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Plant Manager

PPG Industries, Inc
United States, Alabama, Huntsville
1719 Highway 72 East (Show on map)
Apr 06, 2026

Join PPG's Aerospace Business as a Plant Manager! You will develop and maintain an organization within the site that supports both Business and Operational strategies. You will provide strategic, developmental, and tactical direction of the facility to drive Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement. Additionally, you will oversee the accurate and timely delivery of product to our customers within the desired Safety, Quality, Productivity, Cost, and Customer Service standards. This is an onsite position at based at our Huntsville, AL. facility and you will report to the Director of Global Operations.

Key Responsibilities

  • Actively engage in Safety and Quality; lead by example and ensure operational discipline and compliance with both company and regulatory standards and requirements are fulfilled for all departments on site.

  • Monitor and review Environmental, Health, and Safety performance; ensure compliance and continuous improvement in striving for a risk-free manufacturing environment.

  • Build an organizational culture that has a bias for action, commitment to value-added services/processes, and a sense of accountability and leadership.

  • Monitor and improve Key Performance Indicators; lead corrective action to deviations to plan.

  • Facilitate communications throughout the site and within the respective SBU, Platform, and Teams offsite.

  • Provide the critical thinking necessary to lead and direct the analysis of alternative approaches and methodologies necessary to deliver efficiencies and simplicity.

  • Strive to ensure that the service requirements for performance, as dictated by internal and external customers, are achieved.

  • Develop and manage the strategies and processes of the operational functions within the site; ensure agreement and progress on process standardization, accomplishment, and collaboration.

  • Delegates work assignments while matching responsibilities to the employee; set expectations and monitors performance while providing feedback and recognition of results.

  • Deliver financial commitments to operating plans; achieve expense, variance, and production plans as budgeted.

  • Participate in Working Capital management; including regular communication and action to address deviations to plan.

  • Anticipate technological industry changes and review opportunities to enhance operations to increase productivity, support business growth, and deliver competitive advantages.

  • Create ideas and plans to enhance the performance of the manufacturing site, e.g., safety, process, rate, yields and quality improvement through lean manufacturing and six sigma concepts. Stimulate site personnel to think outside the box.

  • Drive the root cause/corrective action process for critical issues and ensure that all corrective actions are completed and sustained and drive the predicted results.

  • Conformance with the PPG and SBU Quality and EH&S policies. Ensure MOCs, RCCA for EHS CARs and Quality CARs are completed as expected.

  • Communicate with all levels within organization from upper management to shop floor and from customers to vendors.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline.

  • 10 + years of operations and engineering experience, within discrete manufacturing operation.

  • 5+years of management/supervisory experience.

  • Experience working in a regulated environment, ideally AS9100D.

  • Labor relations experience is a bonus.

  • Experience driving improved performance and metrics.

  • Experience identifying and developing high-growth talent.

  • Develop short- and long-term vision for site policies, processes and structure.

  • Determine critical data requirements and tools needed to understand gaps through the value stream

  • Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply

  • Candidates must have or be eligible to obtain top secret clearance

Sobre nos:

PPG: PROTEGEMOS E EMBELEZAMOS O MUNDO

Por meio da lideranca em inovacao, sustentabilidade e cor, a PPG ajuda clientes dos mercados industrial, de transporte, produtos de consumo e construcao, assim como do setor de pos-vendas, a melhorar mais superficies de mais maneiras do que qualquer outra empresa. Para saber mais, visite www.ppg.com e siga @PPG no X.

The PPG Way 2030

Somos defensores dos nossos clientes

Proativos. Ousados. Confiaveis. Tudo o que fazemos comeca com nossos clientes. Ouvimos,

agimos rapidamente e nao paramos ate resolver seus maiores desafios. Quando nossos

clientes vencem, todos nos crescemos.

Agimos com proposito e rapidez

Ageis. Orientados por dados. Empoderados. Assumimos riscos inteligentes para nos mantermos a frente da concorrencia. Trabalhamos de forma proativa e agil, utilizando dados de qualidade para desenvolver solucoes que geram valor.

Somos excelentes executores

Produtivos. Colaborativos. Responsaveis. Independentemente do nosso papel,

identificamos problemas, assumimos a responsabilidade e sempre trazemos solucoes.

Somos proativos e responsivos para impulsionar a melhoria continua e entregar resultados.

Apoiamos nossos profissionais da linha de frente - o rosto da PPG para nossos clientes.

Competimos para vencer

Focados no futuro. Determinados. Ambiciosos. Somos apaixonados por expandir nossos

negocios e vencer juntos com nossos clientes. Entregamos resultados, adotamos novas

tecnologias e usamos agilidade e velocidade como vantagens estrategicas.

Somos PPG orgulhosos

Fortes. Unidos. Apaixonados. Trabalhamos com seguranca, agimos com integridade e valorizamos nossas perspectivas diversas. Celebramos conquistas e nos orgulhamos do impacto positivo que criamos juntos para proteger e embelezar o mundo.

Na PPG, utilizamos IA no processo de contratacao para torna-lo mais eficiente. As ferramentas de IA nao tomam decisoes de contratacao. Voce pode saber mais acessando https://careers.ppg.com/us/en/candidate-resources.

A PPG oferece igualdade de oportunidades a todos os candidatos e colaboradores. Oferecemos a oportunidade de crescer e desenvolver sua carreira em um ambiente que proporciona um local de trabalho gratificante para os funcionarios, cria um ambiente de aprendizado continuo e valoriza as ideias e a diversidade dos outros. Todos os candidatos qualificados receberao consideracao para emprego sem distincao de sexo, gravidez, raca, cor, credo, religiao, origem nacional, idade, deficiencia, estado civil, condicao de veterano, orientacao sexual, identidade ou expressao de genero.

Se voce precisar de algum ajuste devido a uma deficiencia, por favor envie um e-mail para recruiting@ppg.com.

As faixas salariais e os beneficios da PPG podem variar conforme a localizacao, o que nos permite compensar os funcionarios de forma competitiva em diferentes mercados geograficos. A PPG considera varios fatores ao tomar decisoes de remuneracao, incluindo, mas nao se limitando a, habilidades, experiencia e treinamento, qualificacoes e educacao, licencas e certificacoes, alem de outras necessidades organizacionais. Outros incentivos podem ser aplicados.

Nossos programas de beneficios aos funcionarios sao projetados para apoiar a saude e o bem-estar dos nossos colaboradores. Quaisquer coberturas de seguro e beneficios estarao de acordo com os termos e condicoes dos planos aplicaveis e dos documentos reguladores associados.Os beneficios serao discutidos com voce pelo seu recrutador durante o processo de contratacao.

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