Plant Manager

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This position reports to

Manufacturing Unit Manager

Your role and responsibilities

Reporting to the Regional Director of Operations, ELIP, the Plant Manager of ABB Pointe-Claire is responsible for planning, organizing, overseeing, and controlling overall operational activities. With relevant industry experience, the Plant Manager provides the necessary activities and manages projects related to processes to optimize resource utilization and ensure achievement of overall objectives. The Plant Manager uses strong leadership and mobilization skills to lead the team and promote the development. He implements a culture that allows continuous optimization of processes, and therefore, improve plant performance in terms of health and safety, quality, procurement, service, and productivity. • Plan and oversee operations activities including, among others, production, procurement, quality, health and safety, manufacturing engineering, technical services and logistics departments. • Support and lead his team in the development and management of performance indicators (KPI) of the various departments of the plant in order to ensure competitive, constant and reliable results. • Ensures the achievement of established objectives, through the sound management of improvement opportunities. Focuses on achievement of operating cash flow, project on-time and on-cost, requested on-time delivery and cost reduction. • Work with the Product Group Manager, to ensure close collaboration with the research and development, customer service, product and marketing departments. • Support and develop talent in order to foster a competent, efficient and mobilized team. • Ensure alignment of resources with the global strategic vision and ensure its deployment across its organizations. • Living ABB's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues, and the business.

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's degree and 7 to 10 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in the electrical and electronic manufacturing fields..
• Knowledge of various principles; "lean manufacturing", "lean office", "6 Sigma", flow of materials and components, information management, etc.
• Sense of leadership, respect, integrity.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and to work under pressure.
• Communication skills and bilingualism, French and English, spoken and written.

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Accident insurance
• Healthcare plan
• Wellbeing program

More about us

ABB Installation Products Division (formerly Thomas&Betts),is the number one manufacturer of electrification products in North America with a 125-year history of providing innovation and customer- focused solutions for connecting and protecting electrical systems, as well as a unique differentiated medium voltage offering. Our products are used all around you, every day - orbiting the earth, working on Mars, on the fastest trains we ride, in the fastest cars of the world, crossing oceans, in factories producing your food, in the tallest buildings of the world, in the most modern hotels and in the walls of your home. With a portfolio of more than 200,000 products marketed under more than 38 premium brand names, our Division offerings are found wherever electricity is used. We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the ninth consecutive year, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Employers by Forbes magazine. Consistently ranked as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Best Employers, Canada's Best Employers for Young People, Canada's Greenest Employers and a long-time recipient of the Women in Governance Parity Certification, ABB's culture and commitment is to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and supported. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage applicants to self-identify in the application process. ABB's Military Reservist Policy offers Canada's Reserve Force members the flexibility to undergo military training and activities while maintaining job security, seniority, pay, benefits, and privileges as ABB employees, including up to 15 paid working days per year for training, as well as extended leave for operations both in Canada and abroad, ensuring seamless career integration with our nation's defense forces. The masculine is used to lighten the form of the text.