Plant Manager

Come be an Employee-Owner of one of the nation’s largest producers of metal roofing and siding We sell, manufacture, build, and distribute metal building components and packages. Since 1988 we’ve grown to over 13 locations nationwide. We make raving fans of our customers with our “right, on time, every time” commitment.

Summary:

The Plant Manager is responsible for day-to-day leadership of the Pre-Engineered Metal Buildings (PEMB) rigid frame and structural steel plant in Springdale, Arkansas which is part of the Central States Building Works (BW) business providing building packages and solutions to customers across the US. The role will supervise employees, co-manage shared services in HR and logistics, develop/support initiatives to better serve customers, and maintain safety, quality, efficiency, throughput, and on-time performance. Implementing continuous improvement in process and technologies, they will exceed financial targets and work collaboratively to grow business and capabilities.

Core Functions:

• Creates, maintains, and supports a high performing safety-first culture. Implements and drives safety awareness behavior and applies safety, ergonomic, and environmental policies.
• Personally demonstrates and builds a site culture that aligns with our purpose and values of Central States. Monitors, coaches, and mentors the team, continually improving culture and leadership at all levels within the location.
• Drives proactive urgency at the site towards short and midterm goals and strategy as demonstrated by setting clear and measurable goals, which are agreed upon, communicated, and monitored constantly.
• Understands the market, customers, products, and services within the Building Works business, and in the larger steel building and metal building systems industry, and translates the knowledge into strategy and plans that ensure profitable growth in line with company goals. Coaches the team and provides guidance on the execution of profitable growth strategies.
• Prepares annual budgets, expertly uses financial reports and KPIs, plans annual capacity (people and equipment), and contributes to 5-year strategic plans as a member of the Building Works leadership team.
• Understands and applies the “Right. On Time. Every Time.” mindset with external and internal customer relationships.
• Using a Six Sigma toolkit and crucial thinking skills, the Plant Manager solves problems and prevents recurrence through detection, communication, analysis, verification, and exchange of lessons learned/best practices. Coaches others on mindset, tools, and methodologies.

Leadership Functions:

• Provides leadership, support, and direction to site employees while ensuring the skills and competency of the team members are built and maintained. Coaches all team members to improve and understand basic improvement mindset, job duties, and safety.
• Determines needed shifts, staffing, and performance improvements required to exceed customer expectations.
• Actively collaborate with Building Works VP of Engineering and Operations to ensure plant can satisfy technical requirements of customers and that the interface and communications between engineering, drafting, and detailing and the factory is smooth and effective.
• Actively collaborate with co-managed Human Resources Manager to design organization, foster culture, resolve issues, and adhere to corporate policies and standards.
• Actively collaborate with shared services in IT on requirements gathering, technology specification, commissioning, and usage in the plant, integrating with accounting systems and engineering design tools and the software interfaces of the various machines and equipment in the factory
• Mentors staff to optimize performance, grows and develops team through talent identification and succession planning, and drives for results and leadership growth.
• Invests significant effort on talent offense and aligning training and development of teams to mindsets and skillsets important to the future of our business.
• Develops and fosters effective and productive teams using ongoing performance management. Identifies and mentors high potential team members to prepare them for the next steps, including one-on-one time to have them learn from experience of doing, exposure to situation, and education for skills. Delegates as needed to team leaders to help develop them and balance supervisor workload.
• Appraises performance of direct reports and ensures the appraisal process for Operations is effective and adheres to the company’s performance appraisal standards. Gives immediate feedback on performance concerns and frequent feedback on progress. Performs Performance Evaluations each year with all EO’s covering previous year’s performance, areas needing improvement, progress during the past year, and any personal development items that should be worked on together.
• Sets area goals and objectives aligned with Site and Corporate goals/objectives. Communicates what the EO’s can do to improve the results. Creates a Line of Sight to the goals/objectives with action plans to achieve. Drives proactive urgency in team toward goals/objects that the team has agreed upon through clear communication and close monitoring.
• Collaborate closely with Project Management Organization (PMO) for the build-out and commissioning of the plant and all of the related equipment, processes, and people operations.

Operations Functions:

• Develops and executes a clear vision with sharply focused strategies that will ensure manufacturing operations support the overall business strategy and remain ahead of the competitive curve. Collects operational metrics to analyze productivity, efficiency, and set performance targets to meet revenue and cost goals.
• Plans annual, monthly, weekly, and daily capacity (people and equipment) and budgets. Uses qualitative and quantitative approaches to determine needed shifts, staffing, and performance improvements required to exceed customer expectations. Develops and executes the plan, including capital spending needed to support the necessary performance improvements.
• Works closely with sales leadership and Supply Chain departments to develop PEMB plant’s Supply & Demand and determine which action items are required to mitigate risk based on forecasted volume for upcoming months, during the monthly SIOP process.
• Conducts problem solving activities for quality and production issues for the site. Understands a structured process to solve problems with root cause and validated corrective actions.
• Monitors the site’s performance against KPI’s. Works with the team to ensure deviations (good and bad) are understood and actions are in place to address these deviations.
• Understands cost control and what financially impacts the site. This includes knowing cost impact of OT, scrap, lost production time, etc.
• Manages and supervises all plant operations, ensuring that the highest level of productivity, safety, and quality are always maintained.
• Ensures robust plant safety inspections, auditing, and training procedures are implemented to meet OSHA and other required regulations.
• Ensures understanding and compliance of all regulations, policies, and procedures relating to Safety/OSHA/Regulation controls. Constantly reinforces and stops all other activities to prioritize safety concerns.
• Ensures that Quality Control, RMA corrective actions, and internal/external customer feedback are performed based on CS standards.
• Ensures that action is taken on all quality issues and the results are being monitored. Fosters a Lean Manufacturing environment to continually manage and improve the plant’s quality. Trains staff to look for and report quality issues in all phases of product life.
• Conducts production planning each day in line with CS standards and ensures that all customer requirements are met, employee well-being and production efficiency are considered. Creates, shares, and monitors production plan. Plans and balances overtime based on workload and schedules. Watches possible deviations to this plan and makes adjustments to ensure customer needs are met.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, mechanical engineering, or industrial engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 10 years in manufacturing plant leadership role, including people management responsibility with demonstrated ability to develop people, retain employees, mentor leaders, and drive high-performance teams. Preference for multi-shift environments in an organization with managers, supervisors, and leads over different functions and shifts.
• Experience with plant startups preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years in PEMB or metal building systems manufacturing, including familiarity with American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) standards and experience achieving and maintaining fabrication certifications. Familiarity with Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) and the AC472 standards (through International Accreditation Service). Experience managing certified welders. Experience with automated and robotic production equipment preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in structural steel fabrication.
• Proven experience in managing safety and environment, production efficiency, maintenance and upgrades, manufacturing systems, equipment utilization, product quality, budget, and financial cost controls.
• Exceptional verbal, problem-solving, presentation, and facilitation skills, including executive communications and the documentation of technical requirements.
• 2+ years' utilizing lean manufacturing tools (5S, 5W2H, etc). Six Sigma training or certifications preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading and participating in safety programs, like Safety 24/7.