Plant Manager

True House NC is seeking an experienced Plant Manager to lead our highly automated wall panel manufacturing operation in Sanford, North Carolina. Our state-of-the-art facility combines advanced automation, Revit-based digital design, data, and offsite manufacturing to help high-volume homebuilders build faster, improve quality, reduce waste, and address skilled labor challenges.

This leader will own overall plant performance across safety, people, quality, production, cost, and continuous improvement, while developing a high-performing team and maximizing the capabilities of our technology and automated equipment. This is an exciting opportunity for a data-driven, hands-on manufacturing leader who wants to improve an operation, drive results, and help shape the future of offsite construction.

• Lead overall plant performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and people
• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing production leadership team
• Drive production planning, scheduling, capacity, workflow, and on-time delivery
• Maximize the capabilities and utilization of our advanced automated manufacturing equipment
• Use production data and KPIs to improve throughput, labor efficiency, material utilization, quality, yield, scrap, and downtime
• Identify bottlenecks and implement process improvements that increase efficiency and capacity
• Oversee quality, maintenance, equipment reliability, inventory, and workforce planning
• Manage plant expenses and performance against budget and operating goals
• Identify opportunities for capital investment, technology, and process improvement
• Partner across design, engineering, operations, delivery, and field teams to improve the entire value stream
• Build a strong culture of safety, ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

We’re looking for an accomplished manufacturing leader—not necessarily someone who has spent their entire career in wall panel manufacturing.

• 5+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience, including responsibility for production teams and operational performance
• Proven success leading and developing production supervisors and frontline teams
• Strong knowledge of production planning, scheduling, capacity, labor, materials, quality, inventory, and maintenance
• Experience in an automated or technology-enabled manufacturing environment
• Proven ability to use data, KPIs, and financial information to drive operational improvement
• Track record of improving productivity, throughput, quality, labor efficiency, yield, scrap, downtime, and/or on-time delivery
• Experience managing budgets, operating expenses, and cost controls
• Strong safety leadership and understanding of manufacturing compliance
• Demonstrated success with continuous improvement and process improvement
• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and people-leadership skills
• A willingness to be a visible, hands-on leader on the manufacturing floor
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related field preferred. Equivalent progressive manufacturing leadership experience will also be considered.
• Experience with wall panels, trusses, structural components, building products, engineered wood, offsite/prefabricated construction, residential construction, or other highly automated manufacturing environments is a plus, but not required.

At True House, we believe there is a better way to build.

We bring together design, engineering, technology, manufacturing, and construction expertise to help homebuilders reduce waste, improve quality, increase speed, and control costs.

Our Sanford operation supports high-volume single-family, multifamily, and build-to-rent construction in…