Manufacturing Capacity Strategy & Execution Leader

Manufacturing Capacity Strategy & Execution Leader

As the Manufacturing Capacity Strategy & Execution Leader, you will serve as the principal architect of Atmus’ global manufacturing network footprint. This high-impact executive role demands a visionary leader who can seamlessly translate complex business demand and long-term corporate priorities into decisive strategic actions. You will champion enterprise-wide decisions regarding capacity planning, make-versus-buy strategies, footprint optimization, and capital allocation to drive sustainable operational excellence. This role is on-site with flexibility, based out of our core hubs in either Nashville, TN or Indianapolis, IN.
 

Capacity Planning

• Own the global manufacturing capacity plan across near-, medium-, and long-term horizons.
• Identify constraints, excess capacity, capability gaps, and capital requirements by plant, process, and product family.
• Lead resolution of capacity issues that cannot be addressed within individual plants or regions.
• Ensure existing capacity, productivity, and network opportunities are evaluated before additional capital is committed.
• Maintain clear assumptions for demand, utilization, efficiency, labor, product mix, and operational risk.

Make-versus-Buy

• Lead enterprise make-versus-buy evaluations for products, components, and manufacturing processes.
• Develop fact-based recommendations considering total cost, capacity, capital, quality, technology, intellectual property, responsiveness, and supply risk.
• Partner with Sourcing, Engineering, Finance, Quality, and Operations to execute approved decisions.
• Periodically review previous decisions to confirm continued strategic and financial alignment.

Manufacturing Footprint and Transfers of Work

• Develop and maintain the global manufacturing footprint roadmap and intended role of each plant.
• Lead transfers of work between plants and between internal and external manufacturing sources.
• Evaluate opportunities to expand, reduce, repurpose, or realign manufacturing capacity based on business needs.
• Ensure transitions address tooling, inventory, quality validation, systems, customer approvals, workforce requirements, and operational readiness.
• Manage execution risk and confirm delivery of the approved business case.

Headcount and Organizational Ratios

• Establish consistent benchmarks for direct labor, indirect labor, supervision, and plant-support functions.
• Translate demand, productivity, automation, and operating assumptions into workforce requirements.
• Identify structural productivity opportunities while protecting critical plant capabilities.
• Partner with Plant Managers, Human Resources, and Finance to develop and execute headcount plans.
• Track performance against approved workforce and organizational productivity targets.

Plant Productivity Hopper

• Own the enterprise pipeline of manufacturing productivity opportunities.
• Establish common standards for identifying, validating, prioritizing, and tracking initiatives.
• Ensure each initiative has clear ownership, timing, investment, risk, and financial benefit.
• Partner with Finance to validate baselines and confirm savings realization.
• Maintain sufficient opportunity coverage to deliver annual productivity and longer-term margin commitments.
• Escalate gaps in pipeline value, execution, resources, or benefit realization.

Strategy Deployment

• Translate Atmus’ manufacturing and integrated supply chain strategy into a sequenced portfolio of initiatives.
• Align capacity, footprint, capital, automation, productivity, workforce, and make-versus-buy priorities.
• Establish clear objectives, owners, milestones, measures, and governance.
• Maintain a multiyear manufacturing strategy deployment roadmap.
• Provide senior leadership with transparent recommendations, trade-offs, risks, and progress updates.

Program Leadership

• Lead complex cross-functional programs spanning multiple plants, regions, and functions.
• Establish integrated plans covering scope, resources, schedule, capital, savings, risks, and decision requirements.
• Coordinate execution across Manufacturing, Engineering, Planning, Finance, Sourcing, Human Resources, Quality, Information Technology, and Commercial teams.
• Escalate issues early and drive accountability for operational and financial outcomes.
• Build alignment and influence stakeholders across the organization.
• Ensure initiatives deliver the approved business case, not simply project completion.

Key Measures of Success

• Capacity risks identified and resolved before customer or revenue impact.
• Improved utilization of existing manufacturing assets.
• Successful execution of work transfers and footprint initiatives.
• Delivery of productivity, cost, capital-avoidance, and headcount commitments.
• Stronger alignment between demand, capacity, capital, workforce, and strategy.
• Clear and consistent make-versus-buy and manufacturing footprint decisions.
• A robust plant productivity hopper with validated and realized benefits.
   

Education

• College, university, or equivalent degree required. Green Belt certification required. 
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience

• Fifteen or more years of progressive manufacturing, operations or supply chain experience.
• Demonstrated experience in capacity planning, manufacturing strategy, footprint optimization, work transfers, productivity, or capital planning.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional programs across multiple plants or regions.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing economics, capacity analysis, labor modeling, capital evaluation, and business-case development.
• Strong analytical, financial, program-management, and executive communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence effectively in a global matrix organization.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining focus on execution and results.
• Ability to travel approximately 35%, including internationally.

Base salary range: $161,000 - $250,000
Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. The final salary offer will be determined after considering relevant factors, including a candidate’s qualifications and experience, where appropriate. 
 

Compensation and Benefits 
Base salary rate commensurate with experience. Additional benefits vary between locations and include options such as our 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Medical/Dental/Life Insurance, Health Savings Account, other personal and professional benefits. 
 

Atmus and E-verify  
At Atmus, we are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. 
Atmus will validate the right to work using E-Verify. Atmus will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.