Plant Manager

Job Summary

The Production Site Leader is responsible for overseeing all aspects of production at a fast-paced manufacturing site. This includes establishing and maintaining business objectives, ensuring compliance with safety and environmental regulations, and developing and leading a competent and engaged team.

Responsibilities

• Ensure excellence through the 5 plant fundamentals of safety, housekeeping, preventive maintenance, productivity, and quality.
• Provide good, consistent customer service and responsiveness.
• Plan and produce required product on a daily basis.
• Ensure the business meets expected financial returns, company, and site goals.
• Drive a site culture focused on excellence across all functions and personnel roles.
• Leverage best practices across sites, including sharing new best practices and learning from other sites.
• Ensure BOMs are correct, and product is manufactured within BOM cost and quality commitments.
• Spends at least 80% of time on floor, interacting with plant teams and leadership.
• Ensure that internal control guidelines are followed by site.
• Assist with preparation of annual production budget and capital project requests.
• Use key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure progress, including P&L's, Daily Production Reports, BI dashboards, Vorne XL boards, and other OPS reports and tools.
• Ensure all OPS initiatives are implemented at site.
• Holds self and employees accountable for creating and implementing best practices and doing what is right for the business.
• Directs and monitors the work of direct reports in accordance with business plans, site and individual goals.
• Appraise employee performance and recommend appropriate actions to leadership.
• Directs development of training programs to promote employee engagement.
• Leverage standardized skills matrices and customized job interviews by role to ensure consistency in hiring talent that aligns with the required skillset for each role on the site.
• Set expectations with employees on good, consistent customer service & responsiveness.
• Ensure top quality products that meet on time delivery expectations.
• Responsible for developing his or her technical knowledge by learning from employees.

Safety

• Take leadership role in all investigations involving first aid or greater injury severity and property damage incidents considered greater than "minor".
• Ensure any reported hazards are immediately mitigated and resolved in a timely manner.
• Attend and support monthly safety training.

Productivity

• Ensure production plans and schedules are in place and team is executing to them.
• Drive labor best practices, managing on-time starts and employee overtime through OPS tools and BI dashboards.
• Conduct daily shift huddles are being conducted and utilizing huddle boards.
• Ensure site leaders are leveraging shift huddle data to manage downtime and working with maintenance lead to manage PM schedules.
• Leads weekly site performance reviews with both production and maintenance leads.
• Leads monthly downtime workshops, utilizing OPS dashboards and tools and includes both production and maintenance leads.
• Reports site performance using KPIs and OPS dashboards in a monthly performance review with business leaders.

Quality

• Directs implementation of a best-in-class quality program to ensure consistent, top-quality products with minimal junk.
• Ensure products meet and exceed customer expectations.
• Ensure products meet and exceed company set specifications and that product remains within BOM cost commitments.

Position Knowledge

• Previous knowledge of production equipment is a desirable asset.
• Basic knowledge of wet cast/dry cast and precast concrete production processes.
• Good Mechanical and Electrical skills.
• Excellent leadership and team building skills.
• Proficient use of basic computer software such as Microsoft Office Products, Internet, Email.

What CRH Offers You

• Highly competitive base pay.
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs.
• Group retirement savings program.
• Health and wellness programs.
• A diverse and inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion.