Plant Manager - Construction Materials Manufacturing

Do You Want To:

• Feel supported by leadership and administration?
• Take pride seeing your work in the community?
• Be part of a collaborative floor where everyone knows each other?

Plant Manager

Pay Range: $90,000 - $130,000, DOE + Benefits + Performance Bonus
Location: Pueblo, CO
Position Type: Direct Hire

Why consider this Plant Manager position?

• You're not on an island here – leadership has your back and provides strong support (HR, Finance, Safety, Legal, Payroll, etc).
• Support of a larger corporation with a small family-owned plant feel.
• Collaborative environment where retention is a top priority.
• Long-tenured leadership demonstrates stability – 40 & 14 years!
• Culture rooted in quality so you can feel proud of your work.
• Opportunity to make a real impact and improve an entire operation.
• Robust Benefits package to make you feel valued.

How you'll spend your time as a Plant Manager:

• Plan, organize, and direct day-to-day manufacturing activities to hit production targets safely and efficiently based on production schedules and customer demands.
• Recruit, train, coach, and hold departmental supervisors and shift workers accountable.
• Assure cross training of staff.
• Foster a safety-first culture and ensure 100% compliance with OSHA, environmental, and local regulatory standards.
• Conduct safety meetings with employees to educate on a variety of topics and encourage safe practices.
• Monitor and maintain quality standards.
• Manage the site operating budget, review capital expenditures, and control labor and material costs.
• Apply Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma methodologies to minimize equipment downtime and reduce process waste.
• Partner with the maintenance team to manage equipment reliability and safety
• Maintain a process that ensures raw material inventory levels are efficient to keep production flowing properly.
• Monitor and react to sales trends to assure proper finished goods inventory levels meet customer needs

Skills & experience we'd like you to have as a Plant Manager:

• 2+ years of operational leadership experience in an industrial manufacturing environment.
• Strong working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or 5S principles.
• Proficient with understanding and building Excel worksheets
• Proven ability to manage, resolve conflicts, and build trusting relationships with a diverse workforce. Must lead by example.
• Excellent verbal and written skills to report key business metrics to corporate executives.
• Hands on leader who is willing to jump in and get your hands dirty.
• Construction materials manufacturing experience preferred.
• Spanish helpful, but not mandatory.

Sound interesting?

We want to talk to you! Apply for this Plant Manager position on this site OR call/text us directly with questions at 970-225-9292.

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