Position Title:

Plant Manager

Reports To:

Chief Executive Office (CEO)

Role Brief

We are looking for a Plant Manager to lead our operational transformation delivering on our 10 year growth agenda, which we call our True North. This requires someone who is passionate about change and growth, who can draw upon their experience and adapt this learning to define the right path forward for our business, our size, and our team’s capacity for change. We have a team of talented and engaged people with great experience! The Plant Manager needs to meld with and mentor our team, and yet as our team is small be hands on ensuring consistent progress is made.

About Our Business

Wolfe Heavy Equipment manufactures premium equipment for underground infrastructure installation. We engineer and manufacture equipment from Plows to Trenchers that install renewable-energy power transmission lines, water drainage lines, and equipment for the oil and gas sectors. We value passionate and highly motivated team members who want to make a difference. We pride ourselves on our culture of working as a team to find innovative solutions, relentlessly pursuing excellence, and taking on challenging assignments.

At Wolfe, our goal is to be an industry leader, and help our customers realize increased value through our products and services. We aim to serve our customers with passion and pride.

Role Description and Objectives:

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Plant Manager plays a critical role in developing and implementing the True North strategy at Wolfe Heavy Equipment. The Plant Manager will be accountable for leading the engineering and production teams, which design and produce Wolfe product. This includes the Engineering, Production Control & Supply Chain, CNC Plasma and Bending, Welding, and Assembly / Test teams.

The Plant Manager is accountable to define the business strategy (True North) that delivers on Wolfe’s growth agenda and goals. The Plant Manager will use the True North process to ensure clear Purpose (direction), the right culture and team, and effective processes are developed and implemented. Defining the strategy and executing the transformation in an engaging way will be a key focus for this role.

True North also includes working collaboratively with Business Development to define the company(s) brand, actively manage the sales pipeline to ensure rateable revenue, implementation of quoting and order entry processes, and developing a clear understanding of customer value that the business delivers to.

The Plant Manager will be responsible for the company(s) profit and loss, and will be accountable for business performance with respect to exceeding our customer expectations. (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost)

The Plant Manager will coach and mentor their team, to ensure consistently improved capability and capacity. They will identify, develop, and coach high potential employees to deliver area results. The Plant Manager will also be accountable to develop the defined culture and ensure Wolfe is a great place for our team members to develop their careers.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Vision and Purpose

• Collaborate with the leadership team on developing and implementing the True North roadmap to deliver on 10-year growth plan (strategy and execution)
• Ensure strategic deployment of initiatives, excellence in execution of the strategy
• Ensure alignment of the team with business leadership in strategy and execution
• Implement the Parmerit Business System

Business Performance & Process Excellence

• Budget preparation and monitoring of P&L
• Implementation and achievement of performance targets (True North, Operational Budgets)
• Analyze and report on the plant's daily, monthly and annual key performance indicators and industry trends
• Develop and implement strategies around improving the financial performance of the department
• Define and implement the required processes such that the business runs effectively (process vs effort)
• Accountable for customer experience and exceeding expectations (Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Value)
• Handle customer enquiries and complaints which are escalated from Business Development or Service Team
• Work with the team to shift the way of working to being more process focused
• Responsible for appropriate staff levels to meet requirements of the business
• Responsible for recruitment, hiring, terminations and performance management
• Ensure that all reporting employees adhere to company policies and procedures
• Knowledge of contracting, negotiating, and change management
• Advanced proficiency with ERP, accounting software, and spreadsheet programs and applications
• Sound analytical thinking, planning, prioritization, and execution skills
• Able to identify key issues; creatively and strategically overcome internal challenges or obstacles
• A well-defined sense of diplomacy, including negotiation, conflict resolution, and people management skills
• Effective attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy
• Performs other responsibilities as necessary

Operational Excellence

• Assess the business against the 4 stages of operational excellence
• Engage the business end to end on the journey

People

• Right people in the right seats
• Build a high performing team that executes strategy and business results
• Identify, develop and coach high potential employees
• Build bench strength that is ready to fill higher level roles as the business grows

Culture

• Work with the team to define and implement the desired culture (problem solving, learning, growing etc.)
• Ensure Wolfe is a company that challenges our team, yet there is balance and people can be successful and enjoy work

Communication

• Ensure there consistent and appropriate communication to all team members
• Business Updates, 1-1’s etc.

Education and Experience:

• Post-Secondary diploma or degree in a business technical field
• 10+ years of management experience in a manufacturing environment with proven leadership abilities
• Experience leading a team through a lean or operational excellence transformation
• High level of integrity, confidentially, and accountability
• Work requires willingness to work a flexible schedule

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• On-site parking
• RRSP match
• Vision care

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Strathroy, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Plant Management: 10 years (preferred)
• Leadership: 10 years (preferred)
• Lean manufacturing: 10 years (preferred)

Work Location: One location

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