Plant Manager

About Us

Focused on leading the transition to a sustainable future, Glen Dimplex Americas is enhancing the moments that matter in life with a commitment to delivering the best design and efficiency in the areas of temperature control and comfort creation. With operation throughout North America the success of the Glen Dimplex Americas organization is a testament to the strength of our people and investment in innovation and technology.

Our portfolio of industry recognized brands includes Dimplex, Cadet and Faber. Together these brands provide complete product offerings in the residential and commercial comfort categories, ranging from electric heaters, to fireplaces and controls.

Glen Dimplex Americas is a division of the Glen Dimplex Group - the world's largest manufacturer of electrical heating, which holds significant global market positions in domestic appliances, heating, cooling, ventilation, and renewable energy solutions. Headquartered in Dublin, Ireland the Glen Dimplex Group privately owns over 40 brands with operations in 80 countries.

 

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the London Plant Manager is a key member of the leadership team accountable for ensuring that the Glen Dimplex Americas London Manufacturing facility consistently meets business needs and expectations.

The Plant Manager sets an appropriate example, coaches and guides individuals and teams, and effectively collaborates cross functionally to achieve organizational goals and results. They ensure that the London facility consistently manufactures required products in a safe, cost-effective, and high-quality manner. The Manager oversees all production operations, manufacturing engineering, plant-level purchasing and materials management, maintenance, and local facilities.

 

In this role you will:

• Manage and coordinate all factory operations to ensure timely and cost-effective production, ensuring that all plant operations adhere to company policies.
• Advocate for the safety of all employees in the building, ensuring that the safety committee is being run in a responsible, proactive manner. Ensure that all relevant local and federal statutes for safety, quality, and environmental standards are fully satisfied at all times.
• Develop annual plant operating budgets, monitor, manage, and report operating costs against budgets, and act to communicate, understand, and mitigate overruns.
• Ensure production output is aligned to planning requirements and manufactured to product specifications. Manage the master production schedule, coordinating activities to efficiently utilize plant assets to meet required production volumes.
• Develop and manage plant production capacity models.
• Leverage Lean Manufacturing methods and techniques to champion continuous improvement in all aspects of operations, including but not limited to scrap reduction, equipment utilization and labour efficiency. Support and drive VAVE activities.
• Maintain and protect plant assets and equipment through preventative maintenance. Ensure all tooling and equipment is maintained in a safe and effective operating order.
• Coordinate with Human Resources on labor issues, safety, security, employee relations, hiring, scheduling, training, and strategic management.
• Ensure that MRO and raw materials are purchased and pipelined to support production requirements, and that plant level inventories are managed and controlled. Manage plant-level shipping, receiving, and transportation logistics.
• Interface with the local facility landlord representatives to address building and grounds issues and concerns.
• Produce and maintains operational dashboard and reports.
• Partner with and benchmark against other manufacturing sites to share best practices and drive consistent manufacturing operations across Glen Dimplex Americas facilities.

Supervisor Responsibilities:

• Manages plant supervisors, area managers, plant support staff including purchasing, planning, engineering and maintenance, and all production workers in accordance with company policies and applicable laws.
• Responsible for the overall direction, execution, coordination, and evaluation of facility activity.

 

As a people leader you will:

Shape a Sustainable Future

• Must anticipate the future by sense and acting upon emerging trends
• Must engage and inspire people around priorities.  Energize teams and to make our purpose real.
• Own the Outcome and make growth happen.  Execute for today and drive future growth.

Keep the Customer Central

• Shape the customer needs.  Understand and exceed customer needs
• Build close customer relationship.  Establish relevant and trusted customer engagements
• Creative distinctive value. Bring unique solutions to our customers

Act with Agility

• Embrace Change.  See change as an opportunity rather than a challenge
• Show resilience.  Display determination and supports other to do the same
• Demonstrate curiosity.  Seek new learnings and experiences
• Solve problems.  Make sense of complexity to generate solutions

Fuel Innovation

• Seek out the possible.  Collaborate as one to imagine and discover opportunities
• Lead Change.  Shape a culture to drive disruptive change
• Keep it Simple.  Drive out complexity wherever possible

Champion People Development

• Start with yourself.  Be humble and self-aware
• Develop capability.  Foster a culture of development
• Grow Future leader.  Nurture the next generation

 

 

What You Need

• Mechanical/industrial engineering or related major, or equivalent combination of education and experience, including 5 or more years’ experience managing a manufacturing plant and large manufacturing teams.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of industrial engineering, human resources laws and regulations, and employee relations skills required.
• Advanced knowledge of value stream mapping, value stream analysis, visual management, standardized work, 5S, quick changeover (SMED), TPM & Kanban. Demonstrated leadership ability to create a dynamic organization that is continuously improving and learning how to identify waste, reduce costs, and drive problem solving to every level of the organization.
• A history of partnering with internal stakeholders in an open and collaborative manner.
• Strong coaching and leadership skills with the ability to motivate teams and drive an operational culture that reflects a sense of urgency.
• A willingness to get into the details to seek out issues and opportunities.
• SAP experience would be considered an asset.

 

What We Offer

Core Total Rewards

• Fully funded Group Benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, dependent life, AD&D, short term disability, & long term disability)
• Group RRSP with 100% Employer Match up to 4%
• Freedom to Choose, Consult +, and Telus Pharmacy Group
• 3 Weeks Vacation Immediately
• Employee Assistance Program
• Workplace Wellness Program
• Support of professional memberships/certifications

Additional Rewards

• Educational Reimbursement Program
• Employee Charitable Donation Program (monetary and product donations)
• Employee Service & Recognition Awards
• Referral Bonus Program
• Summer Fridays
• Employee Engagement Committee initiatives
• Smart casual dress atmosphere
• A unique opportunity to be a key player in a growing global organization
• An innovative fast-paced culture focused on people

 

Our Values

We Think Customer – we aim to put our customers at the center of everything we do, taking time to understand their needs; creating solutions that meet and exceed their expectations, enhancing everyday moments

We Care About People – we recognize the power of a community with a common purpose; empathizing with others’ point of view and acting with integrity to create a safe and healthy environment

We Value Innovation – we are building a better future day by day; developing innovations that will create quality, consumer-centric, sustainable solutions

We Keep it Simple – we make the complex simple by driving out inefficiencies; which enables us to be agile, responsive and to get the job done

 

How to Apply

 

Our team members include people like you: enthusiastic, innovative, motivated and creative. If you are interested in joining our team or learning more about this opportunity, please apply now.  Glen Dimplex Americas offers a competitive total rewards package, and we are continually striving to attract and retain the best talent available, building ongoing success for both our organization and our employees!

 

Glen Dimplex Americas is committed to fair and accessible employment practices.

We thank all applicants for their interest in Glen Dimplex Americas, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

 

Glen Dimplex Americas may use AI on different recruitment platforms to screen applications.