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Plant Manager
Posted: 09/18/2026
Job Number: 63231427
Job Description
PLANT MANAGER – CNC MANUFACTURING
Location: Troy, MI
Employment Type: Direct Hire | Full-Time
Salary: $100,000 - $120,000 annually, based on experience
Schedule: On-Site
About the Opportunity
Our client, an established precision manufacturing company, is seeking an experienced Plant Manager to lead all operations at its Troy, Michigan facility.This position has full responsibility for plant safety, culture, customer delivery, quality, continuous improvement, team performance, and financial results. The ideal candidate will bring strong CNC machining and job-shop leadership experience, along with the financial discipline and people-management skills required to lead a successful manufacturing operation.
This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on manufacturing leader who enjoys improving operations, developing teams, and creating measurable results.
What You’ll Do
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Location: Troy, MI
Employment Type: Direct Hire | Full-Time
Salary: $100,000 - $120,000 annually, based on experience
Schedule: On-Site
About the Opportunity
Our client, an established precision manufacturing company, is seeking an experienced Plant Manager to lead all operations at its Troy, Michigan facility.This position has full responsibility for plant safety, culture, customer delivery, quality, continuous improvement, team performance, and financial results. The ideal candidate will bring strong CNC machining and job-shop leadership experience, along with the financial discipline and people-management skills required to lead a successful manufacturing operation.
This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on manufacturing leader who enjoys improving operations, developing teams, and creating measurable results.
What You’ll Do
- Lead all plant operations with responsibility for safety, quality, delivery, employee engagement, continuous improvement, and profitability.
- Maintain a clean, safe, organized, and professional manufacturing environment.
- Own plant financial performance, including revenue and margin forecasting, budgeting, labor planning, capital expenditures, and cost control.
- Lead CNC machining operations, including programming support, machine setup, tooling, fixtures, cycle-time improvement, preventive maintenance, and equipment reliability.
- Oversee daily production within a high-mix, low-volume machining environment.
- Balance customer priorities, production schedules, available capacity, setup reduction, quality requirements, and profitable execution.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators related to safety, quality, delivery, productivity, labor, scrap, downtime, and financial performance.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives that increase efficiency, reduce waste, and deliver measurable cost savings.
- Support quoting, order review, supplier coordination, subcontractor performance, new-product development, and program launches.
- Ensure compliance with the company’s quality management system, customer requirements, corrective-action processes, and controlled manufacturing documentation.
- Lead, coach, and hold accountable the Production, Quality, Process Engineering, and Maintenance teams.
- Partner with Human Resources on staffing, onboarding, training, performance management, employee relations, succession planning, and workforce development.
- Communicate plant priorities, expectations, challenges, and results to employees, company leadership, customers, and suppliers.
- Seven to 10 years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience.
- Previous plant-level responsibility for production, people, operational results, and financial performance.
- Strong experience within CNC machining, precision manufacturing, or a high-mix, low-volume job-shop environment.
- Working knowledge of CNC programming, tooling, fixtures, machine setup, routings, cycle-time improvement, and shop-floor problem-solving.
- Experience reading and managing P&L statements, budgets, forecasts, cost drivers, capital justifications, and variance analysis.
- Proven ability to improve safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and profitability.
- Experience leading production, quality, engineering, and maintenance functions.
- Knowledge of quality systems, corrective action, customer requirements, and controlled manufacturing documentation.
- Experience using an ERP or job-management system for scheduling, labor reporting, purchasing, inventory, shipping, and job-cost visibility. Plex experience is preferred.
- Strong leadership, accountability, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to spend regular time on the production floor and safely access manufacturing equipment and work areas.
- Associate degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent manufacturing leadership experience will be considered.
- Direct-hire leadership position
- Competitive base salary
- Opportunity to lead and shape an established manufacturing operation
- Significant influence over plant performance, team development, and continuous improvement
- Hands-on role with visibility across operations, customers, suppliers, and company leadership
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