Plant Manager

Your Job

Smiths Interconnect, a Molex company, is seeking a Plant Manager responsible for planning, directing, and overseeing all manufacturing activities at the Salisbury, Maryland facility.

This role ensures product quality standards are met, manufacturing schedules are achieved, and continuous process improvements and cost objectives are realized.

Our Team

Will drive optimal employee performance and foster a high-performing culture, with the ultimate goal of creating and sustaining a world-class operations environment.

What You Will Do

• Lead and drive a Safety and Quality culture enabling the site to be fully compliant to all required Safety & Quality accreditation standards customer requirements

• Develop and implement organizational structure to meet site operations objectives.

• Drive Safety, Cost, Quality, Service & Delivery performance

• Deliver site targets relating to HSE & S / Business continuity

• Support site Quality improvements and audits enabling the Quality objectives for the site to be met.

• Control and deliver performance across all site processes that lead to positive indicators reflected on the Global Operations scorecards.

• Coordinate the establishment of site objectives, track and publish results.

• Complete performance trackers & site scorecards

• Lead site employee engagement in line with our Smiths Values

• Develop the site team through individual development plans / coaching sessions to meet expectations

• Manage the site budgets and costs demonstrating control to drive favorable site financial results

• Drive improved productivity with targeted cost improvement initiatives that deliver year over year cost reductions and supports future growth.

• Lead capital investments for the site actively focused on building in process capability of our manufacturing processes.

• Drive asset utilization programmes focusing on shift patterns, staff deployment and work center utilization.

• Manage inventory plans and improve inventory turns (Quarterly) while maintaining material continuity of supply to enable customer requirements to be met

• Deliver VAVE programmes that provide a year over year reduction in site costs

• Manage site processes to minimize overdue customer orders (internal & external) and provide on time delivery to our customers

• Drive a continuous improvement culture - promoting a 'standardized visual factory' to act as our customer showroom.

Implement improvements that reduce our total supply lead times to our customers.

• Organize and lead regular site management leadership team meetings and team briefs

• Communicate and disseminate all Smiths Group and Smiths Interconnect organizational announcements, policy changes, etc.

• Champion & implement Smiths Interconnect 'best practices' into assigned facility

• Keep offsite management informed of the performance of local groups, the site, site emergencies and any other site-based activity that m...