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Plant Manager

Oldcastle Apg

The Role

Overview

Manages production, safety, quality, and team performance at a manufacturing plant

Key Responsibilities

  • downtime workshops
  • performance reviews
  • quality program
  • production scheduling
  • kpi reporting
  • preventive maintenance

Tasks

-Leads monthly downtime workshops, utilizing OPS dashboards and tools and includes both production and maintenance leads -Leads weekly site performance reviews with both production and maintenance leads -Appraises employee performance and recommends appropriate actions to leadership -Directs implementation of a best-in-class quality program to ensure consistent, top-quality products with minimal junk -Attend and support monthly safety training -Ensures products meet and exceed company set specifications and that product remains within BOM cost commitments -Directs development of training programs to promote employee engagement -Leverages standardized skills matrices and customized job interviews by role to ensure consistency in hiring talent that aligns with the required skillset for each role on the site -Assists with preparation of annual production budget and capital project requests -Leverages best practices across sites, including sharing new best practices and learning from other sites -Holds self and employees accountable for creating and implementing best practices and doing what is right for the business -Ensures production plans and schedules are in place and team is executing to them -Ensures any reported hazards are immediately mitigated and resolved in a timely manner -Drives labor best practices, managing on-time starts and employee overtime through OPS tools and BI dashboards -Uses key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure progress, including P&L's, Daily Production Reports, BI dashboards, Vorne XL boards, and other OPS reports and tools -Reports site performance using KPIs and OPS dashboards in a monthly performance review with business leaders -Ensures products meet and exceed customer expectations -Ensures site leaders are leveraging shift huddle data to manage downtime and working with maintenance lead to manage PM schedules -Responsible for ensuring excellence through the 5 plant fundamentals of safety, housekeeping, preventive maintenance, productivity, and quality as outlined below -Responsible for ensuring BOMs are correct, and product is manufactured within BOM cost and quality commitments -Conducts daily shift huddles are being conducted and utilizing huddle boards -Set expectations with employees on good, consistent customer service & responsiveness -Ensures top quality products that meet on time delivery expectations

Requirements

  • microsoft office
  • mechanical
  • electrical
  • production equipment
  • leadership
  • union experience

What You Bring

-Spends at least 80% of time on floor, interacting with plant teams and leadership -Proficient use of computer software such as Microsoft Office Products, Internet, Email -Previous knowledge of production equipment is a desirable asset -Good Mechanical and Electrical skills -Experience navigating collective agreements within a unionized setting -Excellent leadership and team building skills

Benefits

-Health and wellness programs -Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs -Highly competitive base pay -Group retirement savings program

The Company

About Oldcastle Apg

-Its brands—Belgard, Echelon, Sakrete, MoistureShield and more—pave patios, build walls and finish pools. -Financial backing from CRH gives it scale: hundreds of plants, strategic acquisitions and steady investment. -Flagship projects range from bespoke residential patios to commercial plazas and large-scale masonry builds. -Specialisms span hardscapes, fencing/decking, packaged concrete mixes, masonry and pool finishes. -Its expansion appetite shows: recent buys include Lowe, Master Block and Calstone to deepen market reach. -Uniquely, its composite decking line can be submerged underwater—rare in the industry.

Sector Specialisms

Commercial

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Infrastructure

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