Plant Leader

Original Composites and Fibers•Amarillo, TX

14h•Onsite

About The Position

Original Composites & Fiberglass is seeking an accomplished Plant Leader to provide overall leadership for the Amarillo manufacturing facility. Reporting to the Americas Operations Director, this role owns site performance and the plant MGL and establishes the strategies, standards, operating practices, and organizational capability required to achieve best-in-class performance. The successful candidate will be a visible, hands-on leader who creates an injury-free workplace, advances operational excellence, serves customers, develops talent, and delivers strong operational and financial performance. This leader will collaborates across the organization and represents the company in the Amarillo community.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required, preferably in engineering, business, or a related field
At least five years of experience in a plant operations leadership role
Manufacturing leadership experience with responsibility for safety, operations, people, and performance delivery
Experience leading or participating in cross-functional work outside of manufacturing
Demonstrated success hiring, developing, and promoting talent
Strong business and financial acumen
Effective verbal and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

Master's degree preferred
Engineering or technical background preferred
Leadership experience in a large, complex, continuous-process or comparable industrial manufacturing environment
Experience advancing operational excellence, reliability, and loss elimination
Experience leading organizational or operational transformation and developing capital strategies
Experience building constructive employee relations and strong community partnerships

Responsibilities

Create and sustain a safe and secure work environment for employees, contractors, and visitors.
Lead from a position of care for people and reinforce safe behaviors, sound choices, and accountability.
Allocate the resources, investments, systems, programs, and leadership attention required to achieve zero injuries.
Use clear performance measures to drive improvement, recognize safe behavior and achievements, and ensure accountability.
Operate with zero environmental non-conformities and continuously improve the plant’s environmental footprint.
Advance operational excellence through disciplined operating systems that target zero injuries, zero defects, and zero losses.
Build the standards, routines, ownership, and follow-through required to improve reliability, eliminate losses, and sustain manufacturing performance.
Create clear line-of-sight between plant priorities, daily actions, performance measures, and sustainable improvement.
Continuously build insight into the business, markets, customers, and strategy.
Create an environment where employees are engaged, empowered, and focused on serving customers.
Develop customer relationships and understand what is required for the company’s products to be recognized for high quality and value.
Lead with a clear view of where the organization needs to be over the next one to three years and translate that direction into practical priorities.
Communicate strategy, objectives, and expected results through effective two-way communication and achieve outcomes through the team.
Set clear, measurable performance expectations aligned with business goals and proactively manage operating metrics.
Lead the annual operating plan and capital budget and initiate timely capital requests to maintain or enhance plant performance.
Align resources to business strategy and lead strategic transformation while protecting safe, stable operations.
Own the plant MGL and make sound operating, resource, and investment decisions that improve business performance.
Balance safety, quality, service, cost, people, reliability, and long-term capability when setting priorities.
Use business and financial acumen, data, and structured problem solving to create customer and enterprise value.
Build a positive, creative, diverse, and collaborative workplace where employees own the success of the business.
Select and train employees, provide the right tools, processes, and systems, and empower people to deliver against clear expectations.
Monitor labor activity and maintain compliance with company policies and applicable governmental requirements.
Establish the facility as an employer of choice and maintain effective relationships with community and governmental stakeholders.
Create an environment where talent is developed and employees can realize their full potential.
Build a capable and diverse team through internal development, promotion, and external recruitment.
Develop succession depth and align with Finance, Safety, and Human Resources on performance management and talent development.
Coordinate with Supply Chain, Sourcing, Commercial, and Technical teams to align priorities, resolve constraints, and deliver business and customer commitments.
Partner across the integrated supply chain and manufacturing network to maximize business performance, lead change, and grow talent.
Share best practices, challenge thinking, provide candid and respectful feedback, and model effective teamwork.
Support cross-functional projects, enterprise priorities, engagement, and talent development across the business.