The Plant Manager will lead the Operations team responsible for the manufacture, assembly, and on-time delivery of high quality heat exchangers, products and systems.

Responsibilities:

• Leadership and Management of the Operations team which includes manufacturing, manufacturing engineering and maintenance.
• Maximize efficiency through the design and implementation of improved manufacturing strategies and allocate assets and resources to meet quality, safety, cost, delivery, and volume and productivity goals.
• Utilize problem solving methodology to understand root cause and drive improvements.
• Support lean initiatives and develop lean culture throughout the organization.
• Benchmark and establish performance metrics, collect and report results.
• Manage the budget and personnel expenses and deliver on commitments by controlling cost, capital, inventory and assets.
• Assure compliance with all federal, state, local and corporate policies, laws, and regulations.

Skills/Abilities:

• Record of successful goal setting, achievement, and employee management.
• Experienced strategic planner with qualitative and quantifiable results.
• Demonstrated success working in and providing strategic direction in a rapidly growing organization.
• Ability to build infrastructure, policies, programs which support business goals.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) and the ability to motivate and lead a diverse work force to achieve desired results.
• Committed to the values of ATS.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in operations, engineering or related technical field required, with advanced technical or business administration degree preferred.
• Knowledge of, and experience in, lean manufacturing or Toyota Production System (TPS) including deployment preferred.
• Five plus years experience in manufacturing management required.
• Ten or more years in an automotive or Tier 1 Supplier manufacturing environment preferred.
• ncial Management, Process Management, and Project Management skills and abilities with demonstrated success.