Foundry Plant Manager

Samuel, Son & Co.•Riverside, CA

3d•$135,000 - $162,000•Onsite

About The Position

This position is for an existing vacancy within Samuel, a company with over 170 years of success in the metals industry. Samuel believes in a culture of equality, respect, and integrity, and is committed to building an environment that is open and welcoming for everyone. Sierra Aluminum, a part of Samuel, is a vertically integrated aluminum extrusion mill providing standard, custom, and OEM aluminum products. They offer in-house value-added services such as anodizing, painting, thermal improvement, fabrication, and specialized packaging to ensure consistent quality products delivered on time. The Foundry Plant Manager will ensure a culture that prioritizes employee safety and welfare, leverage the ERP system for production and inventory management, plan and execute capital and continuous improvement projects, develop the plant leadership pipeline, own the plant P&L, and establish and maintain a high-quality workforce. The role also involves setting high standards for ethics and compliance, executing quality and process excellence plans, leading implementation of tactics for improvement in delivery, yield, scrap reduction, and productivity, monitoring KPIs, providing hands-on floor presence, leading teams to achieve performance goals, driving employee training programs, working with managers across functional lines, promoting engaged workforce behaviors, and deploying team-based problem-solving groups. Other duties as required.

Requirements

Bachelors of Science degree from an accredited institution in Engineering, Business or related field or 5-10 years equivalent experience on the role.
Leadership — Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Disciplined Execution — Job requires holding the Operations team accountable through daily execution to the plan. When required, he/she will need to be able to dive into details to ensure operational success.
Strong financial literacy.
Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
Production and Processing — Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
Customer Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer service. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
5 years minimum experience in plant operational management and/or an equivalent large segment of a business.

Responsibilities

Ensure a culture is in place that puts the safety and welfare of our employees ahead of all other goals.
Leverage the ERP system (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, or equivalent) to drive production scheduling, inventory accuracy, work order execution, BOM and routing integrity, and cost reporting; ensure transactions are completed accurately and on time at the shop floor level.
Plan and execute capital and continuous improvement projects from concept through commissioning defining scope, schedule, budget, and resources, managing contractors and cross-functional stakeholders, and reporting progress against milestones and deliverables.
Develop the plant leadership pipeline by coaching supervisors and leads, delivering structured performance feedback, building individual development plans, and driving cross-training and succession planning across the operation.
Owns plant P&L, including building and managing the annual operating budget, forecasting, standard cost and variance analysis, and capital planning, driving margin improvement against committed targets.
Establish and maintain a high-quality work force through recruiting, hiring, training, evaluating, and ensuring accountability to enable the Samuel culture.
Sets a high standard for ethics and compliance, ensuring business processes adhere to our business conduct policies and procedures.
Executes plans for quality and process excellence that ensures consistent quality assurance and process excellence procedures, controls, and feedback.
Lead the implementation of tactics to achieve improvement in on-time delivery, yield improvement, scrap reduction, and productivity.
Monitor KPIs to ensure that safety, quality, productivity, and costs metrics are being met, put action plan in place when metrics are not met.
Hands On and floor presence to support front line supervisors and leads.
Leads team to achieve monthly, quarterly, and annual performance goals.
Drive and support employees training programs and job certifications across production teams.
Works with managers across all functional lines to accomplish organizational objectives.
Exhibits and promotes behaviors on the plant floor that leads to an engaged work force.
Deploy and lead team-based problem-solving groups using modern methods (DMAIC, Value Stream Mapping, Brainstorming, etc.) to eliminate productivity and quality issues.
Ensure that all employees know and adhere to the Sierra Aluminum policy and requirements.
Other duties as required.