People are what make the difference at voestalpine. People who produce, process, and refine high-quality steel products in flexible, specialized companies around the world. People who make our customers' challenges their own, and people with a never-ending drive for the search of even better solutions. Its people like you who keep voestalpine one step ahead.
Summary/Objective
The Plant Manager position serves as a key leadership role in the implementation of customer and company driven initiatives for sustained organizational growth and effectiveness. The Plant Manager will plan, direct, and coordinate the operations of the company (JIT site) for continued and improved productivity, performance, efficiency, and profitability. This role will have oversight over the production, sales, and customer driven initiatives for the White, GA plant.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Assures specific quality guidelines are met and, if necessary, takes appropriate actions and measures to rectify quality issues.
2. Follows established safety rules and regulations.
3. Participates in developing and implementing a strategic plan that supports the organization’s vision and goals; translates the strategic plan to staff to ensure support; and modifies the plan in response to changing internal and external factors.
4. Builds and maintains a departmental structure, operating standards and practices that are responsive and adaptable to evolving business needs.
5. Develops and implements a talent plan to ensure the right people are in the right place at the right time to meet departmental goals.
- Balances quality, productivity, cost, safety and morale to achieve positive results in all areas. Works to continuously improve in all areas.
7. Manages employee performance by establishing clear goals and expectations, tracking progress against the goals, ensuring timely feedback, and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.
- Manages departmental performance measures, including visual controls and provides regular progress reports to executive team.
- Assures that all KPI’s are met throughout the organization (e.g. Cost of Quality, OEE, etc.)
10. Follows all guidelines set forth in our 5s training.
11. Other duties and responsibilities can be assigned based on company needs and skills level.
Competencies
1. Intrapreneurship
- Ability to build a culture of people who take disciplined action and are willing to go to extremely lengths to fulfill their responsibilities.
- Ability to see all of the forces, events, entities, and people that are affecting (or being affected by) the situation at hand, and establish a course of action.
- A penchant for being proactive and a “sensible risk taker” with an intelligent point of view.
- Ability to anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and taking appropriate action to be prepared for possible contingencies
Talent Advocate
a. Ability to attract, develop, and retain talented individuals; create a learning environment that ensures staff realize their highest potential — allowing the organization as a whole to meet future challenges.
b. Ability to hold staff rigorously accountable for achieving their objectives.
c. Ability to move people from compliance to commitment
2. Mobilizer
a. Ability to design and deliver an agile organizational structure that enables the movement of people and resources quickly to capture new market opportunities.
b. Ability to marshal the internal (perhaps external) resources and people necessary to make an opportunity a reality.
c. Ability to demonstrate a high level of integrity, strong interpersonal skills, the ability to build consensus, and put a strong emphasis on responsibility and accountability.
d. Ability to anticipate and plan for changes to current organizational policies, practices, systems, etc. needed to move in new strategic directions and to ensure long-term business viability.
Required Education and Experience
- Bachelors’ Degree with emphasis on Finance, Accounting or Business Management.
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience in managing functions in a medium or large size organization.
- Minimum of 5 year of experience managing high performing teams.
- Proficient with SAP.
Preferred Education and Experience
- Masters’ Degree from an accredited College or University.
- German language proficiency.
Other Qualifications:
1. Must have strong business knowledge and experience with the ability to provide reports and analysis of financial position and forecasts, develop and implement strategic plans within context of the larger picture.
2. Knowledge of principles and practices of modern management and administration; governmental policy, financial analysis; project management; and personnel management.
3. Must be able to develop business processes and management of projects.
4. Skill in planning, organizing, directing and coordinating a wide variety of activities; developing implementing and communicating policies and procedures for a large organization; implementing fiscal management policies; analyzing data, making sound recommendations and adopting effective causes of action; working persuasively and tactfully with supervisors and line staff; supervision of specialized professional staff; communicating effectively both in oral and written form.
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position, and hours of work and days are generally Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. In order to meet our customer’s demands this role may be required to perform work outside of business hours including weekends.
Travel
Travel is expected for this position. Travel can be national or international. Up to 20%.
Work Authorization/Security Clearance
This role is supported for work authorization.
AAP/EEO Statement
voestalpine Automotive Components Cartersville, LLC. provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
For further information about voestalpine Automotive Components Cartersville LLC. please visit: www.voestalpine.com/ac/cartersville
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $150,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Relocation assistance
- Vision insurance
Experience:
- Manufacturing: 5 years (Preferred)
- Management: 5 years (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
