Truss Plant Manager

PARR is the total source for homebuilding supplies, solutions, and services. We focus on supplying building materials and solutions to professional home builders of all sizes including custom builders, large production builders, and multifamily builders. Our customers and community members know that they can rely on us for Legendary Service and quality products.

Job title: Truss Plant Manager

Salary: Starting at $103k to $126k a year, depending on experience Profit Sharing

Schedule: Monday - Friday 7am to 5pm

Location: Lacey, Washington

The Plant Manager must manage, direct, and implement sales, operation and production strategies, goals, and objectives to ensure the achievement of the goals of PARR's truss plant operations. This will include but not be limited to safety, materials handling and distribution, sales, customer relations, production scheduling, production, delivery, quality control, claims and preventive maintenance. They are responsible for meeting sales, margin, cost and profit objectives and for implementing initiatives to continuously improve manufacturing efficiencies.

This position directly reports to the Regional Truss Manager. They interact daily with employees and customers and regularly with internal personnel (e.g. Account Management Department, Sales, HR, and Logistics). They also interact regularly with vendor representatives and industry associates including PARR sales representatives and sales managers.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED equivalent required
• Prior experience as a manager in the truss industry preferred
• Prior supervisory/management experience required
• Ability to speak, write, and read English required
• Knowledge of management principles practices and protocols
• Knowledge of inventory procurement and contract negotiations
• Knowledge of budget management and cost control protocols
• Knowledge of Truss manufacturing equipment and computerized saws, manufacturing principles, practices and protocols
• Knowledge of home and commercial construction, remodeling and renovation principles, practices and protocols preferred
• Knowledge of the effects of "market conditions" upon the Truss component industry
• Strong interpersonal communication skills and experience dealing with employees and customers required
• Ability to aggressively pursue company's best interest when selling merchandise to customers
• Ability to prioritize work and manage time effectively
• Ability to concentrate and attend to details amidst a busy manufacturing environment
• Ability to deal effectively with a variety of personalities
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable to daily changing needs/demands of the facility
• Willingness to share responsibilities in order to meet deadlines
• Ability to effectively manage and motivate employees
• Ability to work unsupervised and a desire for high level of responsibility
• Must be tolerant of co-workers, knowing that honest mistakes will be made
• Must be flexible to different personality types and work habits, knowing that goals may be achieved in different ways

Duties and Responsibilities

• Demonstrate positive interactions with the public and positive interpersonal relations in dealing with fellow employees, supervisors, and other department employees, so that productivity and positive employee relations are maximized
• Support and contribute to effective safety and risk management efforts by adhering to established policies and procedures, maintaining a safe environment, promoting accident prevention, and identifying and reporting potential liabilities
• Maintain confidentiality and accuracy of all information related to company finances and records, particularly, cost of goods purchased and sold
• Create and maintain a safe working environment
• Achieve the truss plant's annual sales and profit projections
• Project a positive image to peers and subordinates, to customers, to industry associates, and to the public
• Prepare, monitor and control annual budget for the facility
• Continually evaluate and, as necessary, encourage change in the policies and procedures related to plant operations
• Supervise and direct the workforce at the plant
• Enforce all Company policies and work rules, and when appropriate take disciplinary action
• Establish and maintain a comfortable, clean and safe working environment for all employees
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with customers and vendors
• Identify and respond to the need for hiring personnel at your facility
• Identify and articulate performance expectations to employees
• Create and maintain a well-rounded staff through cross training, open communications and continuing education
• Maintain PARR guidelines and criteria for customer service
• Ensure cleanliness of your facility is maintained
• Ensure an appropriate level of inventory is maintained at the facility
• Review daily and monthly reports to identify and correct problems in a timely manner related to invoicing, inventory, payroll (hours of service), and sales transactions
• Conduct/monitor accident investigations
• Promptly report all accidents/incidents
• Promptly respond to customer complaints and concerns
• Continually update product knowledge and selling techniques
• Complete performance evaluations of employees assigned to your location
• Complete all monthly safety and fleet reports
• Effectively deal with occasional difficult people
• Effectively manage a wide variety of employees, who require varying degrees of supervision.
• Maintain a profitable plant
• Develop and implement local strategies to achieve consistent results in a manufacturing environment
• Interact positively while achieving the plurality of needs of PARR
• Maintain a safe working environment
• Understand and maintain standard KPIs
• Perform other related duties as assigned

This position splits time between an office using a personal computer and supervising a manufacturing facility. They work both inside and outside in all weather conditions.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work indoors in a normal office environment for an entire day.
• Ability to visit job sites in a variety of conditions.
• Must be able to work in a manufacturing environment at varying temperatures as needed.
• Must be able to routinely lift 25 lbs., occasionally lift up to 80 lbs.
• Ability to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time
• Ability to stoop, bend, walk, and effectively communicate at levels normal for someone performing work with the general public primarily in a retail sales environment

We know that without great people, we can't be a great company. Voted as one of the "Top Places to Work" by the Oregonian for the 3rd year in a row, we offer industry-leading benefits:

• Everyone starts earning 2 weeks of vacation per year on day 1, and gains an additional day every year worked up to 4 weeks off
• Employee paid sick days
• 7 holidays
• 2 medical plan options, one with a high deductible that offers an HSA and our standard plan with a very low $1,000 deductible
• Dental, Vision, EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Massage, Chiropractic and Acupuncture coverage
• FSA (Flexible Spending Account) and Childcare pretax spending programs
• HSA (Health Savings Account)
• Up to 50% match on the first 6% you contribute to your 401(k) after 1 year of employment and fully vested at the end of your 3rd year
• In addition to the 401(k) match, there a 3% profit share contribution to the 401(k), with Board approval
• Tuition reimbursement (up to $2,500/year)
• Annual profit sharing (every full time employee who worked the full year earned a minimum of $525 for the 2024 year)
• $1,000 referral bonus

PARR Promotes!

We have a transparent pay structure, and love to promote from within. Our current CEO started with the company as a driver and by being open to change and a self-starter he climbed the ranks to the role he has today. There are many members of our management team who started their careers in our entry-level positions. If you're willing to work hard, there's no reason you won't earn regular merit increases and promotions. There is A LOT of opportunity - PARR is growing fast!

We value our employees like family and are constantly working to provide a safe place to work for our employees. Most of our locations are not open past 5 and all our locations are closed on Sundays.

Our company mission is Legendary Service through Teamwork, and we take that seriously. When you join our team, you're joining a family owned company that's been in business for 90 years, with a well-established reputation as a leader within the building material supply industry in the United States.

Salary : $103,000 - $126,000