Plant Manager - Ash Flat, Arkansas
If you are a Plant Manager professional looking for an opportunity to grow your career, this role offers the chance to lead a multi-shift manufacturing facility of approximately 150 employees within our Client's global manufacturing organization. You will set the strategic and operational direction of the plant, ensuring safe, efficient, and high-quality operations while delivering on customer commitments and business goals.
In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:
- Provide overall leadership of all plant operations, including production, manufacturing engineering, maintenance, quality, supply chain, and logistics, ensuring the facility consistently meets production targets, on-time delivery commitments, and P&L objectives.
- Monitor, analyze, and optimize operational performance through the effective use of KPIs and metrics, identifying opportunities for improvement and driving accountability across the organization.
- Lead and champion Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, reduce waste, and improve overall plant performance.
- Promote a strong culture of safety, quality, and compliance by reducing risk, meeting regulatory requirements, and driving effective root cause analysis and corrective actions.
- Manage plant financial performance by overseeing budgets, improving cost efficiency, and translating operational results into clear business actions.
- Build, develop, and engage a high-performing leadership team by partnering with Human Resources on workforce planning, talent development, succession planning, and positive employee relations.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with supply chain, engineering, procurement, and commercial teams to align priorities, balance capacity, and execute manufacturing plans that support growth and customer commitments.
For This Role, You Will Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Demonstrated experience in a manufacturing environment commensurate with the level and scope of this position.
- Strong leadership, team-building, problem-solving, and conflict-management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels of the organization.
- Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Solid financial acumen, including budgeting, cost control, and operational performance management.
- Experience with ERP/MRP systems and production planning tools.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present operational results and business recommendations to senior leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change and drive operational improvements in a dynamic manufacturing environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA preferred.
- Proven success leading plant operations with accountability for safety, quality, delivery, and financial performance.
- Seven (7) or more years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience.
- Experience leading multi-shift manufacturing operations.
- Demonstrated success developing leaders and building high-performing teams.
- Exposure to Lean Manufacturing, Operational Excellence, Six Sigma, or similar continuous improvement programs.