Plant Director

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a leading worldwide provider of filtration systems and replacement parts.

Responsibilities

We are committed to solving the world’s most complex filtration challenges. Employing innovation and breakthrough solutions, we are advancing filtration for a cleaner world. We look for the best people to help us succeed, offering opportunities to learn, effect change, and make meaningful contributions at work and in our communities. This is a place where you can make a world of difference.
Our Plant Director role at the Japan plant will have the opportunity to lead one of the company’s Air Filtration manufacturing facilities. This position is perfect for a leader dedicated to fostering team engagement by prioritizing safety and promoting continuous talent development. The ideal candidate will strive to become a trusted partner to our customers through exceptional performance in quality and delivery while optimizing costs and driving sustainable continuous improvement within the facility.

Main responsibilities:

• Manages and directs manufacturing and Distribution activities in Japan including production scheduling, planning, material procurement, inventory management, manufacturing engineering, facilities/maintenance management, shop floor supervision, quality, EHS, Customer Service and Distribution (DC) activities.
• Develops strategic plans related to manufacturing, supply chain and distribution capability and optimize the cost structure.
• Leading both the Plant and Japan Supply Chain team to drive continues operational excellence and supply chain excellence, supporting Japan business growth.
• Drive improvement on safety culture and safe work environment, employee engagement, sustainability and develop a strong operations and supply chain team to support business growth.
• Identifies and develops opportunities for improving efficiency, effectiveness and cost structure of the relevant manufacturing and supply chain operations.
• Establishes appropriate KPIs and manages improvement plans to retain and rebuild customer trust through excellent delivery and quality performance.
• Partners with Global and Regional Operations to deploy standard processes.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, engineering degree or/and Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum 10 years manufacturing industrial experience and 5 year + in operations leadership position (i.e. Operations/Plant Director) and/or general management experience, prefer experience in automobile manufacturing industrial or relevant manufacturing field.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal in English, Japanese.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and use of the problem-solving tools.
• Experience in project management.
• Lean, six-sigma process thinking.

Preferred qualifications:

• Manages the manufacturing and supply chain operations function – staff will report directly to this position or through supervisory staff.
• Demonstrated leadership skills including the ability to influence people within all levels of the organization.
• We are open to Applicants who are willing to relocate to Gunma, Japan with the required Japanese language skills.

Salary

12 - 16 million yen

Location

Gunma