Plant Manager

At a Glance

Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Plant Manager to join the Data Center Power & Control Division in Anaheim, CA. 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 Supervisors, Team Leads, and support the production employees.

What Will You Do?

• Oversee production management, including manufacturing operations, inventory accuracy, facilities, and planning.
• Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, local, and federal regulations by plant leadership and employees.
• Participate with and provide direction as necessary to shop floor teams in resolving immediate quality, production, scheduling, technical, or personnel issues.
• Continually review manufacturing processes and make appropriate recommendations for lowering costs and improving productivity, efficiency, labor utilization, and/or quality.
• Assist 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.
• Participate with and provide direction as necessary to shop floor managers/supervisors in resolving immediate quality, production, scheduling, technical, or personnel issues.
• Apply Lean manufacturing principles (5S, Material Flow, … ).
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams to conduct root cause analysis of all defects and lead the mistake-proofing efforts.
• Coordinate plant activities through collaboration with staff to ensure customer expectations are met and align with manufacturing and budget objectives. Resolve 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.
• Ensures the required manpower competence, skill, knowledge, and equipment are needed to achieve the production/demand targets.
• 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 a positive, team atmosphere while establishing responsibilities and accountabilities that are clear and measurable.
• Timely communication of goal progress, roadblocks, and solutions to DOO, VP, Global Operations - DPC.
• Responsible for ensuring adherence to all procedures, set-up requirements, and work instructions in compliance with ISO 9001 & ISO 14001.
• Active floor presence is required as well as holding regular meetings with employees on all shifts to ensure good communication, teamwork, and cooperation.
• Perform other similar and related duties as required.

Base Range: $185,000-$200,000/Annually

Benefit Highlights: 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

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field
• MBA is a plus.

Experience:  

• Minimum 15 years’ experience in manufacturing/production.
• Minimum 7 years of plant management experience in a production and/or manufacturing environment, including direct supervision of hourly and salaried employees.
• 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. LEAN (Value- Stream mapping) experience, Six- sigma a plus.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Bilingual Spanish is a plus/not required.
• Detail-oriented and have excellent follow-through skills.
• 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, regulations, or government law.
• Ability to demonstrate flexible and efficient time management and to appropriately prioritize workload based on 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 detail and excellent follow-through skills.
• Must possess a high degree of professionalism and ability to handle confidential information.
• SAP or large-scale ERP/MRP experience.
• Experience working with quality systems (APQP, Control Plans, TQM, SPC).
• Demonstrated understanding and utilization of lean tools to help facilitate continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Proficient using personal computers, internet, and MS Office Suite.
• Ability to interpret standards, specifications, procedures, drawings, etc.

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 www.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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