What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Manager position at JC Pallet?
JC Pallet is looking for a Plant Manager for the Bladenboro, NC manufacturing facility. The successful candidate should have 4 to 7 years managerial experience in a manufacturing operation. The Plant Manager will be responsible for Safety, Quality, Productivity, Cost, Delivery, and P&L for the facility. This position reports directly to the President of JC Pallet.
Key Responsibilities:
- Directs, leads, and engages employee owners to relentlessly improve performance in our safety, quality, productivity, customer delivery, and costs. The focus is to get our processes right so the end results will come with time.
- Demonstrates, expects, and models the principles of the Columbia Way including: continuous improvement, getting our boots on to go and see, respect for each other, teamwork/engagement, problem solving, self-initiative in learning, and discipline in our execution and our foundational values of customer service, integrity, family, and sharing the success.
- Drives equipment and process reliability through TPM, PdM, and basic equipment care practices.
- Responsible for initiating and managing yearly budget requirements
- Responsible for initiating and managing capital improvements.
- Teaches and coaches employees in standard work, “waste" reduction, and use of lean tools.
- Champion of daily management system walks, data gathering, and problem solving at all levels.
- Leads and drives problem-solving...both "seeing" issues and using a methodical approach to attacking problems. Involving the whole team to help us improve processes through aggressive problem solving.
Customers Served:
All external customers, Employee owners, External vendors, Personnel at other CFP locations, Suppliers, our community in which we live and work.
Qualifications:
Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
- Willing to learn and be coached • Familiarity with the entire process of pallet manufacturing.
- Good understanding of basic accounting principles.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks. Some travel required.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively with employees at all levels
- Ability to delegate.
- Ability to carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
- Ability to interview, hire, and train employees; plan, assign, and direct work; appraise performance; reward and discipline employees; address complaints and resolve problems.
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
- Basic computer literacy - word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail.
Education/licensure:
Bachelor's degree
Experience:
Four to seven years of experience in wood products or a related field. Previous supervisory experience or Engineering experience and being Bi-lingual (Spanish) is a plus.
Work Environment:
This position performs tasks in the production area, offices, and outside areas, therefore, will be exposed to heat, cold, noise, dust, machinery, pulleys, and gears.
Performance Standards:
- Quality: Responsible for promoting and maintaining quality products and for ensuring that quality is taught to all employees
- Responsibility for plant process and outcomes: Full responsibility for plant safety, quality, productivity, service, and costs.
- Confidential Data: Access to confidential employee records, budgets, products and processes. The release of much of this information could be detrimental to the Company.
Key Competencies:
- Hungry: desires continuous improvement as a way of working and being
- Problem Solver: uses 5 whys & 8 step problem solving method to drive learning and improvement
- Team Player: Understands need for strong team dynamics and pulls team together to get things done
- Humble: Willing to Lean, be coachable and has a willingness to be curious
- Organized: can multi-task and manage multiple projects
- Respect for Team Members - emotionally intelligent, ability to listen and work with diversity in/of people
- Strong work ethic
- Good decision making skills
- Willing to “go and see” for problem solving, learning, and improvement (not lead from an office-go to the gemba)
- Manage within the tension of conflicting goals (i.e. able to prioritize)
- Effective communicator: able to effectively present information to individuals, small groups, and large groups
- Purpose Driven for the plant and CFP overall
- Bought into LEAN principles as the way of doing business: safety focus, waste reduction, champions of standard work, pull systems, learning & performance thru problem solving, customer focus
- Understands internal and external customer needs
- Constructive conflict
**This position is not remote and requires a full-time presence at the Bladenboro, NC facility. Relocation assistance provided.
Send resume and inquires to Jamie Ward at jward@cfpwood.com