Plant Manager - Senatobia, MS

Your role and responsibilities:

As the Plant Manager (or Manufacturing Unit Manager) for the Senatobia, MS Electrification Smart Power facility, you will have the opportunity to manage all aspects related to operations of the local manufacturing unit, including the full scope of Production, Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Operational Excellence, and Logistics. Each day, you will ensure achievement of established targets by overseeing progress and define improvement actions as needed. Champions a customer-focused, safety-minded, and success-driven culture, fostering collaboration, employee engagement, and continuous improvement across all functions.

Candidates for this role need to be able to work a daily schedule onsite in the Senatobia, MS facility (#LI-Onsite). Domestic relocation assistance would be available for the ideal candidate.
This role is contributing to the Electrification Smart Power division. Total scope of employees under indirect management for this position exceeds 1,000, with a team of around a dozen onsite operations leaders as direct reports.
You will be mainly accountable for:

• Strategy: Responsible for developing business action plans for the Senatobia Plant aligned with

• Performance targets: Ensure achievement of established targets, through oversight and definition of improvement actions as needed. Focus on achievement of operating cash flow. Develop programs, projects, goals, and metrics to lead the organization to the highest level of operational performance while optimizing working capital throughout Operations. Ensures that the organization take an overall value chain perspective to meet customer expectations on quality, service levels and lead time and has a full understanding and culture of continuous improvement behaviors, methodology and processes.

• Customer Satisfaction: Delivers operational/project targets (e.g. ROTD , lead  time, quality, etc.)
  to improve net promoted score (NPS). Ensures that manufacturing resources implement improvements that address issues identified through Customer Care Resolution Process (CCRP), internal transactional partnership survey (ITPS) , Top 5 Quality Initiatives (T5QI) and  other voice of the customer initiatives.

• People leadership and development: Ensures that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed and directed. Builds an effective, capable and high performing organization. Develops talent, appoints managers and reviews effectiveness.

Qualifications for the role:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering required, Masters/MBA strongly preferred.

• 7+ years of experience leading either in Operations (preferred), Manufacturing, and/or Production.

• Related industry experience strongly preferred (electrification, solar, energy, automotive, etc.).

• Possesses strong leadership skills at both a high level for general plant operations, as well as a strong mentoring/coaching background when it comes to developing direct reports.

• Fluency in English required, Italian is not required but would be a strong plus with international collaboration.

• Ability to maintain standard/minimal business travel (5-10%)

• Candidates must already possess work authorization to work for ABB in the US.

What's in it for you:

We empower you to take the lead, share bold ideas, and shape real outcomes. You’ll grow through hands-on experience, mentorship, and learning that fits your goals. Here, your work doesn’t just matter, it moves things forward

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their- sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age,  race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.

For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf

As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer for Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities, applicants may request to review the plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762.

Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to [email protected]. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner.

ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

[excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]

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Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan. 

• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus

• Vision benefit

• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)

• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)

• Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums

• Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid

• Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid.  Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.

• Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance

• Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks

• Employee Assistance Program

• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption

• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions 

• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time off

ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.