Plant Manager

**Plant Manger - Turtle Lake, WI** **POSITION SUMMARY/PURPOSE OF POSITION:** **The Plant Manager is responsible for leadership, management, and performance of Sanmina’s Plastics Production facility located in Turtle Lake, Wisconsin. The associated duties include, but are not limited to: supporting operation’s overall business strategy by providing leadership and direction to the operations of the facility; building a strong, leadership-oriented Production Team; ensuring the facility provides outstanding products and services to its customers through high quality, competitive costs, and on-time delivery; helping to drive the continuous improvement of processes and the implementation of new technologies; developing organizational strength and robustness; and ensuring facility operation in compliance with Company policies and all laws. This person will play a key role in obtaining planned results and helping to maximize the long-term value delivered from the facility. He/she must be a change-agent and team player, who can work closely with the team to introduce contemporary operational practices to the facility and help create high performance work teams. The Plant Manager needs to be a metrics-based person, who can ensure the implementation of solid systems and processes. He/she also needs to be a leader, who can communicate the need for cultural change to a proud, workforce and motivate action and results. The workforce needs passion and a sense-of-urgency, as well as the commitment to reach its potential. The Plant Manager will be a key driver and will have a significant impact on the company’s competitive position and financial performance.** **ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES** - **Reporting to the VP/GM Precision Plastics and Medical Disposables, the Plant Manager also works closely with the local team to develop an operations strategy. This multi-year strategy should embrace the concepts, principles, and philosophies of Lean Manufacturing.** - **Develops a high performance, leadership-oriented Production Team.** - **Provides a high level of leadership and management sufficient to motivate, develop, and guide the organization to achieving operational goals and objectives.** - **Directs operations to ensure compliance with prescribed quality, cost, delivery, and other performance standards. Obtains planned results.** - **Ensures a high level of customer satisfaction and effective customer relations.** **OTHER JOB DUTIES** - **Fosters an operations environment that provides a safe and environmentally responsible facility.** - **Maintains plant property and equipment in good condition to ensure compliance with governmental regulations and to ensure effective and economical operations.** - **Builds Organizational Talent - attracts, develops, and retains talented individuals; creates a learning environment that ensures that associates realize their highest potential, thereby allowing the organization as a whole to meet future challenges.** - **Mobilizes Resources - manages staff and resources consistent with organizational goals; proactively negotiates and accesses resources outside one's immediate domain when necessary.** - **Strategic Decision Making - relates and compares; secures relevant information and identify key issues; commits to an action after developing alternative courses of action that take into consideration resources, constraints, and organizational values.** **REQUIREMENTS:** - **Minimum of 10 years’ progressive management experience in a manufacturing environment.** - **Minimum of 5 years of Injection molding experience** - **Change Leadership - continuously seeks (or encourage others to seek) opportunities for different and innovative approaches to addressing organizational problems and opportunities.** - **Empowerment/delegation - uses appropriate delegation, creates a sense of ownership of higher-level organizational issues and encourages individuals to stretch beyond their current capabilities.** - **Builds Trust - i…