Plant Manager
$280,000–$350,000 year
On-sitePhoenix, Arizona, United States
Job Summary
Own all production output at the Phoenix-area facility, managing throughput rate, takt adherence, quality escape rate, line uptime, and on-time shipment against customer delivery commitments. Drive continuous improvement across all production lines by performing root-cause analysis and corrective action on every throughput or quality deviation. Hold final product acceptance authority, enforcing standards with the on-site staffing partner, while overseeing site readiness for tooling, fixturing, material flow, equipment, utilities, and floor layout including contractor and vendor relationships. Build and develop the on-site manufacturing team, managing workforce planning for headcount ramp, shift structure, skill mix, and certification tracking. Ensure daily management systems include active OSHA 1910, NFPA 70E, and environmental permit compliance.
Required Qualifications
- You have run a high-volume discrete manufacturing facility end to end and can point to a specific output record: units per shift, defect rate, on-time delivery, or throughput improvement you personally drove.
- You have managed a large on-site workforce through a third-party staffing provider and held that partner accountable to production and quality targets, not just headcount.
- You have taken a facility from construction handover through first production to steady-state output and can walk through how you handled the ramp, what broke, and how you fixed it.
- You design production systems rather than inherit them: you have personally set takt times, balanced lines, written standard work, and built visual management boards for a real facility.
- OSHA 1910, NFPA 70E, and environmental permit compliance are active parts of your daily management system, not a separate function you hand off.
- You build the culture on your floor through standard work and clear escalation paths, not through personality, and your supervisors know exactly what is expected and what triggers an escalation to you.
Desired Qualifications
- Bonus: Structural steel fabrication, heavy equipment assembly, or modular construction manufacturing.
- Lean or Six Sigma Black Belt.
- Experience commissioning robotic weld cells, CNC processing lines, or AGV material handling systems.
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