Plant Manager: Lead -Impact Metal Fabrication Plant

Position: Plant Manager: Lead a High-Impact Metal Fabrication Plant

• Labor efficiency.
• Coordination across departments.
• Improve first-pass yield.

The Opportunity

Pen Manufacturing, part of Metal Solutions Holdings ("MSH"), is seeking an experienced Plant Manager/Director of Operations - Metal Fabrication to lead the operational organization at our Anaheim facility.

About Pen Manufacturing:

Pen is an AS9100-certified, technology-enabled metal manufacturing operation serving demanding customers across industrial, infrastructure, data center, aerospace & defense, space, and OEM markets.

The Plant Manager is the senior operational leader at the site and will have direct responsibility for:

• Production
• Supply Chain / Purchasing
• Quality Control
• Engineering
• Facilities & Maintenance

You will lead experienced managers across these functions and be accountable for getting the entire operational organization working together.

This is not simply a Production Manager position.

The Site Leader owns the overall P&L, customers, pricing, and commercial strategy. The Plant Manager owns operational execution — ensuring we engineer, purchase, manufacture, inspect, and deliver jobs for the labor, material, time, quality, and margin we expected.

What You Will Own

Gross Margin Execution & Job Reconciliation

This is a critical part of the role.

Every job has an estimate. We need to know whether we actually performed against it — and why.

You Will:

• Own the weekly job-reconciliation process.
• Review estimated vs. actual labor hours by job.
• Review estimated vs. actual material usage and costs.
• Identify jobs that beat or missed expected gross margin.
• Determine the root cause of margin misses.
• Identify recurring problems across Engineering, Purchasing, Production, Quality, or scheduling.
• Assign and drive corrective actions with the appropriate functional managers.
• Ensure lessons from completed jobs flow back into Engineering, Estimating, Purchasing, Production, and future bids.
• Provide the Site Leader with clear visibility into where gross margin is being won or lost.

We do not want to discover margin problems at the end of the month.

We want someone who can identify problems at the job level while there is still time to fix them.

Production

You will lead the Production organization and hold its leadership accountable for:

• Production scheduling and schedule attainment.
• Labor allocation.
• Machine and work-center utilization.
• Capacity planning.
• Throughput.
• Work-in-process management.
• Bottleneck identification and resolution.
• Overtime management.
• Labor efficiency.
• Coordination across departments.
• On-time delivery.

You Should Always Know:

What is late? What is at risk? Where is the bottleneck? Why? And what are we doing about it?

Supply Chain & Purchasing

You will oversee Supply Chain and ensure material supports both customer delivery and job profitability.

You Will Be Accountable For:

• Material availability.
• Purchasing performance.
• Supplier performance.
• Material cost and purchase-price variance.
• Lead times.
• Inventory discipline.
• Expediting when necessary.
• Developing stronger suppliers and alternatives.
• Ensuring purchasing decisions support quoted job economics.

Supply Chain should not operate independently from Production, Engineering, or job profitability.

Engineering

Engineering will report into the Plant Manager.

You will not be expected to personally engineer jobs. You will lead experienced technical managers and ensure Engineering supports successful execution.

You Will Be Accountable For:

• Engineering throughput and responsiveness.
• Effective handoff from estimating/sales into production.
• Manufacturability.
• Accurate and timely drawings, routings, BOMs, and production information.
• Engineering-change discipline.
• Resolving technical bottlenecks affecting production.
• Ensuring lessons from completed jobs improve future execution.

The Plant Manager…