General Manager

at  Adient Aerospace LLC

Adient Aerospace is a Joint Venture between Adient and Boeing. Boeing brings a deep knowledge of Aerospace, and Adient is the world’s leader in automotive seating. At Adient Aerospace, it is our mission to deliver innovative seating design through precise operational excellence, resulting in a superior customer experience. We bring the right pieces together, in precisely the right way, at precisely the right time.
Adient Aerospace is looking for a General Manager to join our team on site at our Central Coast location in Santa Maria, California, and you must live in or be willing to relocate. We look for highly proficient individuals who are collaborative, value diversity, enjoy working as a team, and share our passion to succeed. We invest in our employees with opportunities for professional development and we offer competitive benefits.
Are you the right piece to complete our puzzle?

JOB SUMMARY

The General Manager directs single-site manufacturing operations through a team of functional managers and supervisors. The position ensures profit contribution and increasing levels of customer and employee satisfaction while improving the efficiency of manpower, materials, and equipment.
SUMMARY OF JOB DUTIES - Essential Functions (Other duties and projects may be assigned or requested.)

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• Accomplish company objectives by establishing plans, budgets, and results measurements; allocating resources; reviewing progress; making mid-course, corrections
• Oversee and provide leadership to fabrication, assembly, supply chain, production control, logistics management, manufacturing & product engineering functions, IT, environmental, health & safety, and facility management
• Manage policy deployment in the areas of manufacturing techniques, cost reduction, complete and on-time delivery, safety, customer satisfaction, employee relations, visual controls, and facility performance measures
• Develop strategic plans by studying technological and financial opportunities; presenting assumptions; recommending objectives
• Implement and execute Lean principles
• Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing Company standards
• Identify, communicate, and drive implantation of capital investments and improvement projects
• Manage, analyze and report out product recurring cost performance to program budgets and targets
• Develop and report factory KPIs in leading and lagging format
• Conducting continuous performance implementation in all aspects of the manufacturing business
• Provide leadership for employee relations through effective communications, coaching, training, and development; problem resolution to facilitate faster improvements and improved working relationships
• Partner with the Quality team ensuring compliance with AS9100
• Determine operations head count needs; balances work cell capacity/loading across the facility
• Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities; responsible for adhering to budgetary guidelines
• Accomplish staff results by communicating job exceptions; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, disciplining employees’ developing coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards
• Maintain a safe, secure, and legal work environment, adhering to all state and federal regulations, Company policies and procedures
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Maintain and protect the confidentiality of the Company’s information and products

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.
• Master’s in Business Administration is preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• 5 - 15+ years of direct experience.
• Implementation of Lean principles in an industrial, discrete production environment
• Site or Plant Manager having management responsibility over fabrication, assembly, supply chain, production control, logistics management, manufacturing & product engineering functions, IT, environmental, health & safety, and facility management
• Working experience with Quality Engineering and Quality Assurance in AS9100 environment
• Responsibility for developing and reporting factory KPIs in leading and lagging format
• Responsibility for product recurring cost performance to program budgets and targets
• Conducting continuous performance implementation in all aspects of the manufacturing business

SKILLS:

• Problem solving/analysis, leadership, teamwork orientation, project/budgetary management, communication proficiency, performance management, technical capacity.
• 5+ years of Lean and Six-Sigma training & implementation in factory environment

PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• N/A

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Communicate clearly and effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.

• Accomplish company objectives by establishing plans, budgets, and results measurements; allocating resources; reviewing progress; making mid-course, corrections
• Oversee and provide leadership to fabrication, assembly, supply chain, production control, logistics management, manufacturing & product engineering functions, IT, environmental, health & safety, and facility management
• Manage policy deployment in the areas of manufacturing techniques, cost reduction, complete and on-time delivery, safety, customer satisfaction, employee relations, visual controls, and facility performance measures
• Develop strategic plans by studying technological and financial opportunities; presenting assumptions; recommending objectives
• Implement and execute Lean principles
• Maintain quality service by establishing and enforcing Company standards
• Identify, communicate, and drive implantation of capital investments and improvement projects
• Manage, analyze and report out product recurring cost performance to program budgets and targets
• Develop and report factory KPIs in leading and lagging format
• Conducting continuous performance implementation in all aspects of the manufacturing business
• Provide leadership for employee relations through effective communications, coaching, training, and development; problem resolution to facilitate faster improvements and improved working relationships
• Partner with the Quality team ensuring compliance with AS9100
• Determine operations head count needs; balances work cell capacity/loading across the facility
• Maintain staff by recruiting, selecting orienting, and training employees; developing personal growth opportunities; responsible for adhering to budgetary guidelines
• Accomplish staff results by communicating job exceptions; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, disciplining employees’ developing coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, procedures, and productivity standards
• Maintain a safe, secure, and legal work environment, adhering to all state and federal regulations, Company policies and procedures
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Maintain and protect the confidentiality of the Company’s information and product