Multi-Family Truss Design Manager

Summary : We are a growing floors and roofs truss company in the manufacturing industry who provides high quality trusses, lumber, and box springs, and provides responsive and exceptional customer service. Skilled and educated, the Truss Design Manager works full-time hours in the office. This position collaborates with sales, dispatch, estimating and production teams to ensure designs are successful and properly delivered to customers.

This position reports to the President / CEO.

Leadership Skills :

• To promote and maintain the family-owned business culture and ambiance at Associated Truss and Lumber Co.

Job Duties and Responsibilities :

• Work with the Sales Manager to assure that design and estimating are produced to meet the sales needs of the company. Field sales and customer calls concerning the quality and compatibility of trusses in the field. Handle engineering issues.
• Communicates with the Truss Production Manager to make sure that designs are production friendly and produced in a timely manner to allow production to efficiently manufacture trusses to meet customers schedule.
• Communicates with Shipping / Dispatch Dept. to see that trusses are designed to maximize truck loads and minimize override permits. Maintain excellent quality to minimize returns and handling damage.
• Collaborate and communicate with design and production software provider to ensure efficiency in all departments.
• Train and coach designers to efficiently produce truss designs, optimizing both material and labor savings. Maintain design production both internal and external to meet sales and production requirements.
• Oversees and communicates information to Design Department. Currently manages five (5) internal Designers and an external design company; Design Quality Analyst / IT Administrator, and two (2) Administrators to process design to production.
• Manages workflow and communication in the department. Monitors performance oversee daily work commitments and projects and ensure compliance to standards for quality and quantity of work produced.
• Other job duties as assigned.

Job Type : Full-time

Leadership Skills and Qualifications :

• Experience managing truss design projects preferred.
• Manage and provide conflict resolution.
• Leadership skills that meets the company culture to deliver clear and consistent feedback to their team members.
• Deadline management.
• Ability to articulately write reports and correspondences.
• Mathematical skills in all units of measurements using whole numbers, common fractions, percentages and ratios.
• MiTek experience is required.
• Superior communication skills to deliver messages effectively and efficiently.
• To ensure accurate and efficient designs with high level of consideration given to customers.
• Evaluates individual design deliveries and overall team performance.
• Collaborates with other teams to ensure success with customers’ truss design projects.

Education / Experience :

• High school diploma or GED.
• Four-year degree at an accredited university preferred.

At least five years of truss design experience and two years of design management experience; or seven years of combined education and experience.

• At least five years of truss design experience and two years of design management experience; or seven years of combined education and experience.

Physical Demands :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Salary : $70,000 - $100,000