Plant Manager

Job Description

Our people are the life of this company. Together, we build life into the kitchen.

We are a nationwide team, designing and manufacturing the most comprehensive choice of kitchen cabinets in the U.S. Our people pride themselves on genuine collaboration, working to deliver a seamless, integrated, quality experience to anyone and everybody. Our shared purpose is to bring the kitchen to life — the place where people spend such a meaningful part of their personal and family lives, and the true heart of any home. This is why your career with our company can be so satisfying, rewarding and worthwhile.

The Plant Manager will manage, direct, and coordinate all aspects of a complete operations facility, including perimeter, or site through the direct and indirect reporting of the plant management team and administrative personnel. Through subordinate supervisors and managers, the Plant Manager ensures production objectives are met within cost and quality standards and in compliance with all company policies, processes, and procedures.

**This position is onsite at our Sayre, PA manufacturing facility**

PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage, train, provide performance feedback and assign duties of direct reports to ensure productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Establish and direct the plant operations to achieve plant objectives for safety, environmental, quality, cost, delivery, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure all plant reporting and meeting requirements are satisfied on time and complete as detailed in the Cabinetworks Group Operating System (COS) documentation.
• Ensure completion of periodic cross-functional audits to evaluate the application of the COS at various levels of the management team.
• Ensure operations are executed in compliance with established standard work instructions, training plans, layered process audit and controlled documentation processes.
• Manage cost target results to established standards.
• Participate in the capital / expense planning and realization process.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives by serving as the champion of improvement charters and lean events inclusive of internal, external, cross functional and cross plant efforts.
• Ensure compliance to government laws and regulations.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or related field; or 5 years manufacturing operations leadership role experience.
• Total Work Systems development and refinement experience.
• Fundamental knowledge and experience in leading Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen activities or Six Sigma processes.
• Knowledgeable of Quality Management System elements and application.
• Knowledge of health, safety, and environmental management system elements.
• Demonstrated successful leadership, including personnel and organization development.
• Proficient computer skills required including Microsoft Office Suite.
• Demonstrated successful ability to build positive partnerships and work collaboratively with cross-functional business teams.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of the organization.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• MBA.
• Experience managing through use of Toyota Production System, Danaher Business System, or similar Operating System
• Familiarity with the cabinet/countertop industry and product.
• Excellent project management and budgeting skills with a deadline orientation and focus.
• Six Sigma Black Belt or Green Belt Certification or comparable problem-solving certification.