Plant Manager

• Transition a successful business into a high-performing lean manufacturing organization
• Utilize Lean Manufacturing concepts, tools, and techniques to deliver quantifiable and sustainable improvements
• Align operational activities that synchronize processes and a balanced scorecard, which measures financial, operational, and employee engagement goals
• Identify opportunities that will impact operational goals of improving safety, quality, delivery, production efficiency, job cost, and employee engagement
• Manage a multidisciplinary team, including responsibility for recruiting, developing, coaching, and managing performance, and establishing departmental procedures and practices
• Identify improvement opportunities in support areas, including the supply chain, to create financial synergies and enhance our service delivery to the customer
• Contribute to the development of plant budgets and is accountable to budgetary expectations
• Builds and fosters positive and collaborative working relationships with internal and external clients and vendors, turning them into advocates and partners
• Establish and sustain a culture of continuous improvement to identify and implement improvements in work methods, procedures, and operations that increase efficiency, profitability, quality, and safety
• Responsible for the effective management of personnel directly involved in manufacturing operations. This includes alignment, leadership, talent, engagement, and retention with the objective of building and maintaining a high-performing organization
• Responsible for the full scope of execution and continual advancement in processes, procedures, equipment, and execution strategies with the plant
• Coordinate closely with the vice president of manufacturing to provide detailed strategic and tactical input on methods of project manufacturing support and execution
• Directly involved in production hours estimating and providing constructability and risk analysis on project pursuits
• Responsible for conducting and implementing all manufacturing processes, including hazard analysis, safety procedures, etc.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Science Management, Business Administration, or similar
• 10+ years of relevant manufacturing management experience
• Minimum 5 years of Lean Manufacturing experience
• Six Sigma Black Belt certification is beneficial
• P&L experience
• Strong Leadership competencies with high interpersonal skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Operates with a sense of urgency
• Strong lean manufacturing and change management skills
• Passionate about developing team members
• Adaptable and flexible to a changing environment
• A focus on accountability and results-oriented
• Desire for process excellence
• Strong financial and analytical skills
• Strategic and tactical
• able to translate strategy into plans and execution
• Demonstrated operational leadership
• hands-on management style
• effective decision-maker

Six Sigma Black Belt certification is beneficial

• Safety: Our unmatched culture of safety is our foremost core value
• Awards: RK Industries is highly recognized and accredited throughout the industry
• Benefits: RK Industries offers competitive benefits to support your growth and well-being
• Philanthropy: RK Industries invests in the community through the RK Foundation
• Development: Through RK University, we provide hands-on training and development opportunities that empower employees to advance their careers and grow within the company, to include leadership and technical learning opportunities, as well as our accredited apprentice program