Job Description

If you are a Plant Manager professional looking for an opportunity to grow your career, this role offers the chance to lead a large, multi-shift manufacturing operation while making a meaningful impact on people, performance, and culture. The Plant Manager provides overall leadership for a manufacturing facility of approximately 350 employees, ensuring safe, efficient, and customer focused operations. This role drives operational excellence, develops strong leadership capability, and aligns plant performance with Emerson’s strategic priorities and values of innovation, integrity, collaboration, and inclusion.

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:

• Provide overall leadership for plant operations, including production, maintenance, quality, materials and production scheduling, ensuring consistent achievement of safety, quality, delivery, and cost objectives.
• Establish, track, and improve operational performance through the effective use of metrics and key performance indicators, fostering accountability and continuous improvement.
• Lead and sustain continuous improvement initiatives using Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and problem-solving methodologies to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and enhance plant performance.
• Promote a proactive safety culture by ensuring compliance with all safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements and leading efforts toward zero incidents.
• Develop and manage the plant operating budget, analyze financial performance, and implement actions that improve cost efficiency and operational results.
• Build, coach, and develop a high performing leadership team across production, maintenance, quality, and support functions, creating a culture of engagement, trust, and accountability.
• Partner with Human Resources to support workforce planning, training, succession planning, and positive employee and labor relations in non union environments.
• Ensure product quality meets customer and regulatory expectations by leading root cause analysis, corrective actions, and prevention strategies.
• Collaborate cross functionally with supply chain, procurement, engineering, and commercial teams to align priorities, manage capacity, and support forecasted growth.
• Lead talent development through effective hiring, onboarding, coaching, and performance management, while supporting long term succession planning.
• Lead in alignment with Emerson policies, ethical standards, and operational practices.

Who You Are:
You build trust by delivering on commitments, acting with integrity, and holding self and others accountable for results. You create clarity around priorities, make sound decisions using data and experience, and consistently translate strategy into execution. You develop people by providing meaningful feedback, coaching, and opportunities that strengthen individual and team performance. You collaborate across functions, valuing diverse perspectives to solve complex challenges and drive sustainable improvement in a dynamic manufacturing environment.

For This Role, You Will Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Operations Management, Business, or related field (MBA preferred).
• 10+ years of progressive manufacturing experience, including 5+ years in plant or operations leadership.
• Experience managing large facilities and multi-shift operations.
• Demonstrated strong leadership, team building, problem-solving, and conflict management skills.
• Strong commitment to workplace safety, with the ability to integrate safety expectations into daily operations and lead teams toward continuous improvement in safety performance.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Deep knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Solid financial acumen (budgeting, cost control, P&L responsibility).
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems and production planning tools.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills. Must be comfortable presenting to executive level leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to drive change.

Our Culture and Commitment To You:
At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives—because we know that great ideas come from great teams. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive. Whether through mentorship, training, or leadership opportunities, we invest in your success so you can make a lasting impact. We believe diverse teams working together are key to driving growth and delivering business results.

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WHY EMERSON

Our Commitment to Our People

At Emerson, we are motivated by a spirit of collaboration that helps our diverse, multicultural teams across the world drive innovation that makes the world healthier, safer, smarter, and more sustainable. And we want you to join us in our bold aspiration.

We have built an engaged community of inquisitive, dedicated people who thrive knowing they are welcomed, trusted, celebrated, and empowered to solve the world’s most complex problems — for our customers, our communities, and the planet. You’ll contribute to this vital work while further developing your skills through our award-winning employee development programs. We are a proud corporate citizen in every city where we operate and are committed to our people, our communities, and the world at large. We take this responsibility seriously and strive to make a positive impact through every endeavor.

At Emerson, you’ll see firsthand that our people are at the center of everything we do. So, let’s go. Let’s think differently. Learn, collaborate, and grow. Seek opportunity. Push boundaries. Be empowered to make things better. Speed up to break through. Let’s go, together.

Work Authorization

Emerson will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States. This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals with temporary visas such as E, F-1(including those with OPT or CPT) , H-1, H-2, L-1, B, J or TN, or who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, are not eligible for hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. We are committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.

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ABOUT EMERSON

Emerson is a global leader in automation technology and software. Through our deep domain expertise and legacy of flawless execution, Emerson helps customers in critical industries like life sciences, energy, power and renewables, chemical and advanced factory automation operate more sustainably while improving productivity, energy security and reliability.

With global operations and a comprehensive portfolio of software and technology, we are helping companies implement digital transformation to measurably improve their operations, conserve valuable resources and enhance their safety.

We offer equitable opportunities, celebrate diversity, and embrace challenges with confidence that, together, we can make an impact across a broad spectrum of countries and industries. Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring possibilities, or a recent graduate with an advanced degree, you’ll find your chance to make a difference with Emerson. Join our team – let’s go!

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