Title: Director, Plant Operations
Reports to: President
Location: Based in Lansing, Michigan
LG Energy Solution Michigan Inc. (LGESMI) develops and manufactures large lithium-ion polymer batteries and packs for electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications. Come join the leader in advanced EV batteries! www.lgenergymi.com
Summary:
The Director of Plant Operations is to oversee the daily operations of manufacturing plant for LGESMI, ensuring efficiency, safety and quality in production processes.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with plant managers and leaders from Administration, HR and EHS functional teams/ department to identify site specific opportunities and translate those into action plans and goals.
- Be a key representative of the plant and company to local, state officials and communities.
- Collaborate with health/safety managers to develop and implement safety policies for general plant operation
- Safety, Compliance and Coordination:?Ensure strict adherence to OSHA, state, federal, and company regulations and maintain high competence in employee safety, facility housekeeping, sanitation, security, and safety.
- Drives a strong and health safety culture that is compliant with regulations and engages employees to effectively decrease injury rate.
- Partner with Plant Managers and Human Resources to continually evaluate opportunities to enhance and improve teamwork, especially within the plant leadership teams at each location.
- Lead the Employee Relations, overseeing the implementation of a core strategy, process and execution of investigations of grievances and employee issues including but not limited to harassment, discrimination, policy violations and general performance concerns.
- Develop and implement a comprehensive labor relations strategy to maintain a union-free environment and promote positive employee relations.
- Guide the translation of the labor relations strategy to various lines of business and ensure alignment with business strategies
- Delegate and assign work tasks to production staff to achieve set manufacturing targets
- Optimize production process by eliminating wastes and other constraints to improve work efficiency
- Oversee the long-term planning and initiatives geared towards enhanced operations
- Prepare and submit to upper management regular reports of plant operations
- Carry out research to discover ways of improving on existing operational processes
- Maintain accurate inventory and ensure proper storage of received raw materials
- Utilize cost-benefit analytical techniques in improving operational efficiency.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required in industrial engineering or related field.
- MBA or MS preferred, or equivalent, relevant experience
Experience:
- 10 to 15+ years of experience in operation management in a manufacturing plant setting.
- 7 to 10+ years of experience leading and managing multiple processes
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in employee relations, labor relations experience preferred.
- Prior experience in roles supporting hourly field or frontline team member organizations preferred.
Skills:
- Strong interest in automotive industry and basic understanding of manufacturing process
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills; both written and oral; experienced communicating with all levels of an organization across multiple geographies
- High attention to detail and willingness to engage in manual work if needed, such as inventory verification preferred
- Ability to achieve goals under pressure and tight milestones
- Proficient in MS Office Suite
- Strong written and oral communication skill
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams
- Organized and decisive decision maker
- Detail oriented and strong understanding of multiple metrics
- Ability to work flexible hours as needed to support entire production team
- Ability to work flexible hours as needed to support and work with HQ and global sites
