Director, Manufacturing Operations FP&A

When you work at Trex, you’re helping to grow and enhance a true original. You join a company that boldly launched an entire industry… and still leads the way.

As Director, Manufacturing Operations FP&A, you will lead the financial planning, analysis, and decision-support for operational excellence, procurement, and logistics. This role establishes the operating-finance framework, translates operational drivers into financial outcomes, and provides forward-looking insight to improve cost competitiveness, capacity utilization, service, working capital, and capital allocation. The Director serves as a strategic partner to plant, supply chain, procurement, logistics, engineering, finance, and corporate leadership;

owns the integrity and consistency of operational forecasts and KPIs; and drives accountability for performance and corrective actions across the network.

• Put safety first – Always!
• Lead and foster our “people first” culture.
• Forecasting & Planning
  • Support monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting for manufacturing, procurement, and logistics, including volume, material costs, inbound and outbound freight, warehousing, and distribution costs.
  • Establish and govern driver-based models that project operational and financial performance under multiple demand, production, sourcing, commodity, freight, and capacity scenarios.
  • Direct the cross-functional planning process with operations, engineering, procurement, logistics, and supply chain leaders to validate assumptions, reconcile operational plans, and align forecast inputs.
  • Own the annual operating plan and long-range financial planning processes for the manufacturing network, including productivity roadmaps, capacity requirements, sourcing strategies, logistics costs, and capital needs.
  • Prepare bridge analyses that clearly explain financial forecast-to-forecast and forecast-to-plan variances.
  • Develop executive-level scenarios and recommendations that quantify trade-offs among cost, capacity, inventory, customer service, sourcing risk, and capital deployment.
  • Define planning standards, calendars, assumptions, and review routines to improve forecast accuracy and accountability across functions and locations.
• Analyze actual manufacturing results including productivity, material usage, downtime, labor efficiency, machine utilization, and OEE.
• Deliver monthly financial KPI reporting packages with clear commentary and recommendations.
• Perform variance analysis on production costs, inventory, and plant performance.
• Investigate root causes of unfavorable trends and partner on corrective actions.
• Monitor and analyze inventory accuracy, production variances, waste, and yield.
• Evaluate cost impacts of engineering changes, process improvements, and capital projects.
• Procurement & Logistics FP&A
  • Lead financial planning and performance analysis for direct and indirect procurement, inbound and outbound logistics, warehousing, distribution, and third-party service providers.
  • Partner with procurement to evaluate supplier negotiations, sourcing events, make-versus-buy decisions, contract economics, commodity exposure, purchase price variance, and total cost of ownership.
  • Partner with logistics and operations to analyze freight rates, mode and carrier mix, fuel and accessorial charges, network design, warehouse productivity, inventory positioning, detention, demurrage, and service-level trade-offs.
  • Build savings and productivity governance that validates baselines, timing, one-time costs, risk adjustments, and realized P&L and cash-flow benefits.
  • Provide financial support for supplier and carrier scorecards, procurement pipelines, logistics bids, and network-optimization initiatives.
  • Assess working-capital implications of sourcing and logistics…