The posting
Job Description
Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Plant Manager to join the Power & Thermal Management Division. This position reports to Anaheim, CA. This position is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating production floor activities, ensuring that customer expectations, quality objectives, productivity, and cost savings goals are met while providing a safe work environment for employees. The position will provide direct leadership to department supervisors, team leaders, and support production employees.
It’s an exciting time to join Legrand’s Power & Thermal Management Division as our Cabinets & Containment business continues to grow, including investment in a new, larger, state-of-the-art facility. This expansion creates a unique opportunity to help shape the future of the operation, develop an inclusive, high-performing team, and make a lasting impact.
Responsibilities
- Oversee production management, including manufacturing operations, inventory accuracy, facilities, and planning.
- Ensure compliance with all safety, environmental, local, and federal regulations by plant leadership and employees.
- Participate with and provide direction as necessary to shop floor teams in resolving immediate quality, production, scheduling, technical, or personnel issues.
- Continually review manufacturing processes and make appropriate recommendations for lowering costs and improving productivity, efficiency, labor utilization, and quality.
- Assist with the annual strategic and business planning process by providing key inputs from production operations.
- Develop metrics and ensure proper reporting to track manufacturing performance against budget, including revenue projections, backlog action plans, schedule attainment, throughput, labor utilization, efficiency, scrap reduction, and cost containment initiatives.
- Participate with and provide direction as necessary to shop floor managers and supervisors in resolving immediate quality, production, scheduling, technical, or personnel issues.
- Apply Lean manufacturing principles, including 5S and Material Flow methodologies.
- Lead cross-functional teams in conducting root cause analyses of defects and driving mistake-proofing initiatives.
- Coordinate plant activities through collaboration with staff to ensure customer expectations are met and aligned with manufacturing and budget objectives.
- Resolve production scheduling issues by quickly analyzing information and implementing both short-term and long-term corrective actions.
- Proactively communicate information to peers and implement solutions that satisfy the expectations of all parties.
- Maintain open communication regarding improvement initiatives and key operational targets and objectives.
- Ensure the availability of the manpower, competencies, skills, knowledge, and equipment required to achieve production and demand targets.
- Support the personal and professional development of direct reports.
- Effectively manage, develop, and motivate direct and indirect reports.
- Provide constructive and appropriate feedback and leadership to foster a positive team environment while establishing clear and measurable responsibilities and accountabilities.
- Communicate goal progress, roadblocks, and solutions to the Director of Operations (DOO), Vice President, and Global Operations leadership in a timely manner.
- Ensure adherence to all procedures, setup requirements, and work instructions in compliance with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards.
- Maintain an active presence on the production floor and conduct regular meetings with employees across all shifts to promote communication, teamwork, and cooperation.
- Perform other similar and related duties as required.
Salary Range-$200,000 - $225,000 per year
Benefit Highlights - LNCA offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network.
Qualifications
Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or related field, MBA a plus
Experience:
- Minimum 15 years’ experience in manufacturing/production
- Minimum 7 years plant management experience in a production and/or manufacturing environment, including direct supervision of hourly and salaried employees
- SAP and/or large-scale ERP/MRP experience with the Production/Inventory/Quality modules
- Experience working within quality systems
- Demonstrated understanding and utilization of lean tools to help facilitate continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment. LEAN (Value-Stream mapping) experience, Six-sigma a plus
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:
- Detail-oriented and have excellent follow-through skills
- Proven ability to present facts and recommendations effectively in oral and written form
- Proven ability to work independently and as a member of a team
- Proven ability to make sound decisions within established guidelines
- Must have the ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues, by using judgment that is consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulation or government law
- Ability to demonstrate flexible and efficient time management and to appropriately prioritize workload based upon organization or department needs
- Ability to operate/work in a high growth & entrepreneurial environment
- Proven ability to manage people; train and motivate employees, as well as delegate effectively
- Must be able to function in a deadline driven environment
- Excellent project management, planning, and organizational skills with the ability to effectively manage several projects at one time while providing high attention to details and excellent follow-through skills
- Must possess high degree of professionalism and ability to handle confidential information
- Experience working within quality systems (APQP, Control Plans, TQM, SPC)
- Demonstrated understanding and utilization of lean tools to help facilitate continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Bilingual Spanish is a plus/not required
- Proficient in the use of personal computers, internet and MS Office suite of software including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook (or related e-mail system)
- Ability to interpret standards, specifications, procedures, drawings, etc.
About Us
Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Its comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and datacenter markets makes it a benchmark for customers worldwide.
Trusted by the world’s largest hyperscalers, Legrand's Power & Thermal Management division helps operators manage the critical infrastructure that powers modern data centers. Through a portfolio of best-in-class brands spanning power, cooling, connectivity, management, and supporting infrastructure, we enable customers to deploy, operate, and scale high-density environments. Combining deep domain expertise with a customizable design approach and dedicated support services, we help customers build and operate resilient infrastructure that meets current performance requirements while adapting to future demands. Power & Thermal Management industry-leading brands include Approved Networks, Raritan, Server Technology, Starline, Ortronics, Kratos Industries, and ZPE Systems.
Legrand, North & Central America offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, as well as distinctive benefits like a high employer 401K match, paid time off (PTO) and holiday pay, short-term and long-term disability benefit plans, above-benchmark paid maternity and parental leave, bonus opportunities in accordance with the Company’s incentive plans, paid time off to volunteer, and an active/growing Employee Resource Group network. For more information, visit legrand.us.
