Manufacturing Capacity Strategy & Execution Leader

Manufacturing Capacity Strategy & Execution Leader (TN or IN)

As the Manufacturing Capacity Strategy & Execution Leader, you will serve as the principal architect of Atmus’ global manufacturing network footprint. This high-impact executive role demands a visionary leader who can seamlessly translate complex business demand and long-term corporate priorities into decisive strategic actions. You will champion enterprise-wide decisions regarding capacity planning, make-versus-buy strategies, footprint optimization, and capital allocation to drive sustainable operational excellence. This role is on-site with flexibility, based out of our core hubs in either Nashville, TN or Indianapolis, IN.

Responsibilities

Capacity Planning

• Own the global manufacturing capacity plan across near-, medium-, and long-term horizons.
• Identify constraints, excess capacity, capability gaps, and capital requirements by plant, process, and product family.
• Lead resolution of capacity issues that cannot be addressed within individual plants or regions.
• Ensure existing capacity, productivity, and network opportunities are evaluated before additional capital is committed.
• Maintain clear assumptions for demand, utilization, efficiency, labor, product mix, and operational risk.

Make-versus-Buy

• Lead enterprise make-versus-buy evaluations for products, components, and manufacturing processes.
• Develop fact-based recommendations considering total cost, capacity, capital, quality, technology, intellectual property, responsiveness, and supply risk.
• Partner with Sourcing, Engineering, Finance, Quality, and Operations to execute approved decisions.
• Periodically review previous decisions to confirm continued strategic and financial alignment.

Manufacturing Footprint and Transfers of Work

• Develop and maintain the global manufacturing footprint roadmap and intended role of each plant.
• Lead transfers of work between plants and between internal and external manufacturing sources.
• Evaluate opportunities to expand, reduce, repurpose, or realign manufacturing capacity based on business needs.
• Ensure transitions address tooling, inventory, quality validation, systems, customer approvals, workforce requirements, and operational readiness.
• Manage execution risk and confirm delivery of the approved business case.

Headcount and Organizational Ratios

• Establish consistent benchmarks for direct labor, indirect labor, supervision, and plant-support functions.
• Translate demand, productivity, automation, and operating assumptions into workforce requirements.
• Identify structural productivity opportunities while protecting critical plant capabilities.
• Partner with Plant Managers, Human Resources, and Finance to develop and execute headcount plans.
• Track performance against approved workforce and organizational productivity targets.

Plant Productivity Hopper

• Own the enterprise pipeline of manufacturing productivity opportunities.
• Establish common standards for identifying, validating, prioritizing, and tracking initiatives.
• Ensure each initiative has clear ownership, timing, investment, risk, and financial benefit.
• Partner with Finance to validate baselines and confirm savings realization.
• Maintain sufficient opportunity coverage to deliver annual productivity and longer-term margin commitments.
• Escalate gaps in pipeline value, execution, resources, or benefit realization.

Strategy Deployment

• Translate Atmus’ manufacturing and integrated supply chain strategy into a sequenced portfolio of initiatives.
• Align capacity, footprint, capital, automation, productivity, workforce, and make-versus-buy priorities.
• Establish clear objectives, owners, milestones, measures, and governance.
• Maintain a multiyear manufacturing strategy deployment roadmap.
• Provide senior leadership with transparent recommendations, trade-offs, risks, and progress updates.

Program Leadership

• Lead complex cross-functional programs spanning multiple plants, regions, and functions.
• Establish integrated plans covering scope, resources, schedule, capital, savings, risks, and decision requirements.
• Coordinate execution across Manufacturing, Engineering, Planning, Finance, Sourcing, Human Resources, Quality, Information Technology, and Commercial teams.
• Escalate issues early and drive accountability for operational and financial outcomes.
• Build alignment and influence stakeholders across the organization.
• Ensure initiatives deliver the approved business case, not simply project completion.

Key Measures of Success

• Capacity risks identified and resolved before customer or revenue impact.
• Improved utilization of existing manufacturing assets.
• Successful execution of work transfers and footprint initiatives.
• Delivery of productivity, cost, capital-avoidance, and headcount commitments.
• Stronger alignment between demand, capacity, capital, workforce, and strategy.
• Clear and consistent make-versus-buy and manufacturing footprint decisions.
• A robust plant productivity hopper with validated and realized benefits.

Qualifications

Education

• College, university, or equivalent degree required. Green Belt certification required.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience

• Fifteen or more years of progressive manufacturing, operations or supply chain experience.
• Demonstrated experience in capacity planning, manufacturing strategy, footprint optimization, work transfers, productivity, or capital planning.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional programs across multiple plants or regions.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing economics, capacity analysis, labor modeling, capital evaluation, and business-case development.
• Strong analytical, financial, program-management, and executive communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence effectively in a global matrix organization.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining focus on execution and results.
• Ability to travel approximately 35%, including internationally.