Manufacturing Superintendent

Atlas Roofing Corporation•LaGrange, GA

24d•Onsite

About The Position

Atlas Roofing Corporation’s Roof and Wall Insulation division is seeking a Manufacturing Superintendent for its LaGrange, Georgia facility. The role provides overall leadership for production, workforce development, production scheduling support, and receiving operations, while partnering with the Quality Manager to strengthen process control, quality capability, and continuity of the plant’s quality systems. The Superintendent turns plant strategy into safe, reliable, efficient daily operations and develops leadership capability, technical knowledge, and succession readiness. The role leads through Production Supervisors and is accountable for systems, standards, performance, and employee development. The position directly supervises Production Supervisors, the Production Scheduler, and the Receiver, and provides indirect leadership for production employees across all shifts. The Superintendent may provide coverage for the Plant Manager when assigned and performs other duties as assigned. The role requires regular availability appropriate to a multi-shift manufacturing operation and occasional travel to other plants, corporate offices, customers, vendors, seminars, meetings, or training events. Work takes place in an industrial manufacturing environment. Duties may involve standing, walking, sitting, climbing stairs or ladders, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, using hands, communicating in industrial noise, entering confined spaces when properly authorized, working around chemicals under established controls, and lifting or moving up to 50 pounds. Applicable personal protective equipment must be worn. Reasonable accommodations may be made for qualified individuals with disabilities.

Requirements

Five or more years of progressive manufacturing experience, including meaningful leadership responsibility in a multi-shift operation.
Demonstrated experience leading supervisors or other frontline leaders and developing employee capability.
Strong leadership presence and ability to set expectations, coach constructively, address performance issues, and build trust across functions and shifts.
Ability to think strategically while maintaining disciplined follow-through on daily operating fundamentals.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including interpreting operating data, identifying trends, prioritizing risk, and verifying results.
Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating instructions, specifications, procedures, and technical documents, and to write clear reports and correspondence.
Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate with hourly employees, leaders, technical resources, customers, and corporate partners.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and applicable enterprise, timekeeping, production, scheduling, and reporting systems.
Ability to learn quickly, retain and transfer information, manage competing priorities, and adapt to changing business needs.
Valid driver license.
Ability to perform work in an industrial manufacturing environment, including the physical activities and conditions described in the posting; required personal protective equipment must be worn as applicable.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, business, or a related field; equivalent relevant manufacturing leadership experience may be considered.
Experience with quality systems, process control, training systems, continuous improvement, and data-based problem solving.
Knowledge of OSHA, environmental, and other manufacturing compliance requirements appropriate to the operation.

Responsibilities

Lead and strengthen a culture that integrates safety, environmental responsibility, quality, and operational discipline into decisions and activities.
Ensure operations comply with company requirements, procedures, permits, and applicable regulatory standards; address unsafe conditions and stop work when necessary.
Partner with EHS and plant leadership on safety initiatives, incident investigations, corrective actions, and learning across shifts.
Lead safe, reliable, and efficient production across all shifts and translate plant goals into clear priorities, expectations, and measurable commitments.
Monitor and improve safety, quality, throughput, waste, downtime, process capability, labor effectiveness, and schedule attainment.
Use data, structured problem solving, and root-cause analysis to address constraints, assign action ownership, and verify sustained results.
Drive continuous improvement in manufacturing processes, work systems, standard work, housekeeping, reliability, cost, and customer service.
Coordinate priorities and escalation across Production, Maintenance, Quality, EHS, Scheduling, Receiving, Shipping, and support functions.
Provide coverage for the Plant Manager when assigned.
Develop knowledge of quality-management and process-control systems and partner with the Quality Manager to reinforce specifications, controls, inspections, documentation, and escalation procedures.
Support responses to process deviations, nonconforming products, customer concerns, and recurring quality losses, including root-cause analysis and corrective-action follow-up.
Coordinate with the Quality Manager and Corporate Technical on trials, new products, process and raw-material changes, formulations, specifications, and quality improvements.
Reinforce production accountability for meeting specifications, completing checks, and promptly escalating quality or process concerns.
Help develop QC personnel and production leaders through capability building, cross-training, qualification, and knowledge retention.
Communicate significant quality, technical, or process risks to the Quality Manager, Plant Manager, and other appropriate stakeholders.
Lead, coach, and develop Production Supervisors, the Production Scheduler, and the Receiver; establish expectations, give feedback, and hold leaders accountable.
Develop supervisor capability in communication, employee relations, performance management, problem solving, decision-making, shift ownership, and consistent application of policies and standards.
Partner with Human Resources and plant leadership on workforce planning, selection, onboarding, performance management, recognition, corrective action, and other employee matters.
Maintain succession plans for critical leadership and technical roles, identify high-potential employees, and provide development opportunities.
Promote a respectful, inclusive, accountable work environment and conduct regular one-on-ones, leadership reviews, and talent discussions.
Own the plant training and qualification strategy for production roles, including onboarding, cross-training, refresher training, advancement pathways, and leader development.
Define and maintain role-specific training requirements, qualification standards, assessments, trainers, records, and requalification expectations.
Build and maintain training matrices showing coverage, proficiency, vulnerabilities, and priorities by role and shift.
Ensure procedures, job aids, troubleshooting knowledge, and critical process knowledge are documented, controlled, taught, and transferred ahead of staffing changes.
Partner with subject-matter experts to turn experience-based knowledge into repeatable standards and learning materials.
Assess training effectiveness through observation, demonstrated competency, performance, and follow-up coaching.
Support the Production Scheduler and coordinate the production schedule with operating capability; maintain knowledge to serve as designated backup when the scheduler is unavailable.
Partner with the Production Scheduler to assess capacity, constraints, changeovers, staffing, and schedule risks, and communicate issues and tradeoffs to the Plant Manager and affected functions.
Oversee the Receiver’s safety, accuracy, documentation, communication, housekeeping, and compliance with receiving procedures.
Coordinate receiving priorities and issue resolution with Purchasing, Quality, Production, Accounting, and other functions without assuming raw-material purchasing or inventory-control ownership.
Maintain regular, consistent attendance and availability appropriate to a multi-shift manufacturing operation.
Occasionally travel to other plants, corporate offices, customers, vendors, seminars, meetings, or training events.
Perform other related duties as assigned by the Plant Manager.