- Senior
- Bureau à Juarez
NSI Industries is seeking a Plant Manager - Juarez, Mexico. The Plant Manager is responsible for managing various production teams and activities in the production and manufacturing floor; this may include, and it is not limited to production planning, directing and monitoring the production group to meet safety and quality standards, established specifications, schedules and volume/cost/loss targets. The Manager will be liaising with various support groups such as Engineering, Supply Chain Management (i.e., Planning), Procurement, among others; these joint efforts will be focused on developing production schedules, managing change and allocating labor/capital resources. This individual must be able to implement and drive Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) across the production operations and ensure all projects are delivered in a safe manner, at the highest quality standards, while maintaining budgetary guidelines and strict deadlines.
This is a full-time position. Extended hours, including evenings and weekends work, may be required as job duties demand. Required to be on call 24 hours per day, 7 days per week for any severe occurrence that would hamper the normal productive flow of the facility.
Responsibilities:
- Provide effective team leadership during periods of change and production ramp-up.
- Oversee production activities in a manufacturing environment, focusing on system-level and strategic solutions to:
- Optimize efficiency and resource utilization
- Increase safety levels
- Minimize costs
- Maintain high-quality standards
- Coordinate team activities to improve cost performance by:
- Optimizing operations
- Minimizing waste
- Driving a continuous-improvement culture using Lean Six Sigma, 5S, and Kaizen principles
- Build and develop a strong production management team with a balanced focus on strategic, tactical, and operational priorities through servant leadership.
- Provide a clear vision and inspire staff to achieve excellence.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external customers.
- Influence others to adopt best practices and approaches.
- Collaborate proactively with Production, Engineering, Maintenance, Facilities, EHS, and QA teams to incorporate best practices into manufacturing processes.
- Contribute to new business initiatives and projects, assessing and communicating their impact on manufacturing activities.
- Meet business objectives and production schedules while ensuring product standards exceed customer expectations.
- Lead manufacturing strategies and action plans to align facility operations with strategic initiatives.
- Take accountability for problem-solving and cost-reduction efforts.
- Communicate obstacles or issues promptly to senior management.
- Demonstrate success in transitioning manufacturing operations from startup to full production.
- Bring experience with diverse product offerings, including primary operations, secondary processes, assembly, and packaging.
- Assign work to the team to ensure timely completion of the production schedule.
- Develop the team to ensure adequately trained resources are available for current and future business needs.
- Ensure the production groups have the required tools, supplies, and training to perform their jobs.
- Provide continual feedback to employees on performance and communicating areas for improvement.
- Improve process flow and facility layout on the manufacturing floor.
- Improve safety for all employees.
- Assists in training all site leaders and staff.
- Handle disciplinary action in accordance with company policy for direct staff.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 10+ years operations experience in production and manufacturing.
- Prior experience as a Manufacturing/Plant Manager.
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system experience.
- Min. of 5 years of manufacturing leadership experience with a focus on molding, metal stamping, assembly, machining, injection molding, automatic and manual assembly.
- P&L responsibility.
- Bilingual Spanish / English with a working-level knowledge of the English language, including reading, writing, and speaking.
- Able to work independently with minimal direction.
- Lean Manufacturing and/or Lean Six Sigma implementation experience.
- Experience with MS project or Smart Sheet for effective project management.
- Knowledge of and ability to facilitate lean manufacturing processes activities on 5S, Standard Work Instructions, 5 Why’s, TPM, TFM, Project Management, Kanban, Poke Yoke.
- Proven experience in a large-scale, high speed/high volume manufacturing environment.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Results oriented with ability to plan and deliver project deadlines and goals.
- Resilient, self-motivated, and able to work well under pressure.
- Team oriented, able to work with peers effectively.
- Ability to coach and mentor employees on a one-on-one basis as well as a group.
- This requires minimal/mid travel needs which can be up to 30%
- Preferred experience in:
- Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement and six sigma knowledge.
- Managing in a union environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated expertise in servant leadership approach to managing teams.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Managed large teams of over 150+ employees.
- Must have an acute ability to think strategically, while providing guidance to teams operating at more tactical levels.