Plant Manager

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We aspire to be an all-encompassing medium-voltage center of excellence. Our team is currently growing fast as we ramp up our ability to support crucial trends like Industry 4.0, electrification, and the energy transition.
Our work is enabling more agile and energy-efficient manufacturing, as well as driving forward electrification and the transition to smarter power grids dominated by renewables - helping to create a more sustainable future.
Our employees are passionate about continuously improving and reaching their full potential, as well as enabling our facility to do the same. We're always seeking dedicated and adaptable people with skills spanning engineering, sales, marketing, R&D, and manufacturing. If you're curious and love innovating to solve new challenges, join us!

We are looking for a Plant Manager to be joining our team in the Transformer Business Unit.

This role is based on site.

In this role, you will coordinate and support all activities within the production area, ensuring end-to-end responsibility for order execution and engineering.
The role is responsible for achieving targets in safety, quality, delivery performance, inventory, and productivity, including cost management. Additionally, the role fosters and encourages employee engagement by emphasizing safety, continuous improvement, collaboration, and change management. Supports and implements strategic projects and initiatives.

Due to the current situation, a special focus is on operational turnaround initiatives to stabilize and improve the plant performance. Key responsibilities include: facilitating cross-functional alignment across production, quality, EHS, and HR to implement recovery plans and coaching and empowering the local leadership team, fostering ownership and cultural transformation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement & manage Eaton Philosophy & related Eaton systems within the manufacturing organization, more precisely:

  • Deploy, support & maintain systems & controls that align with Eaton Business System
  • Implement Eaton Continuous Improvement System ECIS initiatives such as VSM, 5S, Lean Material Flow, collaborative problem solving
  • Coordinate continuous improvement efforts & maintain statistics utilizing appropriate tracking methods to highlight improvement areas

• Coordinate & guide all shifts of the manufacturing organization to meet plant objectives:

  • Provide input to support functions as they relate to process improvements & program implementations
  • Schedule production departments to meet schedules, inventory levels & enhance one piece flow
  • Ensure that monthly production/customer schedules are on an optimal level of productivity

• Ensure timely procurement & installation of capital equipment & tooling:

  • Provide technical guidance in the selection, design, development & installation of cost-effective production equipment as well as manufacturing processes & techniques
  • Co-ordinate & facilitate cost savings initiatives, capital proposals & cost estimates
  • Support and assist in cost & data gathering & interpretations

• Ensure quality systems & procedures are maintained & effectively used by the manufacturing group:

  • Identify & correct internal quality issues to ensure quality objectives are achieved. If needed, involve other departments. Identify & implement countermeasures for customer complaints
  • Represent Eaton in customer-related communication on quality status, including corrective action responses, customer visits, quality presentations, customer certification & satisfaction surveys & follow-up on open issues
  • Ensure customer requests are timely respected

• Deploy plant & corporate safety procedures & ensure a safe working environment and culture (e.g. machine guarding, life saving rules,...). Maintain compliance with State, local EHS regulation, policies & procedures

• Identify & nurture production supervisors, maintenance supervisors, engineering/technical & maintenance support & project & quality engineers. Assist with coordination of development & training for new associates

• Inherits the tasks of and acts as plant manager at their absence. Determine & supervise staffing levels of operators, production supervisors, maintenance supervisors, engineering/technical & maintenance support

• Advise & participate in activities related to new product in alignment with statistical capabilities & plant objectives

• Develop & promote the use of collaborative problem solving techniques to gain improvements in all aspects of Quality & Engineering

• Foster positive relationships with all personnel to ensure a productive & efficient workforce. Establish & facilitate effective employee involvement programs

• Support with HR Mgr. the works council relationships and answer to the internal requests/issues.

• Support, champion and advocate, ISO14001, ISO 50001, IATF 16949, ISO 9001

• Ensure that environmental, health, safety, data security, waste and hazardous substance issues are addressed considering local law, local regulations, Eaton policy and good corporate citizenship

• Coordinate and assist with corporate initiatives, participating on teams in order to share best practices across Eaton organization.

• Ensure stable process on Management of Change is maintained (such as production layout)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in technical field is required for the role. Master's Degree is preferred

• Between 5 and 7 years of relevant manufacturing experience

• Proven experience in navigating turnaround or crisis management within manufacturing

• Technical knowledge of manufacturing process, including maintenance & quality systems

• Solid knowledge of: Business Systems which drive performance excellence and unify the company's diverse operations, Total Preventive Maintenance TPM, and Continuous Improvement

• Demonstrated ability in budgeting, forecasting, manpower planning, coaching techniques, human relations skills, collaborative techniques

• Knowledge of manufacturing processes (molding, stamping, automatically assembling, etc.)

• Experienced with customer requirements, procedures, standards & product application

• Knowledge of interpretation & understanding of Quality Management and ISO

• Knowledge of quality discipline, including sampling techniques, cost of quality, experimental design, audit systems, corrective actions & engineering activities, KATA

• Ability to facilitate and guide cross-functional process improvement teams

• Excellent communications & employee relations skills & the ability to inspire & support subordinatesAbility to manage the teaching, development, encouragement & of personnel in the manufacturing departments

• Empowering and inclusive leadership skills and social understanding

• Fluency in English language is required, as the role is exposed at international level

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation and benefits package

• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team

• We make your aspirations matter - Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible

• We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term - not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University

• We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people's lives and the environment through power management technologies.

• We make your wellbeing matter - We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it's about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.

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