Assistant Plant Manager
Posted on: 15 Mar 2021
Denver, CO
Job Description
Job Description
Job Summary:
Responsible for the day-to-day performance of all departments in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations governing this facility. Assists the Plant Manager in ensuring that the plant is run in a safe, efficient, and proper manner.
Essential Job Duties:
* Interact with customers for better service needs and implement changes approved by the Plant Manager accordingly.
* Help to formulate procedural changes to ensure correct handling of products and services.
* Oversee quality control and recommend and implement changes as necessary.
* Participate and/or facilitate monthly plant safety meetings.
* Help maintain communication within the plant, Region, and company networks.
* Acting Plant Manager in absence of Plant Manager.
* Managing human resources for all depts. by hiring, terminating, and reassigning as required in addition to scheduling for coverage
* Administer disciplinary action as necessary.
* Assumes other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Supervise the work of others, including planning, assigning and scheduling work, reviewing work and ensuring quality standards, training staff and overseeing productivity. May offer recommendations for hiring, termination and pay adjustments, but do not have final responsibility for making these decisions.
Benefits:
* Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
* Paid Time Off
* 401k with Generous Company Match
* Company Paid Life Insurance and Long Term Disability
* Short Term Disability
* Employee Assistance Program
* Tuition Reimbursement
* Employee Discounts
Requirements
Education & Experience
* High School graduate or G.E.D. equivalent required.
* Minimum of 5 years related experience.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
* Demonstrate interest and knowledge of autos/trucks.
* Maintain organizational skills.
* Ability to handle multiple tasks.
* Possess the ability to manage numerous employees to meet budgeted objectives for specific locations.
* Be able to work in a fast-paced environment with decision-making and negotiating skills.
* Effective oral and written communication skills.
Essential Physical Demands/Work Environment:
* While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to handle objects and tools.
* Reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.
* Employee must occasionally lift and/or move light to moderate weight.
* Employee is occasionally required to operate equipment like forklifts.
* Sporadic to frequent travel, including flying to other plants in U.S., possibly overseas, and driving a company car.
* The noise level and temperature in the office is usually moderate, but it is required to walk by the facility and dismantling area where the noise could be high.
We offer:
* Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
* Paid Time Off
* 401k with Generous Company Match
* Company Paid Life Insurance and Long Term Disability
* Short Term Disability
* Employee Assistance Program
* Tuition Reimbursement
Pay: $53,000
Position Type
Full-time
LKQ Corporation
Chicago, IL
LKQ Corporation is an American provider of alternative and specialty parts to repair and accessorize automobiles and other vehicles. LKQ has operations in North America, Europe and Taiwan. LKQ offers its customers a broad range of replacement systems, components, equipment and parts to repair and accessorize automobiles, trucks, and recreational and performance vehicles. As of 2018, it was #300 on the Fortune 500 list. In March of 2017, Dominick P. Zarcone was selected to become the new President and Chief Executive Office.
LKQ was initially formed in 1998 through the combination of a number of wholesale recycled products businesses located in Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. We subsequently expanded through internal development and over 220 acquisitions of aftermarket, recycled, refurbished, and remanufactured product suppliers and manufacturers; self service retail businesses; and specialty vehicle aftermarket equipment and accessories suppliers. Our most significant acquisitions include:
• 2007 acquisition of Keystone Automotive Industries, Inc., which, at the time of acquisition, was the leading domestic distributor of aftermarket products, including collision replacement products, paint products, refurbished steel bumpers, bumper covers and alloy wheels.
• 2011 acquisition of Euro Car Parts Holdings Limited ("ECP"), a vehicle mechanical aftermarket parts distribution company operating in the United Kingdom. This acquisition allowed us to expand our operations into the European automotive aftermarket business.
• 2013 acquisition of Sator Beheer B.V. ("Sator"), a vehicle mechanical aftermarket parts distribution company based in the Netherlands, with operations in the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France. This acquisition allowed us to further expand our geographic presence into continental Europe.
• 2014 acquisition of Keystone Specialty, which expanded our product offering and increased our addressable market to include specialty vehicle aftermarket equipment and accessories.
• On December 22, 2015, LKQ announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the holding company of Rhiag-Inter Auto Parts Italia
• S.p.A (“Rhiag”), a leading pan-European business-to-business distributor of aftermarket spare parts for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Rhiag has operations in Italy, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland and Spain. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2016 and is subject to customary closing conditions and necessary regulatory approvals.
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IndustryAutomotive
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No. of Employees45,500
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Website
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Jobs Posted10485
