Description
The Plant Manager is responsible for the overall performance of the site. Their permanent objective is to achieve their budget commitment measured by gross and operating margin, and inventory level.\n\nKey responsibilities include:\n\n Ensuring the safety of employees\n Ensuring customer satisfaction through quality and delivery\n Managing variable margin: DLE and productivity / material consumption / reduction of rejects and reworks\n Managing fixed costs\n Managing inventories: appropriate information management and physical flows within the factory\n Defining the factory layout to enable optimized flows and efficient use of equipment: capacity, reliability, operating costs, control of CAPEX\n Driving continuous improvement and break plans through defined priorities and resources in line with the Factory Improvement Plan (PIP) and medium-term objectives using Lean Management tools and methodologies\n Contributing to commercial services for all negotiations with customers\n Creating the best conditions for production, securing launches, and ensuring the profitability and competitiveness of new programs by working with the program team from the acquisition of these programs\n Driving improvements in supplier performance and material consumption with the purchasing department\n Participating in the construction of the 'medium-term' vision of the factory\n Ensuring responsibilities and relationships with local authorities\n Securing internal control with the support of the financial controller and financial network\n Guaranteeing the recruitment, integration, training, involvement, and development of factory employees, particularly for managers and professionals\n Developing their team, particularly through the deployment and fixing of objectives, the implementation of development actions, to prepare succession plans\n Guaranteeing the evaluation process of their team members\n Managing social relations to ensure a good social climate\n Driving their process and contributing to its deployment and continuous improvement (ISO, ...)\n Ensuring the use of appropriate quality methods and standards (PMS, specific customer program management system, international regulations, ...)\n\nRequirements include:\n\n Knowledge of data analysis of industrial production activity\n Knowledge of managing actions to improve performance (quality, costs, and deadlines)\n Fluent English and possibly other foreign languages depending on the environment\n\nQualifications required:\n\n Initial degree or equivalent experience: BAC+5 or equivalent professional experience\n Significant experience in operations management or factory management at a senior level in the automotive industry (Tier 1)