Plant Manager

Allegion Canada Inc.; Farmington (CT); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401K Matching

Paid Time Off

Tuition Reimbursement

Wellness Program

Job summary

Allegion’s Stanley Access Technologies plant in Farmington, CT seeks a Plant Manager to lead safe, cost-effective manufacturing operations. The role focuses on delivering significant improvements in on-time delivery, cost, and lead times while developing a world-class plant organization.

The candidate will drive a 5-year strategy, oversee KPI reviews, and implement lean initiatives to boost performance and customer satisfaction. Strong leadership and engineering background preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering preferred.
• Ten years manufacturing operations leadership experience.
• Strong leadership and people development skills.
• Ability to drive cost reduction and productivity improvements.

Responsibilities

• Drive rapid, significant and sustainable improvements in delivery, costs, and lead times.
• Develop and execute a 5-year manufacturing strategy.
• Lead KPI reviews with plant and business-unit leaders.
• Oversee implementation of lean manufacturing initiatives (5S, SMED, TPM).
• Coach and mentor a high-performing team and ensure KPI tracking.
• Coordinate manufacturing with sales, design engineering, and other functions.

Skills

Leadership

Change management

Lean manufacturing

Strategic planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Urgency & credibility

Education

Bachelor’s in Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering

Job description

Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 40 brands, 14,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, Allegion is proud to be recognized with the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the third consecutive year, earning distinction in both the employee engagement and strengths categories. This year, Allegion also received Gallup’s With Distinction honor — a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures.

Plant Manager, Stanley Access Technologies – Farmington, CT

Stanley Access Technologies is recognized as an industry leader in the manufacturing, installation, and servicing of automatic doors. Our growing product and service offerings have driven significant growth for our service business. Join our world class team of diligent problem solvers, innovators, fresh thinkers, and communicators who excite and inspire others.

Plant Manager

The Plant Manager is responsible for driving continuous and significant improvements in the areas of safety, quality, delivery, cost, and working capital. This will be achieved by developing a world class plant operations organization and methodically implementing the strategic objectives (a unique combination of strategic planning, strategy deployment, lean management, and manufacturing techniques).

What You Will Do:

• Drive rapid, significant and sustainable improvement in on-time delivery, lot size, lead time and cost reduction
• Provide the leadership necessary for the development and execution of a manufacturing 5 yr strategy.
• Lead regular KPI reviews with the Operational and Business unit leaders
• Leads the development and implementation of the roadmap to achieve breakthrough operating performance (5S, SMED, TPM, etc)
• Coach and mentor an outstanding team
• Ensure key manufacturing metrics and key performance indicator systems are consistently tracked
• Continually evolve manufacturing efficiency and assess opportunities to reduce cost, taking aggressive action to drive financial performance
• Oversee coordination of the manufacturing function with sales, marketing, design engineering, and other functional organizations
• Continually benchmark best practices and drive use of such across responsible operations

What You Need to Succeed:

Bachelor’s Degree, Industrial Engineering or Manufacturing Engineering preferred. Ten years manufacturing operations leadership experience.

Additional Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• The potential to lead larger and more strategically complex manufacturing organizations or assume a full P&L general management assignment is desired.
• The successful candidate will also be a strong developer of people and teams, believing it a critical component in driving organizational change and effectiveness.
• Highly customer responsive.
• Very resourceful, combining strong manufacturing and technical abilities with good overall management acumen.
• Ability and passion to lean operating system culture.
• Understanding of non-repetitive, configurable manufacturing processes.
• Ability to create followership and lead an organization through significant change and improvement.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and the ability to effectively communicate throughout all levels of the organization.
• Possesses a high sense of urgency.
• Unwavering credibility with the ability to build consensuses.
• Ability to build relationships between all business functions.

Why Work for Us?

Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if: You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there’s plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, “this is your business, run with it”. You’re looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us. You want a culture that promotes work-life balance. Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work! You want to work for an award-winning company that invests in its people. Allegion is proud to be a recipient of the Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for the second year in a row, recognizing our commitment to employee engagement, strengths-based development, and unlocking human potential.

What You’ll Get from Us:

• Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you “be safe, be healthy” Unlimited Paid Time Off
• A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, which currently offers a 6% company match and no vesting period
• Health Savings Accounts – Tax-advantaged savings account used for healthcare expenses
• Flexible Spending Accounts – Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare and/or dependent daycare expenses
• Disability Insurance –Short-Term and Long-Term coverage, paid for by Allegion, provides income replacement for illness or injury
• Life Insurance – Term life coverage with the option to purchase supplemental coverage
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Voluntary Wellness Program – Simply complete wellness activities and earn monetary rewards
• Employee Discounts through Perks at Work
• Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can “serve others, not yourself”
• Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths assessment & coaching

We Celebrate Who We Are!

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we’re required to, but because it’s the right thing to do. We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.

Allegion is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.