Production Manager - Truss Manufacturing

Position Purpose: The Production Manager is responsible for the vision, strategy and leadership which drives the manufacturing process to achieve and maintain high standards of quality, customer satisfaction, delivery, and manufacturing capabilities. Ensures performance and quality objectives are met while minimizing expenses. A strong belief in the mission and goals of the company are necessary in this position.

Core Value Expectations:

• Actively pursue high character, high trust, and high performance personally, corporately, and in all aspects of the position
• Provide distinctive quality and unparalleled customer service both internally and externally
• Demonstrate and promote integrity, respect, and teamwork
• Invite others to help you grow through living authentically with nothing to prove, lose or hide
• Evidence humility by actively receiving teaching and mentoring

Primary Role Expectations:

• Advocate of the company mission, purpose, and core values in all activities and duties.
• Proactively solve problems and communicate with leadership.
• Develop a strategic plan to support growth with company initiatives and personal goals.
• Lead and manage all aspects of the Production include, but are not limited to:
• Oversees all areas of the plant to ensure and maintain high standards of quality, safety and service
• Regularly inspect daily opening and closing procedures, project completion, and plant and yard appearance
• Ability to lead two shift supervisors, production, and maintenance employees
• Sets the overall direction for the plant through long- and short-term goal planning
• Generate daily production reports to monitor efficiencies and promote continuous improvement
• Identifies and implements training and development programs for all production employees
• Monitors employee performance and counsel’s employees on improvement opportunities to ensure standards are met
• Oversee and recommend practices for recruitment, retention, evaluation, and termination of shop employees, including hiring, vacations, wage increases, training, cross-training, and development of new and existing employees
• Know and develop relationships with individual employees
• Ensures that production and delivery schedules are met and are optimizing lead times
• Management, Designers, and Dispatchers to identify areas of improvement
• Monitors cost of production and ensures that those costs are maintained
• Ensures inventory is properly accounted for and accurate
• Responsible for properly delegating and overseeing all aspects of inventory according to policies and procedures
• Responsible for product integrity and the coordinating of troubleshooting in the field as needed
• Other duties as assigned

• Strong hands-on operational business acumen, effective people management skills, and the ability to consider multiple options before making decisions.
• 5 years of applicable, industry, leadership and business development experience
• Knowledge of construction industry standards, building codes, equipment, methods, and contracts
• Experience with MiTek, MVP, or similar programs
• Experience and proven ability to implement effective systems, inventory management, processes, and metrics
• Strong interpersonal communication skills to work effectively with diverse individuals from executives to floor employees
• Entrepreneurial thinker, visionary with strategic planning skills
• Knowledge in lean manufacturing
• Strong language, mathematical, and reasoning skills
• Proficient with Office Productivity Tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Valid driver's license to operate personal and company vehicle

The requirements listed in this job description are representative of the essential duties, responsibilities, knowledge, skills and/or abilities as well as the environmental and physical demands an individual must meet to successfully perform this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.