Plant Manager-Assembly Technologies

Plant Manager – Assembly Technologies (Onsite) – Highland Heights, OH

Come make the world and accelerate your success. It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better for Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top‑notch team of more than 50,000 diverse and high‑performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

STANLEY® Engineered Fastening is the global leader in precision fastening and assembly solutions, with a history spanning nearly 100 years. Our portfolio features industry‑leading brands such as Avdel®, Integra™, Nelson®, Optima®, POP®, and Tucker®. We empower engineers in Automotive, Aerospace, and Industrial sectors with innovative products that ensure efficiency, reliability, and quality in manufacturing processes. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of innovation and creativity.

Our skilled team develops, manufactures, and distributes cutting‑edge fastening and joining solutions to meet modern engineering and manufacturing challenges.

• Assume overall leadership of Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Inventory and People (SQCDIP) for products and processes.
• Directly interact with all support functions including Commercial, Advanced Manufacturing, Quality, EHS, Security, HR, Finance, Engineering, and Supply chain to ensure increasing levels of customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction while improving the efficiency of labor, materials, and machines.
• Support new product development plans by collaborating with the relevant product managers to improve product profiles, cost, standards, profits, and availability.
• Lead and manage policy deployment in the areas of Lean Manufacturing techniques, quality, cost reduction, complete and on‑time delivery, safety, customer satisfaction, employee relations, digital factory, and plant performance measures.
• Provide plant and team leadership through visioning, goals, expectations, performance management, coaching and communication, employee engagement, employee development, and employee relations.
• Provide leadership for root cause analysis and effective problem solving, yielding immediate and long‑term corrective actions and sustainable enhancements (Quality, Warranty, Continuous Improvement, Productivity, and overall operations).
• Ensure compliance with all federal and state regulations (e.g., OSHA), as well as all company policies and standards, including cost control, human resources, on‑time delivery, quality, safety, and waste reduction.
• Manage material requirements to increase inventory turns and reduce levels on hand. Lead the Purchasing & Materials Management team to drive OTIF, WCT‑DSI and overall corporate expectations.
• Support the development of an accurate annual budget, effectively manage the budget, and provide analysis for forecasting changes.
• Support the S&OP/IBP process through effectively monitoring demand forecast and comparing/converting it into supply forecast factoring in head/tail winds for labor, material, and machines.
• Effectively plan for, budget for, and manage operations headcount needs driving strong labor efficiencies.
• Identify, justify, communicate, and drive implementation of capital investments and improvement projects.
• Balance work cell loading across the plant and leverage strong material flow optimization opportunities.
• Continually benchmark and drive effective application of best practices and upskilling of our associates.
• Embrace the corporation’s values supporting DE&I and Sustainability.

• Minimum of ten (10) years of related progressive manufacturing operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in operations, engineering or related field/experience and an MBA is preferred.
• Site P&L responsibility experience and multi‑site leadership experience in a multi‑shift environment, managing multiple business functions.
• Certification in Lean or Six Sigma a plus.
• Knowledge of ISO 9001‑2015, AS9100, and IATF.
• The ideal candidate is an experienced…