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Plant Manager, Lebanon, TN

Legrand North America · Lebanon, TN

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Level
Manager
Team
Production
Degree
Required
Experience asked
15+ years
Industry
Industrial
Posted
19 days ago

The role in 30 seconds

A management production role at Legrand North America (industrial) in Lebanon, TN.

They ask for
15+ years · degree required
Tools it names
Lean, Six Sigma, Value stream mapping, SAP

Read from the posting. The full description is below.

From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026

Production Engineer roles in Tennessee: typical posted base $114k–$151k.

Median of the low and high ends of 3 live postings that list pay, out of 31 production engineer openings in Tennessee, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.

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How this role compares

Against 30 other live production postings in Tennessee.

Experience asked
More than usual (15+ vs 5+)

Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.

Skills these teams ask for most

  • ✓ Team leadership 61%
  • ✓ Lean 58%
  • Root cause 29%
  • EHS / safety 26%

✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.

Stands out: this posting asks for Value stream mapping, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.

It asks for 15+ years. If you're close, apply anyway: requirements are a wish list. Talk to someone doing this work there first.

At a glance

Promotion path mentioned

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How to get in at this plant

Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.

  1. 1

    Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at Legrand North America

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  2. 2

    Send a short, curious note

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  3. 3

    Turn a reply into a short call

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    • What does a normal week look like on your team?
    • How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
  4. 4

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  5. 5

    Bring proof to the interview

    One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.

This plant: Legrand North America in Lebanon

1 other open role at this site.

Full description from Legrand North AmericaAs posted on their careers site.Show

responsibilities

and accountabilities.

  • ◆Actively oversees the inventory group, ensuring proper procedures are implemented to verify inventory accuracy.
  • ◆Communicates updates in a timely manner regarding goal progress, roadblocks, and solutions to the Senior Director of Global Operations.
  • ◆Ensures compliance with all safety, environmental, company, local, and federal regulations.
  • ◆Maintains the required active floor presence and holds regular meetings with employees on all shifts to ensure effective communication, teamwork, and cooperation.

Education

  • ✓Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related field. MBA is a plus.

Experience

  • ✓Minimum of 15 years of experience in manufacturing/production.
  • ✓Minimum of seven years of plant management experience in a production and/or manufacturing environment, including direct responsibility for managing 250+ hourly and salaried employees.
  • ✓Lean, including value-stream mapping, experience. Six Sigma is a plus.
  • ✓SAP and/or ERP/MRP experience with Production, Inventory, and Quality modules.
  • ✓Experience working within quality systems.
  • ✓Demonstrated understanding and utilization of lean tools to help facilitate continuous improvement in a manufacturing environment.
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Legrand has an exciting opportunity for a Plant Manager to join the Power & Thermal Management division in Lebanon, TN.

This position is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating production floor activities, ensuring that customer expectations, quality objectives, productivity, and cost-savings goals are met while providing a safe work environment for employees. The position will provide direct leadership to department supervisors and team leaders and provide support to production employees.

Be part of something new. Our Lebanon, TN facility represents the next chapter of Starline's growth journey, featuring a modern manufacturing environment, advanced technologies, and exceptional opportunities for career development within Legrand's growing Power & Thermal Management Division.

  • •Oversees production management, including manufacturing operations, inventory, facilities, quality, supply chain, and planning. Actively engages with direct reports and other departments to understand issues, analyze information, and implement solutions and improvements.
  • •Continually reviews manufacturing processes and makes appropriate recommendations for lowering costs and improving productivity, efficiency, labor utilization, and/or quality.
  • •Assists with the annual strategic and business planning process, providing key input from production operations. Develops metrics and ensures proper reporting to track the performance of manufacturing operations against budget, including revenue projections, backlog action plans, schedule attainment, throughput, labor utilization, efficiency, scrap, and cost-containment initiatives.
  • •Partners with the Global OPEX Manager to support and lead OPEX and lean initiatives that drive process improvement. Champions and provides support for all safety, quality, and lean activities, including the adoption and implementation of the Legrand Way.
  • •Participates with and provides direction, as necessary, to shop floor supervisors in resolving immediate quality, production, scheduling, technical, or personnel issues.
  • •Coordinates plant activities through collaboration with staff to ensure customer expectations are met and activities align with manufacturing and budget objectives. Resolves production scheduling problems by quickly analyzing information and implementing short-term and long-term corrective actions. Proactively communicates information to peers and works to implement solutions that satisfy all parties’ expectations. Maintains an open dialogue regarding improvement activities and key operational targets and objectives.
  • •Ensures the personal and professional development of direct reports. Effectively manages, develops, and motivates direct and indirect reports. Provides effective, constructive, and appropriate feedback and leadership to direct reports to foster a positive team environment while establishing clear and measurable

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

  • •Detail-oriented, with excellent follow-through skills.
  • •Proven ability to present facts and recommendations effectively orally and in writing.
  • •Proven ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
  • •Proven ability to make sound decisions within established guidelines.
  • •Must have the ability to make recommendations to effectively resolve problems or issues by using judgment that is consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulations, and applicable laws.
  • •Ability to demonstrate flexible and efficient time management and to appropriately prioritize workload based on organizational or departmental needs.
  • •Ability to work in a high-growth and entrepreneurial environment.
  • •Proven ability to manage people, train and motivate employees, and delegate effectively.
  • •Must be able to function in a deadline-driven environment.
  • •Excellent project management, planning, and organizational skills, with the ability to effectively manage several projects at one time while demonstrating strong attention to detail and excellent follow-through.
  • •Must possess a high degree of professionalism and the ability to handle confidential information

Legrand is the global specialist in electrical and digital building infrastructures. Its comprehensive offering of solutions for residential, commercial, and datacenter markets makes it a benchmark for customers worldwide.

Trusted by the world’s largest hyperscalers, Legrand's Power & Thermal Management division helps operators manage the critical infrastructure that powers modern data centers. Through a portfolio of best-in-class brands spanning power, cooling, connectivity, management, and supporting infrastructure, we enable customers to deploy, operate, and scale high-density environments. Combining

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