The plant manager position directs and manages all plant operations with overall responsibilities for production, maintenance, quality and other production-related activities.
Job Title Plant Manager
Reports to Board of Directors
Status Permanent
Job Location Factory (O’Meara Industrial Estate)
Summary/Objective
The plant manager position directs and manages all plant operations with overall responsibilities for production, maintenance, quality and other production-related activities.
Qualifications and Experience
- Graduated from Engineering Department (Especially Mechanical Engineering
- Minimum 5 years’ experience as a Production or Plant Manager in Automotive industry or manufacturing plant.
- Good knowledge of lean manufacturing principles, tools and systems.
- Experienced in production process management, organization and planning.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Duties and Responsibilities
Key Competencies
- Leadership
- Communication Proficiency
- Decision Making
- Problem Solving/Analysis
- Financial Management
- Business Acumen
Required Behavioural Competencies
- Adaptability – open to and actively solicit new ideas and opinions.
- Assertiveness – readily offer opinions and take action even when their position may be unpopular.
- Business Thinking – sees the organization as a series of integrated and interlocking business processes. Understands general business concepts. Understands the financial framework of the organization. Establishes and monitors appropriate financial measures, using data to make informed business decisions.
- Communication – demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional work groups including suppliers, customers and associates, both verbally and in writing. Excellent listening skills.
- Coaching & Counseling – effectively instructs associates at all performance levels and enjoys helping team members grow, sharing authority and providing resources and support that empower. Offers clear, direct, and timely feedback.
- Conflict Management – support and manage differences of opinion. Use consensus and collaboration to debate and resolve issues.
- Diplomacy – skilled at handling situations without arousing hostility. Forge coalitions.
- Energy – have the stamina and endurance to maintain a fast pace and continue to produce.
- Influence & Positive Impact – skilled at persuading, motivating, and energizing others at all levels. Passionate, personable, self-confident, and likeable. Able to flex style and direct, collaborate, or empower as the situation requires. Ability to establish a personal power base built on mutual trust, fairness, and honesty. Establish and maintain productive relationships and networks, utilizing them to facilitate business transactions.
- Initiative – proactive and takes action without being prompted.
- Learning agility – continuously seeks new knowledge, creates and fosters a culture of interest, curiosity and learning. Flexible to change, and learns from failure. Seeks to improve processes and products.
- Organization & Planning – manage time wisely and effectively prioritize multiple competing tasks.
- Potential - capable of assuming more responsible roles within the organization.
- Presentation Skills – written and verbal.
- Problem Solving & Decision Making – identifies and solves problems, develops innovative solutions, acts decisively, and shows good judgment.
- Results Orientation – maintains appropriate focus on short- and long-term goals. Motivated by achievement, and persists until goals are reached, conveying a sense of urgency.
- Self-Discernment – knows personal strengths and limitations and works toward improving weaknesses.
- Team Player – respond to requests from other parts of the organization, and support larger legitimate organizational agendas.
- Visioning and Strategic Thinking – imaginative, entrepreneurial and thoughtful, creating a vision of a preferred future and communicating it clearly and enthusiastically in such a way that others are attracted to it. Knows and understands the factors influencing strategy, and acts with the future in mind.
Supervisory Responsibily
This position manages all employees of the department and is responsible for the performance management and hiring of the employees within that department.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The noise level in the work environment can be loud.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.