Plant Manager

Plant Manager

Group: Filtration Group N. America

Division: Filtration and Energy Solutions (FESG)

Location : USA Slater, MO FESG

Job Family : Manufacturing and Production

Job Type : Regular

Posted : Mar 6, 2026

Job ID : 63688

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Position Summary and Responsibilities

Lead a high-performing manufacturing plant using the Parker Lean and Win Strategy to deliver world-class safety, quality, delivery, and cost results. You'll own site performance end-to-end?developing people, improving processes, and driving profitable growth through operational excellence and disciplined strategy deployment.

What You'll Do

Lead Site Performance (SQDC)

• Own and improve Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost metrics across the plant.
• Set clear targets, drive accountability, and ensure daily management routines are effective.
• Ensure a strong compliance culture across EHS, quality systems, and operational standards.

Deploy Parker Lean & Win Strategy

• Translate strategic priorities into execution via strategy deployment.
• Build a sustainable continuous improvement culture using Parker Lean tools and behaviors.
• Drive measurable improvement through kaizen events, value stream optimization, and waste elimination.

Build a High-Engagement, High-Accountability Team

• Coach and develop leaders across operations, engineering, supply chain, quality, and maintenance.
• Strengthen leadership standard work, talent development, and succession planning.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, and problem-solving at every level.

Optimize Manufacturing & Flow

• Improve throughput, productivity, and OEE through standardized work and process capability.
• Strengthen materials planning, inventory turns, and overall supply chain performance.
• Lead capacity planning and support new product introductions (NPI) and industrialization.

Financial & Operational Ownership

• Own the plant budget, cost structure, and performance to plan.
• Deliver annual productivity targets and margin improvement initiatives.
• Ensure smart capital planning aligned to strategic growth and reliability needs.

Key Success Measures

• Improved performance in SQDC.
• Sustained Parker Lean maturity (daily management, leader standard work, problem solving).
• Strong employee engagement, reduced turnover, and visible leadership development.
• Clear strategy deployment with consistent execution and verified results.

Why This Role Is Exciting

• You'll be the driving force behind a plant's performance and culture?directly impacting customers, employees, and profitability.
• You'll lead with proven frameworks (Parker Lean + Win Strategy) to accelerate results in a structured, scalable way.
• You'll shape the future: modernization, growth, and continuous improvement with visible enterprise impact.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business discipline

A minimum of 5 years' experience in a manufacturing environment of which three years was in a team leadership role

Automation and robotics experience preferred.

LEAN manufacturing training or experience

Experience using ERP

Commercial knowledge

Outstanding communication skills

Outstanding interpersonal and leadership skills

Ability to build and lead a team through change

Strong analytical, problem solving, and project management skills

Strong organizational skills

Ability to work without direct supervision

Plant Manager is expected to be onsite 5 days a week.

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we?ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose ? Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow ? comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Benefit & Retirement Plans

Parker offers competitive benefit programs, including

Comprehensive coverage for medical, prescription drugs, dental, vision, voluntary optional life, accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance and critical illness insurance with competitive premium cost.

401(k) Plan with company matching contributions at 100% of the first 5% of pay

Company provided defined-contribution retirement plan with annual contribution equal to 3% of pay

Career development and tuition reimbursement

Additional benefits including paid parental leave, short and long-term disability programs, adoption assistance, Care.com membership and financial planning assistance are provided at no cost to you.

Supplemental benefit programs including identity protection, legal protection, and pet wellness are available at competitive rates.

Paid Time Off and 13 Company-Paid Holidays.

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.

(?Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor?)

If you would like more information about Equal Employment Opportunity as an applicant under the law, please go to Employees & Job Applicants | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (https://www.eeoc.gov/employees-job-applicants)

Drug-Free Workplace

In accordance with Parker's policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug-free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.