Plant Manager

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We’re more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We’re a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we’re leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.

The Plant Manager is the senior leader on site and is responsible for everything that goes on inside the fence-line and is the driver of the production process. We look to the Plant Manager to build a collaborative environment between operations, sales, engineering, accounting, and transportation. This dynamic leader will be pushing continuous improvement in workplace safety, production efficiency, product cost, and customer service.

Essential Job Functions

Ensure the plant employees and guests on site comply with safety and environmental practices – lead by example and build a safety first culture

Lead production scheduling to meet customer needs including timely delivery

Develop a keen focus on customer service and proactive communication across the team

Partner with the engineering team to ensure proper drawings and designs are being used during the manufacturing process

Purchase material/services to successfully operate the facility

Successfully hire, supervise, orient, train and retain operations/product staff

Promote and maintain a clean workplace that is “tour-ready” at all times

Ability to read drawings, plan production tasks from those drawings, and coach employees to produce product correctly

Ability to operate some of the standard tools on the plant floor such as overhead cranes, hand tools, batch plant, etc. While the Plant Manager will not be asked to operate these things continuously, having some of these skills will make him/her a better coach and troubleshooter

Be a leader and coach leadership. Motivate crews during morning huddles. Lead effective Mid-Day meetings. Coach Leads on how to set expectations on a whiteboard and have them followed. Lead inventory counts. Promote safety best practices in meetings with other Plant Managers

Perform any other duties as assigned by the General Manager as deemed appropriate and necessary by them

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in business, operations, engineering or equivalent experience

10+ years of experience working in a leadership role in an industrial manufacturing environment

Experience with precast/concrete or building materials is a plus

Proven track record of developing, leading and maintaining a continuous improvement mindset at the plant

Ability to work on your feet for the majority of the day in a production/plant environment subject to areas that are unheated and/or non-air conditioned

Ability to work with computer as necessary (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, AX)

Ability to lead and direct other individuals and work with other group leaders

What CRH Offers You

Highly competitive base pay

Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs

Group retirement savings program

Health and wellness programs

A culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of large international organization.

Oldcastle Infrastructure, a CRH Company, is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

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