.**PLANT MANGER **(Aerospace Company)**Key Accountabilities**- Plans, organizes, and controls plant operations and lean principles to achieve divisional objectives for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Cash Flow.- Hire, Train, and Develop a high-performance team and implement the culture with a focus on our core values.- Develop and implement the long-term operations strategy to create sustainable SQDC improvements.- Design and implement necessary improvements to maintain a safe, clean, energy efficient and well-organized facility.- Through the annual Strategic Planning and Policy Deployment processes, define improvement priorities which have the greatest impact to customers, stakeholders and associates; deploy the strategy to your team and engage.- Represents operations in the Sales, Inventory, Operations, Planning (SIOP) process.- Leads the business including the Engineering, Operations, Quality, Human Resources, RBS, and Finance functions consistent with the annual operating plan.- Pro-actively analyzes operational metrics, making and driving process improvements within manufacturing, supply chain, and sourcing- Supports divisional growth strategy through improved manufacturing cost, capacity, and process flexibility.- Fosters a culture of Total Associate Engagement.- Manages and improves salaried and hourly performance through exceptional utilization of the performance ownership process through goal setting, training, development, and performance evaluation.- Responsible for ensuring overall adherence by all associates to site quality systems and AS9100 specifications.- Build a culture of performance by developing yearly goals and key strategic initiatives and deploy it to the entire organization via the Performance Ownership process and Daily Accountability Management**Education, Desirable Experience, Capabilities and Success Factors**- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering or Operations; an MBA/MBO or ME is a plus.- 8-10 years of direct experience in business and operations leadership within a large, professionally managed metal manufacturing and assembly company.- Previous experience with a greenfield operation is highly desirable.- Strategic AND tactical leader with strong communication skills.- Strong track record of implementing operations Continuous Improvement using lean tools such as Value Stream Maps, 5S, Standard Work, Kanban, Single Piece Flow, Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), Production Preparation Process (3P), Policy Deployment, and Visual Management.- Demonstrated experience leading operational teams to achieve significant and quantifiable business results.- Strong team building skills and the proven ability to work with a diverse group of people.- Ability to develop high levels of credibility and forge solid and positive professional relationships with subordinates, peers, and executive management.- Ability to drive accountability within the organization