Plant Manager

Plant Manager Group: Filtration Group Division: N. America Division Department: 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. Youll own site performance end-to-end-developing people, improving processes, and driving profitable growth through operational excellence and disciplined strategy deployment.

What Youll 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, and 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 Youll be the driving force behind a plants performance and culture-directly impacting customers, employees, and profitability. Youll lead with proven frameworks (Parker Lean Win Strategy) to accelerate results in a structured, scalable way. Youll shape the future, modernization, growth, and continuous improvement with visible enterprise impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelors 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.

About Parker Hannifin Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, weve 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.
• 401k 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity 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.

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Drug-Free Workplace In accordance with Parkers 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.

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