Plant Manager

What you'll do:

• Develop short- and long-term plans in alignment with the strategic plan and annual profit plan objectives to drive superior operational performance and financial results.
• Establish objectives and track key performance indicators across the organization; ensure continued improvement in all balanced scorecard indicators with emphasis on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Inventory, Cost and Culture.
• Proactively champion a culture focused on Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS), driving a zero-incident culture. Empower employees and drive accountability for EHS to all levels in the organization.
• Create a culture of exceeding customer expectations, ensuring that the organization is highly responsive to customer needs and issues. Work with key stakeholders across Marketing, Sales, Engineering and Operations to ensure achievement of end-to-end quality goals.
• Establish inventory plans by product family/site; proactively manage inventory to profit plan, driving improved and sustainable processes; execute the Supply Demand Planning (SIOP) process, driving ownership and collaboration across all stakeholder groups; generate forecasts that meet customer expectations and profit plan objectives.
• Develop and cultivate relationships with key suppliers (internal and external) to ensure high quality relationships and products.
• Drive cost out, meeting or exceeding profit plan targets.
• Continuously improve operations through alignment with the Eaton Business System with a strong focus on driving a Continuous Improvement Culture. Support meeting all of the criteria identified in the Eaton Business System (EBS) including Eaton Lean System, OpA, MESH, HR-Opr review, PROLaunch and MMA.
• Build organizational capability by providing leadership in recruiting, goal alignment, employee development, performance management and communication. Ensure motivation and retention of a high performance plant leadership team and workforce.
• Demonstrate a leadership style that perpetuates the Eaton Values and Philosophy and the Eaton Code of Ethics.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 10 years of experience with progressive levels of accountability and responsibility in Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, OPEX and/or related support functions in a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 5 years of experience managing people in a manufacturing environment.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H1B, H1-B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's in Business Administration (MBA) from an accredited institution is preferred.

Job Criteria:

• Knowledge of current technologies in manufacturing, engineering, materials management/inventory control, distribution and logistics, purchasing, quality assurance systems processes and practices.
• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Strong collaborative skills with proven ability to drive change and leadership ownership / accountability.
• Ability to build high performance teams, lead cross-functionally, develop & train employees.
• Ability to provide leadership, performance results, org development and operational improvement.

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Client-provided location(s): Boston, NY

Job ID: Eaton-51524Olean

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-10-03T18:37:09