departmental issues that arise before any problems hamper the daily operations. Facilitate conflict resolution to ensure objective fulfillment and timely   resolution to site specific problems and opportunities.
• Ensure the operations team has the necessary resources to effectively meet short and long-term goals.
• Establish and adjust organizational structure so that it supports the business’s objectives.