Plant Manager (39978)

Plant Manager (39978) Missoula, MT 59808

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At American Eagle Instruments Inc., we pride ourselves on manufacturing high-quality dental hand tools in beautiful Missoula, Montana. As an established industry leader, AEI offers excellent career growth opportunities, competitive salaries and benefits and a dynamic work environment. We are willing to train employees to start, with no experience necessary! Together with our parent company, Young Innovations, we manufacture, and market high quality dental instruments, equipment, and supplies. With an outstanding reputation for quality, our company has a broad portfolio of market-leading products across a variety of categories.

Role Overview:

Oversees all plant operations with primary responsibility for driving and guiding teams in various functional capacities, including production, engineering, maintenance, purchasing/planning/scheduling, materials/inventory management, shipping/receiving, and facility management. Embraces role as a strong and visible leader who engages all levels of direct and indirect reports at site. Identifies and successfully executes strategic business and operations initiatives. Partners with Quality to ensure facility compliance with ISO standards and FDA guidelines. Promotes and maintains an enthusiastic and motivated work environment at all times.

Qualifications Responsibilities:

Demonstrate strong general leadership throughout facility to all levels of direct and indirect reports, including communicating operations and company objectives/successes/opportunities for improvement, and engaging staff and shop floor employees in developing and implementing continuous improvement solutions Recruit, hire, retain, and develop a high-performing operations leadership team focused on accountability, goal achievement, and engaging people management, and ensure that the team adopts a similar focus in the selection and development of their own high-performing groups Provide oversight and general direction to all production-related operations of facility, establishing accountability and feedback loops with the operations management team to ensure that: Purchasing, planning and allocation of manufacturing resources (both people and materials) meet short and long-term production requirements; Daily production and shipping activity meets on-time customer demand; Appropriate preventive maintenance and machine troubleshooting activities are completed; All safety and quality procedures are implemented, maintained, and followed Champion Lean Manufacturing and all other continuous improvement initiatives within the facility Leads the development, monitoring, analysis, and communication of plant performance via dashboards, scorecards, and internal specific reports; share data with appropriate parties as needed Own all elements of operations budget for facility, including preparation and adherence to operating and capital expenditure budgets in-line with business unit and corporate objectives Partner with on-site and corporate Quality and Regulatory to ensure ongoing facility compliance with ISO standards and FDA guidelines Partner with various operations and matrixed business partners to develop and execute strategic and tactical operating plans for facility, such as: Aligning operational projects and initiatives to total company objectives Engaging S&OP activities to ensure production is able to meet recurring and one-off customer demand Partnering with Product Marketing and Product Development Engineers to successfully transfer new products to manufacturing Guide maintenance Prepares infrastructure improvement plans and collaborates with corporate IT group to plan and implement approved projects

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in operations management, industrial engineering, supply chain/logistics or a related field and a minimum of 10 years of experience in manufacturing, including 5 years in a leadership capacity; or an equivalent combination of training and experience. Expert-level knowledge of lean manufacturing concepts and methodologies and proven ability to execute initiatives and maintain a strong lean environment. Demonstrated success in developing teams, driving change management, and implementing a culture of accountability, engagement, and continuous process improvement Understanding and experience in the application of a high-functioning Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process Experience in a regulated environment, preferably FDA and Medical Devices, with knowledge of

ISO 13485

standards, FDA guidelines, current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP), and European Medical Device Directive Strong financial acumen with the ability to manage budget and P&L responsibilities Ability to develop, track, analyze, and report/communicate on appropriate operational metrics Excellent verbal and written communication skills to all levels inside and outside the organization Strong project/time management skills with the ability to juggle multiple high-priority demands in a fast-paced environment Superior root cause problem solving skills Knowledge and familiarity with ERP systems

Physical Requirements:

Able to use a personal computer. Able to stand for long periods of time, to reach and perform lifting (occasionally lifting up to 50 pounds).

Working Conditions:

Office environment and occasional exposure to manufacturing plant environment, with some abnormal variations in temperature, unavoidable fumes, noise, dust and atmospheric conditions.

Travel:

Occasional travel (up to 15% of the time). Young Innovations, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and E-Verify participating employer. Share job details to