Plant Manager

Building the people that build the world.

With platforms in HVAC and Detection and Measurement, SPX Technologies builds innovative solutions that enable a safer, more efficient, sustainable world. Through our RiSE talent development framework, we Reach, Identify, Strengthen, and Engage our employees to support them in their continued development. We’re a global company of problem solvers, collaborators, and innovators, and our businesses build solutions that impact the world.

As part of HVAC Cooling, SPX Cooling Technologies is a leader in high quality industrial HVAC equipment used to cool large facilities like hospitals, data centers, and power plants. With cooling towers, fans, and refrigeration units, companies rely on brands like Marley, Recold, and SGS to provide comfort and mission critical and industrial cooling solutions.

• •Provide overall leadership and direction for the Olathe manufacturing facility, with accountability for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, People and Growth.
• •Take ownership for site performance, creating understanding throughout the organization through clear communication, accountability, and transparency.
• •Establish an operating environment where leaders understand both what must be delivered and how results are achieved – both the what and how matter.
• •Provide timely, transparent communication regarding performance, risks, opportunities and recovery plans to business leadership.
• •Oversee overall plant efficiency including production scheduling, capacity planning, labor planning, materials flow, inventory control, warehousing and shipping to achieve customer commitments.
• •Ensure appropriate staffing and capability levels across shifts, departments and critical operations.

• •Build and develop a strong, accountable leadership team capable of effectively managing a large and complex manufacturing operation.
• •Foster a culture of trust, engagement, inclusion and belonging where employees feel valued and are empowered to contribute.
• •Inspire leaders to take ownership for change and results and drive decision making and problem solving skills deeper into the organization.
• •Model authentic, connected and respectful leadership relationships while demonstrating self-awareness, courage, transparency, confidence and humility.
• •Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor, actively engaging employees and leaders to understand / resolve issues and reinforce expectations.
• •Partner with Human Resources to attract, select, onboard, retain and develop talent with robust succession planning.
• •Monitor and improve critical workforce measures (employee engagement, retention, etc.) and proactively address employee relations issues with consistency and respect.

• •Establish a culture in which quality is owned throughout the organization, “don’t accept, don’t make, and don’t pass” mind set.
• •Proactively identify customer pain points and partner across functions to develop effective and sustainable solutions.
• •Engage directly in significant customer issues when appropriate.
• •Use quality data, customer feedback, warranty information and operating performance to identify systemic improvement opportunities.

• •Establish Lean manufacturing, standard work, visual management, daily tiered meetings, escalation protocols, layered audits, 5S, and structured problem solving as foundational elements of the site's operating system.
• •Encourage incremental and transformational ideas and create an environment where the organization is comfortable challenging existing practices in pursuit of better alternatives.
• •Build a culture in which continuous improvement is part of everyday work rather than a