Manufacturing Plant Manager

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We’re more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We’re a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we’re leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.


The Plant Manager is the senior leader on site and is responsible for everything that goes on inside the fence-line and is the driver of the production process. We look to the Plant Manager to build a collaborative environment between operations, sales, engineering, accounting, and transportation. This dynamic leader will be pushing continuous improvement in workplace safety, production efficiency, product cost, and customer service.

This role will be on site at our facility in Platteville, CO.


Ensure the plant employees and guests on site comply with safety and environmental practices – lead by example and build a safety first culture
Lead production scheduling to meet customer needs including timely delivery
Develop a keen focus on customer service and proactive communication across the team
Partner with the engineering team to ensure proper drawings and designs are being used during the manufacturing process
Purchase material/services to successfully operate the facility
Successfully hire, supervise, orient, train and retain operations/product staff
Ability to read drawings, plan production tasks from those drawings, and coach employees to produce product correctly
Ability to operate some of the standard tools on the plant floor such as overhead cranes, hand tools, batch plant, etc. While the Plant Manager will not be asked to operate these things continuously, having some of these skills will make him/her a better coach and troubleshooter
Motivate crews during morning huddles. Lead inventory counts. Promote safety best practices in meetings with other Plant Managers
Perform any other duties as assigned by the General Manager as deemed appropriate and necessary by them

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Engineering or equivalent experience
~10+ years of experience working in a leadership role in an industrial manufacturing environment
~ Experience with precast/concrete or building materials is a plus
~ Proven track record of developing, leading and maintaining a continuous improvement mindset at the plant
~ Ability to work on your feet for the majority of the day in a production/plant environment subject to areas that are unheated and/or non-air conditioned
~ Ability to work with computer as necessary (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, AX)
~ This role has a base salary range of $100,000 to $130,000/year + 15% annual bonus
~ Short-term and long-term disability benefits
~11 paid holidays per year
~ Annual community volunteer paid day


Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
Group retirement savings program
We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

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