Senior Plant Manager - Rocky Mount, NC

Hubbell Incorporated; Forest Oaks (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Hubbell Incorporated seeks a Plant Manager/Director of Operations for its Rocky Mount site in North Carolina. You will lead manufacturing, safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance, driving Lean transformation and budget planning while developing staff and sustaining customer-focused operations.

You will foster a safe, organized plant culture with strong metrics, continuous improvement, and training to ensure on-time delivery and high quality across the facility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or technical field; MBA preferred.
• 5 years manufacturing leadership experience at Plant Manager/Director level or Manager of Operations.
• Bi-Lingual preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing.
• Understanding of operations metrics and managing to metrics.
• Ability to influence metrics through planned decision making.
• Experience with forecasting manufacturing needs/hours to meet key objectives.
• Ability to identify bottlenecks in shop and implement improvements.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication and training skills.
• Dynamic, results oriented, metric driven leadership.

Responsibilities

• Manage and direct overall manufacturing activities of the Rocky Mount Site.
• Maintains a safe working environment consistent with OSHA.
• Originate, measure, and improve key indicators for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory and Cost.
• Ensure the quality systems are established and maintained.
• Enhance LEAN culture and 5S; drive continuous improvement and waste elimination.
• Develop budgets and forecasts; approve expenditures for materials and resources.
• Establish work requirements and ensure production schedules are met.
• Develop staff and a culture focused on high quality and customer service.

Skills

Leadership

Lean Manufacturing

5S

Six Sigma

Problem solving

Communication

Training

Metric-driven leadership

Forecasting

Bottleneck analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or technical field

MBA preferred

Job description

Job Overview

Provide leadership and is responsible for all aspects of the Operation for the Rocky Mount Plant; personnel, productivity, on-time delivery performance, cost, budgeting/forecasting as well as asset management. Manage and develop a team in a fast paced environment with a commitment to process improvements in the areas of Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery performance and inventory management utilizing business practices/processes to include 5S, Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. Deploy company and factory policies and strategies to staff throughout the manufacturing operation and translate them into business, team and personnel goals. #LI-BB2

A Day In The Life

• Manage and direct overall manufacturing activities of the Rocky Mount Site.
• Maintains a safe working environment consistent with all local, state and OSHA requirements.
• Originates, measures, and improves key indicators for the business unit (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory and Cost).
• Ensures the quality systems are established and maintained.
• Continues to enhance the LEAN culture. Ensures the production area maintains a clean, well-organized environment through "continuous improvement" and 5S. Implements and drives "continuous improvement" activities by eliminating non valued added activities in the manufacturing process (waste elimination).
• Develop budgets and forecasts. Approves expenditures for supplies, materials, and human resources, ensuring that materials, labor and equipment are used efficiently to meet productivity and customer requirements.
• Establishes work requirements and ensures production schedules are met.
• Develop Staff and a culture within the business unit dedicated to the highest levels of quality and customer service

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Bachelor's degree, Engineering or other Technical Degree preferred/MBA preferred
• 5 years Manufacturing leadership experience Plant Manager/Director or Manager of Operations in a manufacturing environment.
• Bi-Lingual Preferred
• Strong working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing
• Understanding of Operations Metrics and managing to metrics
• Ability to influence metrics through planned decision making
• Experience with forecasting manufacturing needs/manufacturing hours to meet key objectives
• Ability to understand bottleneck in shop, improve, identify opportunity for improvement and implement plan for change
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Excellent communication and training skills
• Dynamic, results oriented, metric driven, disciplined leadership

Hubbell Incorporated

Hubbell creates critical infrastructure solutions that power our customers, communities, people and the planet. Our company is strategically aligned around enabling grid modernization and electrification. As more products plug in to an aging grid, Hubbell solutions enable the transition to a more reliable, resilient and efficient energy infrastructure. Founded in 1888 our innovation has made us a leading global manufacturer of high quality electrical and utility solutions enabling customers to operate critical infrastructure reliably and efficiently.

The company operates in two segments. Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications and Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. Our vertical market solutions can be applied to markets including Data Centers, Renewables, Commercial Buildings, Industrial, Telecom and Transportation. Supporting both of our business segments is our corporate and Hubbell Unified Business Solutions teams that provide consistent process, tools technologies across our businesses.

We are committed to operating sustainably and ethically while promoting an inclusive and supportive culture for our people to grow and develop in their careers. Our employees proudly work and serve our communities from our headquarters in Shelton, CT, across the United States and around the globe.

Hubbell Utility Solutions

Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications. HUS provides the critical components that allow the grid to reliably transmit and distribute energy, as well as the communications and controls technologies to make the grid smarter and more flexible.

Hubbell Incorporated, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.

The above summary of position responsibilities and requirements is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of duties, skills, efforts, physical requirements, or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal position elements essential for making decisions related to position performance, employee development, and compensation.