Plant Manager
- Winnipeg, MB
- Permanent
- Full-time
- This is on site role based in Winnipeg, MB
- Responsible for ensuring excellence through the 5 plant fundamentals of safety, housekeeping, preventive maintenance, productivity, and quality as outlined below
- Has a continuous improvement mentality to drive a site culture focused on excellence across all functions and personnel roles
- Leverages best practices across sites, including sharing new best practices and learning from other sites
- Responsible for ensuring BOMs are correct, and product is manufactured within BOM cost and quality commitments
- Spends at least 80% of time on floor, interacting with plant teams and leadership
- Assists with preparation of annual production budget and capital project requests
- Uses key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure progress, including P&L’s, Daily Production Reports, BI dashboards, Vorne XL boards, and other OPS reports and tools
- Holds self and employees accountable for creating and implementing best practices and doing what is right for the business
- Appraises employee performance and recommends appropriate actions to leadership
- Directs development of training programs to promote employee engagement
- Leverages standardized skills matrices and customized job interviews by role to ensure consistency in hiring talent that aligns with the required skillset for each role on the site
- Set expectations with employees on good, consistent customer service & responsiveness
- Ensures top quality products that meet on time delivery expectations
- Ensures production plans and schedules are in place and team is executing to them
- Drives labor best practices, managing on-time starts and employee overtime through OPS tools and BI dashboards
- Conducts daily shift huddles are being conducted and utilizing huddle boards
- Ensures site leaders are leveraging shift huddle data to manage downtime and working with maintenance lead to manage PM schedules
- Leads weekly site performance reviews with both production and maintenance leads
- Leads monthly downtime workshops, utilizing OPS dashboards and tools and includes both production and maintenance leads
- Reports site performance using KPIs and OPS dashboards in a monthly performance review with business leaders
- Ensures any reported hazards are immediately mitigated and resolved in a timely manner
- Attend and support monthly safety training
- Directs implementation of a best-in-class quality program to ensure consistent, top-quality products with minimal junk
- Ensures products meet and exceed customer expectations
- Ensures products meet and exceed company set specifications and that product remains within BOM cost commitments
- Experience navigating collective agreements within a unionized setting
- Previous knowledge of production equipment is a desirable asset
- Good Mechanical and Electrical skills
- Excellent leadership and team building skills
- Proficient use of computer software such as Microsoft Office Products, Internet, Email
- Highly competitive base pay
- Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
- Group retirement savings program
- Health and wellness programs
- An inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion