Plant Manager

Position Summary

Position Summary and Responsibilities

Lead a high-performing manufacturing plant using the Parker Lean and Win Strategy to deliver world-class safety, quality, delivery, and cost results. You'll own site performance end-to-end-developing people, improving processes, and driving profitable growth through operational excellence and disciplined strategy deployment.

• Own and improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost metrics across the plant.
• Set clear targets, drive accountability, and ensure daily management routines are effective.
• Ensure a strong compliance culture across EHS, quality systems, and operational standards.

• Translate strategic priorities into execution via strategy deployment.
• Build a sustainable continuous improvement culture using Parker Lean tools and behaviors.
• Drive measurable improvement through kaizen events, value stream optimization, and waste elimination.

• Coach and develop leaders across operations, engineering, supply chain, quality, and maintenance.
• Strengthen leadership standard work, talent development, and succession planning.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and problem-solving at every level.

• Improve throughput, productivity, and OEE through standardized work and process capability.
• Strengthen materials planning, inventory turns, and overall supply chain performance.
• Lead capacity planning and support new product introductions (NPI) and industrialization.

• Own the plant budget, cost structure, and performance to plan.
• Deliver annual productivity targets and margin improvement initiatives.
• Ensure smart capital planning aligned to strategic growth and reliability needs.

• Improved performance in SQDC.
• Sustained Parker Lean maturity (daily management, leader standard work, problem solving).
• Strong employee engagement, reduced turnover, and visible leadership development.
• Clear strategy deployment with consistent execution and verified results.

• You’ll be the driving force behind a plant's performance and culture-directly impacting customers, employees, and profitability.
• You’ll lead with proven frameworks (Parker Lean + Win Strategy) to accelerate results in a structured, scalable way.
• You’ll shape the future: modernization, growth, and continuous improvement with visible enterprise impact.

Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business discipline

A minimum of 5 years' experience in a manufacturing environment of which three years was in a team leadership role

Automation and robotics experience preferred.

LEAN manufacturing training or experience

Experience using ERP

Commercial knowledge

Outstanding communication skills

Outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills

Ability to build and lead a team through change

Strong analytical, problem solving, and project management skills

Strong organizational skills

Ability to work without direct supervision

Plant Manager is expected to be onsite 5 days a week.

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we've enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose - Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow - comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

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