JOB DESCRIPTION

Plant Manager

What can you expect?

Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With 70,000+ employees in 29 countries, Adient operates more than 200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual foam, trim and metal components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year. For more information, visit www.adient.com.

What will your responsibilities be?

Create profit plan including budgets, personnel and investment plans

Put into practice approved plans and create action and measures plan

Assure that all corporate guidelines and procedures, in particular BOS, Kaizen, JCMS, Six Sigma, VA/VE are adhered to

Communicate regularly with direct reports and management and supervise their performance in all functions including performance evaluation 

Assure a timely cost efficient and high-quality production in keeping with the technology level

Procure, construct and maintain buildings, machinery and equipment necessary for plan execution

Control deviations from the planned “actual” values and introducing corrective measures

HSEE :

Follow all Health & Safety and Environmental requirements that are defined on work instructions or communicated in training

Follow required emergency prevention and operational controls

Report all accidents, occupational illnesses and emergencies

Quality:

Apply, execute and maintain function related BOS issues

In addition to the above mentioned tasks other activities and responsibilities may be individually defined

Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?

Engineering or engineering technology degree

Several years’ experience in automotive suppliers industry

Experience in manufacturing technology, engineering and product quality

Management experience in Knowledge management

Ability to fluently communicate in English and German language

Interpersonal Skills/Teamwork: Ability to cooperate with people of different levels inside/ outside the company and to interact with team to reach team goals and business objectives

Leadership: Ability to empower others to achieve results through motivation, recognition and performance feedback

Communication: Ability to express information in a manner appropriate to different levels of people & to lead negotiations

Customer Satisfaction/Total Quality: Ability to recognize, respond to customer expectations with sense of urgency and even increase expectations

Initiative/Execution/Innovation: Ability to take actions, decisions & to generate ideas, products, processes in promised timely manner

Ownership/Commitment: Ability to take full responsibility for decisions & results even when all elements are not under individual direct control

Planning/Balance: Ability to set goals in consistency with company objectives and to adapt plans to changing environment

Health & Safety Awareness: Ability to identify and eliminate health, safety, ergonomic and environmental hazards in workplace

Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dagmar Sováková on +421 910 828 746.

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