Plant Manager

Job

Exempt

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-lineand and is the driver of the production and safety process. We look to the Plant Manager to build a collaborative team 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 is an onsite position located in Fayetteville, NC.

Ensure the plant employees and guests on site comply with safety and environmental practices – lead by example and build a safety first culture

Work with EHS, managers, and staff to continually have a safety‑first culture

Lead production to hit out‑put production, product quality, on‑time shipping, and scheduling to meet customer needs

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

Experience building, maintaining and adjusting Lean systems to drive insight and continuous improvement

Experience using systematic Lean frameworks (5S, Kaizen) and tools to improve processes and expand capacity (value stream mapping)

Experience with quality management systems to drive root cause analysis and corrections

Embrace teamwork across multiple departments to hit production output and increase financial goals

Ability to set financial goals, develop a planand execute the plan to exceed them

Purchase material/services to successfully operate the facility

Successfully hire, supervise, orient, train and retain operations/product staff

Promote and maintain a clean workplace that is “tour‑ready” at all times

Be able to have critical conversations with employees to help develop and coach them

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

Be a leader and coach leadership. Motivate crews during morning huddles. Lead effective Mid‑Day meetings. Coach Leads on how to set expectations on a whiteboard and have them followed. 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 preferred

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)

Ability to lead and direct other individuals and work with other group leaders

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

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