Job: Fabrication Shop Manager / Plant Manager - Precision Metal Fabrication

Custom Built Large Equipment OEM

Custom Metal Parts Fabrication.

CNC Machining -Welding – Painting (MUST have)

P&L responsibility

Responsible for Maintenance, HR, Production, Quality, Engineering, Health & Safety

Location: Kitchener – St. Mary’s -Woodstock, ON area

Compensation: 100K -125K (depending on experience and skillset); bonus benefits

Work on-site 5 days a week

Our client is a very well-established manufacturer of custom-built equipment / parts / custom fabrication in the heavy industrial machinery sector and have a job open for a Plant Manager. The role is responsible for overall Plant Efficiencies, custom engineering under strict customer and government compliance, production targets, Production Planning & Scheduling, Maintenance and Plant Engineering in this made to order customized heavy engineering environment. This is a hands-on, ‘roll-up-the-sleeve’ work culture where you work closely with Mechanical Engineering, Shop floor operators, cutters, welders, CNC and Lathe operators to manufacture best in class custom designed parts for the equipment. The job is located in Kitchener – St. Mary’s -Woodstock, ON area and will require work on site five days a week.

Fabrication Shop Manager / Plant Manager (Heavy Equipment manufacturing) is a hands-on leadership role in CNC, Lathe, Lazer cutting, machining, welding, painting, custom fabrication of a heavy equipment plant. You will work with engineering and customers to ensure one of its kind of custom solutions to the customer on time and under budget. You will lead shop floor employees and engineers to ensure manufacturing projects are complete as per the engineering drawings. You are responsible for on-time delivery, managing the plant as a cost centre to ensure profitability. You will lead Materials Management, Inventory, Production Planning, Capacity Optimization, Warehousing and Transportation, lead special projects to improve /reduce costs in manufacturing, fabrication inventory and transportation. You will work closely with Mechanical Engineering, analyze existing processes, define SOPs, KPIs and set up measures in the metal fabrication plant.

8–10 years of leadership experience in a small custom metal parts fabrication heavy industrial parts for agriculture, construction equipment etc. Mechanical Engineering degree (preferred) with ideally 4–5 years of Plant Management experience in custom fabrication (MUST); experience leading Engineers and machine shop employees in heavy equipment machinery building custom fabrication plants, proven experience in managing plant P&L, budgets, quality, excellent interpersonal skills and English communication; Lean, Continuous Improvement highly preferred

Qualified applicants, ideally in Kitchener – St. Mary’s -Woodstock, ON area are invited to forward their resumes in MS Word format to Preeti.Dayal@hays.com; Please write "Fabrication Shop Manager / Plant Manager" in the subject line of your e-mail.