Plant Manager

Location: Greater Birmingham, Alabama Area

This position will support the launch of a new manufacturing facility in the southwest Birmingham metropolitan area.

• Lead all plant operations to achieve objectives for safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
• Direct Just-in-Time (JIT) and Just-in-Sequence (JIS) operations to ensure accurate, uninterrupted delivery aligned with customer production schedules.
• Establish plant priorities, performance expectations, and accountability across all shifts and functional teams.
• Ensure effective staffing, labor utilization, material flow, equipment availability, and operational readiness to meet customer requirements.
• Monitor plant performance and drive corrective actions for production, sequencing, quality, delivery, labor, and cost concerns.
• Serve as the primary site leader for customer operational issues and escalations, leading containment, recovery, and corrective action activities as needed.
• Champion a strong safety and quality culture, ensuring compliance with company standards, regulatory requirements, standardized work, and customer-specific requirements.
• Manage plant financial and operational performance, including labor, overtime, productivity, scrap, premium freight, operating costs, budgets, and key performance indicators.
• Lead, develop, and hold accountable the plant leadership team while fostering employee engagement, communication, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Drive lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives to optimize sequencing accuracy, material flow, labor efficiency, quality, equipment reliability, and overall plant performance.