Plant Manager
Company: Cornerstone Building Brands
Location: Dallas
Posted on: May 16, 2022
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Job Description:
COMPANY PROFILE
Cornerstone Building Brands is the largest manufacturer of exterior
building products in North America. Headquartered in Cary, North
Carolina, the organization serves residential and commercial
customers across new construction and repair and remodel market.
The plant located in Dallas, TX, is part of the US Windows Group,
and specifically makes windows for residential applications.
PURPOSE/GOALS
The Plant Manager is responsible for providing leadership,
direction, and resource stewardship for a high-volume manufacturing
site located in Dallas, TX. This role is accountable for driving
timely and impactful improvements to the operating environment and
for delivering performance at or above expectations for service,
cost, safety, and quality. He/She will lead the execution of
cross-functional strategies and plans that ensure we execute the
company's manufacturing excellence roadmap. The goals of this role
are to manage structured change combine long-term thinking with
near term actions and decisions.
Successful candidates demonstrate their commitment to their team by
taking direct responsibility for the safety of the people who work
in your business, build trust and value the experience of the team
around them and look to develop the people, sets high expectations
for self and others, is a change agent and an effective
communicator, is comfortable frequently interacting with senior
leaders, and shows personal resilience. This position reports to
the Director of Operations.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Foster a culture, including ways of working and behaviors, that is
congruent with our mission, values, and success model.
Invest a substantial amount of time reinforcing our manufacturing
excellence roadmap; holding his/herself and others accountable for
performance and leadership commitments.
Identify and implement ways of working that make lean thinking and
employee engagement a way of life in the plant. Focus will be on
the process, not the individual. When things go wrong, ask why and
seek to find and address the root cause of problems.
Take responsibility for the safety and security of the people who
work in our business, the products we supply to customers, and the
company's physical assets; identify, assess, and address any
immediate safety and security issues.
Drive simplification efforts within the site, particularly those
manufacturing activities "draining" the operations cost
structure.
Use qualitative and quantitative approaches to forecasting labor
demand and mix. Answer how many employees will we need and at what
skill level?
Invest significant effort on talent offense and aligning training
and development of teams to mindsets and skillsets important to the
future of our business. Ensure everyone is working against the
right priorities, participating, and putting their skills and
experience to good use.
Take an active role in the community, raise awareness about
opportunities the manufacturing industry can offer, nurture future
manufacturing talent and grow their network and the company's
reputation, and give back.
Set an unwavering expectation that relationships between
supervisors, peers, and employees are respectful and inclusive.
Maintain environments that influence how we feel physically and
mentally at work and reflect attention to detail not only in the
quality of our output, but in our daily productive routines.
Create optimized schedules that balance production efficiency,
deliver supply, and employee well-being by selectively and
strategically using OT.
Help drive all TQM activities within the sites.
Manage and ensure successful new product/piloting.
Develop site strategies for COGS reduction while managing growth
and/or expansion.
Help manage the effort for all new equipment, assist in
establishing a project team, clearly establishing a
Commissioning/Qualification/Verification (CQV) process
approach.
Reduce costs of goods measured as savings year-to-year including
direct labor and overhead.
Ensure compliance with quality assurance measured in our QA Index
and Right First Time.
Develop and train leadership and technical groups.
Provides tactical direction as needed for all operations
groups.
Performs other duties as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor's degree required, preferably in engineering or business,
or in place of a degree, a minimum of 15 years of significant,
relevant professional experience.
Master's degree preferred.
Minimum of 10 years previous experience in manufacturing, including
packaging, process engineering, warehousing, and assembly.
Minimum of 5 years in people management role.
Proven track record of application of lean tools, processes, and
systems to deliver sustained continuous improvement preferred.
Experienced leading teams through compliant execution of formally
defined management systems preferred.
Experience participating on cross-functional teams and driving
decision-making.
Experience overseeing operational and financial metrics.
Possesses strong knowledge of manufacturing supply chain functions,
including planning, logistics, quality, materials management, and
inventory control.
Requires minimal travel (10%).
All Microsoft Office products; AutoCAD and statistical packages
desired.
Core Competencies
Excellent leadership skills with an understanding of how best to
utilize and deploy talent.
Demonstrated influencing, relationship building, and effective
facilitation and change management skills.
Strong business acumen, commercial awareness, and strategic
thinking skills.
Demonstrated ability to successfully develop and execute an
operations strategy.
Must model the Company's core values and leadership
behaviors.
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