Plant Manager

Ethic Solutions RH is supporting, as part of an exclusive recruitment process, a fast-growing technological SME specializing in the design and manufacture of advanced optoelectronic components for optical telecommunications networks. Recognized as a reliable world-class partner for manufacturers using advanced laser technologies, this company manufactures its semiconductor components (InP branch) in a highly controlled cleanroom environment, combining a succession of high-precision physico-chemical steps (epitaxy, plasma etching, chemical etching, material deposition, lithography…). As part of its development, our client is recruiting its Plant Manager.

Your mission A true conductor of industrial performance, you play a key role in the company's development and competitiveness. At the crossroads of strategy, operations, and innovation, you manage all industrial activities to guarantee operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and economic performance. Your objective: to produce better, more efficiently, and sustainably, while guaranteeing quality, safety, costs, and deadlines.

Your responsibilities

Drive industrial performance

• Supervise production activities and ensure the achievement of industrial objectives
• Optimize performance indicators: productivity, quality, maintenance, safety, and costs
• Deploy a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence (Lean Manufacturing…)

Optimize processes and support transformation

• Lead automation and industrial digitalization projects
• Optimize industrial flows, reduce production costs, and improve cleanroom performance
• Supervise facility management activities (Facilities, HVAC, energy performance, building infrastructure)
• Support organizational and technological evolutions

Support industrialization

• Define and validate industrial processes
• Manage investments and equipment ramp-up

Manage and unite teams Supervise and lead multidisciplinary teams covering the following areas:

• Production
• Maintenance & Equipment
• Product Quality
• Supply Chain
• Industrialization
• Develop skills, support human transformations, and foster engagement and a performance culture.

Prepare the industrial future

• Build tomorrow's industrial strategy
• Lead site modernization projects
• Develop industrial capacities and support process innovation
• Actively contribute to energy transition and reindustrialization challenges

A cross-functional role at the heart of the company You work in close collaboration with all departments (R&D, Supply Chain, Purchasing, Quality, Finance, HR, Business) to align industrial capacities with market and customer needs.

The profile sought

• Higher education in engineering or equivalent;
• Significant experience in industrial management in a demanding environment (ideally in a cleanroom, semiconductors, microtechnologies, photonics, or comparable sector);
• Strong skills in management, industrial organization, and continuous improvement;
• Mastery of industrial performance, industrialization, and transformation challenges;
• Recognized leadership, ability to unite teams and drive change;
• Strategic vision combined with a strong field culture;
• Professional English is essential (international environment).

Do you want to take on a high-level industrial challenge in a cutting-edge technological environment? Contact Ethic Solutions RH — a recruitment firm specializing in Industrial Management, Engineering, Finance, Sales & IT for SMEs/mid-caps.