The Plant Manager provides day-to-day leadership across assembly operations, materials, maintenance, and quality, and plays a key role in driving continuous improvement, lean manufacturing practices, and Operational Excellence. The Plant Manager is responsible for building the team that can deliver on Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, and People goals. The Plant Manager should take lead in interfacing with key members of CVG as needed to drive these goals including elevating issues and opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
1. Production Leadership & Execution
- Leads the daily production operations to ensure schedule attainment and adherence to customer demand.
- Oversee Master Production Schedule (MPS), labor deployment, and machine capacity to achieve volume targets.
- Drive productivity through monitoring and improving OEE, takt time, throughput, and downtime.
- Ensure production processes meet quality, safety, and operational standards.
- Optimize changeovers, resource allocation, and line balancing to improve output and cost efficiency.
2. Customer Requirements & Delivery Performance
- Ensure on-time, in-full (OTIF) customer delivery for all orders.
- Utilize forecasting, capacity planning, and production scheduling to meet fluctuating customer demands.
- Partner with Customer Service, Sales, and Supply Chain to anticipate demand risks and implement mitigation plans.
- Respond immediately to customer escalations and lead containment, root cause, and corrective action activities.
- Maintain plant performance to customer scorecards, audits, and quality standards.
- Play key role in representing CVG-Derramadero to the Customer Base.
3. Quality & Compliance
- Ensure all products meet customer specifications, internal standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Lead quality system compliance (ISO/IATF), audit readiness,



and corrective action closure.
- Oversee customer complaint management, scrap reduction, PPM improvements, and warranty reduction strategies.
- Maintain detailed process controls, SOPs, standard work, and documentation integrity.
4. Production Efficiency & Cost Optimization
- Achieve annual targets for conversion cost, scrap, direct labor efficiency, and overhead management.
- Identify cost reduction opportunities through lean manufacturing, waste elimination, and process optimization.
- Optimize staffing, overtime, and equipment utilization to balance productivity with cost control.
- Manage and forecast plant operating budget, capital investments, and resource needs.
5. Capacity, Materials, and Operational Readiness
- Ensure production capacity matches customer requirements through labor planning, shift structure, and equipment capability.
- Collaborate closely with Supply Chain and Purchasing to maintain material availability and mitigate supplier risks.
- Oversee inventory accuracy, cycle counting, and material flow through the plant.
- Resolve any operational risks that could affect customer delivery (machine downtime, labor shortages, constraints).
6. New Product Launch & Engineering Change Management
- Support New Product Introduction (NPI) through manufacturing readiness, training, PPAP/APQP requirements, and process validation.
- Implement engineering changes (ECNs/ECOs)



with mínimal disruption to production flow.
- Partner with Engineering and Quality to ensure smooth integration of changes to product or process.
7. Safety & Environmental Compliance
- Drive a proactive safety culture ensuring zero incidents and regulatory compliance.
- Maintain ISO compliance, conduct root cause investigations, and ensure corrective actions are sustained.
- Oversee environmental compliance, waste handling, and facility housekeeping standards.
8. Leadership, People Development, & Culture
- Lead, coach, and develop frontline supervisors, production managers, and hourly workforce.
- Build an engaged culture through communication, recognition, accountability, and consistent leadership presence on the floor.
- Ensure training, certification, and skills development programs support production capability.
- Manage performance, succession planning, and workforce readiness.
9. Metrics & Reporting
Own and report performance on plant KPIs:
- Safety: TRIR, near-misses, audit results
- Quality: Scrap, rework, customer PPM, complaints
- Delivery: OTIF, schedule adherence, backlog
- Cost: Productivity, labor efficiency, overhead, waste
- People: Retention, training completion, absenteeism
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, or related field (required).
- 7-10+ years of progressive leadership experience in a manufacturing environment; automotive or high-demand industrial preferred.
- Demonstrated success leading production, quality, delivery, and cost improvements.
- Strong understanding of lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement.
- Proven ability to manage customer-facing requirements, audits, and escalations.
- Effective leadership, ch

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