Plant Manager

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Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Plant Manager to join the Starline Team in Reading, UK. This position is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating production floor activities, ensuring that customer expectations, quality objectives, productivity, and cost savings goals are met while providing a safe work environment for employees. The position will provide direct leadership to department managers, supervisors, team leaders, and support production employees that consist of 120+ associates (employees and temporary workers) and annual revenue of over $100M. This role requires a seasoned leader who thrives in a high-growth, heavily matrixed environment, with a demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence, foster cross-functional collaboration, and lead expansion initiatives. The ideal candidate is results-oriented, agile, and capable of aligning plant performance with broader organizational goals.

What Will You Do?

• Oversees production management, including manufacturing operations, inventory, facilities, and planning. Actively engages with direct reports and other departments to understand issues, analyze information and drive solutions/improvements.
• Continually reviews manufacturing processes and makes appropriate recommendations for lowering costs and improving productivity, efficiency, labor utilization and/or quality.
• Assists with the annual strategic and business planning process providing key inputs from the production operations. Develop metrics and ensure proper reporting to track the performance of the manufacturing operation against budget, including revenue projections, backlog action plans, schedule attainment, throughput, labor utilization, efficiency, scrap, and cost containment initiatives.
• Partners with Global OPEX manager to support and lead OPEX and lean initiatives, which drive process improvement. Champions and offers support for all Safety, Quality and Lean activities, including adoption and implementation of Legrand Way.
• Participates with and provides direction as necessary to shop floor supervisors in resolving immediate quality, production, scheduling, technical or personnel issues.
• Coordinates plant activities through collaboration with staff to ensure customer expectations are met and align with manufacturing and budget objectives. Resolves production scheduling problems by quickly analyzing information and implementing short term and long term corrective actions. Proactively communicates information to peers and works on implementing solutions that satisfy all parties’ expectations. Keeps open dialog on improvement activities and key operational targets and objectives.
• Ensure personal and professional development of direct reports. Effectively manage, develop, and motivate direct and indirect reports. Provide effective, constructive, and appropriate feedback and leadership to direct reports to foster positive, team atmosphere while establishing responsibilities and accountabilities that are clear and measurable. Foster a culture of accountability.
• Actively oversees the inventory group, ensuring proper procedures are implemented to verify inventory accuracy.
• Timely communication of goal progress, roadblocks and solutions to Sr. Director of Global Operations.
• Lead efforts to scale operations efficiently to support business growth, including capacity expansion and workforce planning.
• Ensures compliance with all safety, environmental, company, local and federal regulations.
• Active floor presence is required as well as holding regular meetings with employees on all shifts to ensure good communication, teamwork, and cooperation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or related field or equivalent years of experience.
• MBA a plus.
• Minimum 7 years experience in manufacturing/production
• Minimum 3 years plant management experience in a production and/or manufacturing environment, including direct supervision of managing 75+ employees or more hourly and salaried employees
• LEAN (Value- Stream mapping) experience. Six Sigma a plus.
• SAP and/or ERP/MRP experience with the Production/Inventory/Quality modules
• Experience working within quality systems
• Demonstrated understanding and utilization of lean tools to help facilitate continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated capability of managing value streams.

Preferred Skills

• Detail-oriented and have excellent follow-through skills
• Proven ability to lead plant scale up and scale down efforts effectively. Ability to work with contract manufacturers and suppliers for business scale changes.
• Proven ability to present facts and recommendations effectively in oral and written form
• Proven ability to work independently and as a member of a team
• Proven ability to make sound decisions within established guidelines
• Must have the ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues, by using judgment that is consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulation or government law
• Ability to demonstrate flexible and efficient time management and to appropriately prioritize workload based upon organization or department needs.
• Ability to operate/work in a high growth & entrepreneurial environment
• Proven ability to manage people; train and motivate employees, as well as delegate effectively
• Must be able to function in a deadline driven environment
• Excellent project management, planning, and organizational skills with the ability to effectively manage several projects at one time while providing high attention to details and excellent follow-through skills
• Must possess high degree of professionalism and ability to handle confidential information

About Legrand

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Our comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and data center markets makes us a benchmark for customers worldwide. We harness technological and societal trends with lasting impacts on buildings with the purpose of improving life by transforming the spaces where people live, work, and meet with electrical and digital infrastructures and connected solutions that are simple, innovative, and sustainable. Legrand is a global, publicly traded company listed on the Euronext (Legrand SA EPA: LR). For more information, visit legrandgroup.com/en

About Legrand North and Central America

Legrand, North & Central America (LNCA) is a leader in the AV, Lighting & Controls, Electrical, and Data Center markets. LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit legrand.us

About Legrand’s Data Center Power and Control Division

The industry-leading brands of Approved Networks,Ortronics, Raritan, Server Technology, and Starline empower Legrand’s Data, Power & Control to produce innovative solutions for data centers, building networks, and facility infrastructures. Our division designs, manufactures, and markets world-class products for a more productive and sustainable future. The exceptional reliability of our technologies results from decades of proven performance and a dedication to research and development.

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