Plant Manager

TVS Supply Chain Solutions Manufacturing North America Inc

The Plant Manager will manage, coordinate, and lead the business activities of all departments within the production facility. The Plant Manager leads employees at our Augusta facility and ensures operational performance across assigned shifts.

This role involves direct responsibility for shift performance in areas such as Safety, People Management, Manpower, Quality, and Customer Satisfaction, and will supervise associates across three shifts. This role will directly supervise 1st shift and manage a 2nd Shift Department Manager and team. This role reports to the Director of Operations.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Enforce department-level tracking, reporting, and control of the DART rate (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred rate) for each department.
• Support and conduct safety investigations and meetings as necessary.
• Ensure Department Managers comply with and enforce all standard safety practices.
• Ensure Department Managers maintain an organized and clean work environment in compliance with 6S workplace organizational standards.
• Inspect and monitor that key department objectives are properly reported via the Shop Floor Management (SFM) process.
• Oversee and direct communication with the customer to address customer complaints and concerns; resolve problems and elevate issues as required.
• Interact with customers daily.
• Address and control the cost of poor quality attributed to the shift. Key indexes include scrap, downtime, detention, and premium freight.
• Finalize daily plans and workloads with Department Managers to ensure daily goals and objectives are achieved.
• Maintain, complete, and submit accurate timekeeping records for all employees within the designated span of control.
• Ensure department managers consistently enforce company policies for the managed workforce.
• Monitor, measure, and report the performance of employees within the designated span of control.
• Create and administer performance reviews in accordance with company practice.
• Partner with Quality, Materials, and Operations to analyze root cause and drive improvement.
• Execute coaching and feedback to maximize employee performance.
• Establish and maintain positive employee relations and employee involvement.
• Participate in all TVS SCS quality and excellence initiatives.

• Exceptional Leadership and development skills
• Conflict resolution
• Engagement skills driving employee interactions
• Ability to motivate and lead large teams of people toward a standard set of objectives.
• Written communication proficiency:
  Ability to create data-driven reports
• Oral communication proficiency:
  Large and small group communication/documentation
• High level of initiative / High level of judgement
• Independent decision-making skills working with ambiguous data
• Results driven
• Organized / Ability to multitask
• Flexibility / Adapt to continuous change
• Ability to capture and report data / Recognizing trends
• Adaptive problem solving driven by a data-based approach
• Ability to monitor and manage individual and group expenses
• Comprehension of linked supply chain process and decision impacts to upstream and downstream processes/customers.

While performing this job, the employee must regularly communicate verbally and listen regularly. They will often need to stand, walk, and use their hands for tasks, which may include gripping, handling, or feeling objects, as well as reaching with their hands and arms. Occasionally, the associate may need to lift items weighing up to 51 pounds, while any weight greater than 51 pounds will require assistance.

Specific vision abilities required by this job may include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

This job is performed in a complex manufacturing environment with multiple workstations, heavy machinery and frequent forklift traffic. The facility is subject to seasonal temperature changes. Employees must wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE),…