Plant Manager-Manufacturing Manager

Hearth Products Control Company•Miamisburg, OH

9d•$110,000 - $125,000

About The Position

The Manufacturing Manager is responsible for the overall performance and day-to-day execution of manufacturing operations across Concrete Products, Metal Fabrication, and HPC Assembly. The role leads production supervisors and ensures customer demand is converted safely into quality finished products on schedule and at expected productivity levels. The position owns production execution, labor utilization, capacity management, schedule attainment, manufacturing productivity, standard work, continuous improvement, and development of the production leadership team. It works closely with Production Planning, Purchasing, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, Warehouse, Shipping & Receiving, and Customer Service to identify and resolve issues that could affect production or customer commitments. The Manufacturing Manager oversees production scheduling and recovery, capacity and workforce planning, concrete and metal fabrication operations, HPC assembly, quality, safety, equipment availability, and continuous-improvement efforts. The role leads daily manufacturing reviews and provides the VP of Operations with visibility into significant risks, performance trends, recovery plans, and decisions requiring escalation. Performance is reviewed across the total manufacturing operation and separately for Concrete, Metal Fabrication, and HPC Assembly. The work environment is a manufacturing and production floor with exposure to noise, machinery, and metal materials. Required personal protective equipment (PPE) is used.

Requirements

Five or more years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience.
Demonstrated experience leading supervisors and hourly manufacturing employees.
Strong understanding of production scheduling, capacity planning, labor management, manufacturing flow, and constraint management.
Working knowledge of Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, 5S, and standard work.
Experience working within ERP/MRP-driven manufacturing operations.
Ability to understand production drawings, bills of materials (BOMs), routings, labor standards, and manufacturing performance data.
Strong leadership, communication, coaching, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to balance customer requirements with safety, quality, cost, capacity, and workforce considerations.

Nice To Haves

Multi-department manufacturing leadership experience.
Experience in fabrication, assembly, concrete/cast products, or a mixed manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

Provide overall leadership for Concrete, Metal Fabrication, and HPC Assembly operations.
Lead, coach, and develop production supervisors and establish clear expectations, accountability, and measurable objectives.
Communicate daily and weekly production requirements, translate schedules into departmental priorities, and monitor production against plan.
Develop recovery plans when production falls behind and maintain visibility to backlog, past-due orders, customer priorities, and constraints.
Partner with Production Planning to align schedules with labor, equipment, materials, capacity, and customer commitments.
Manage production sequencing and work-in-process, coordinate priority changes, and identify schedule risks before commitments are missed.
Monitor capacity across manufacturing departments and critical work centers; identify bottlenecks and recommend responses such as labor changes, overtime, cross-training, alternate routing, outsourcing, process improvements, equipment, or capital investment.
Manage staffing and labor deployment; review overtime, monitor utilization, productivity, attendance, and staffing gaps, and partner with HR on recruiting and workforce planning.
Oversee concrete production activities, including casting, curing, finishing, inspection, and downstream operations; ensure required molds, materials, labor, equipment, work instructions, and capacity are available.
Oversee metal fabrication processes, including laser cutting, press brake, welding, grinding, finishing, and outside processing; ensure work-center readiness and address downtime, flow, setup, throughput, and quality issues.
Oversee HPC assembly staffing, component and kit availability, output, labor efficiency, work-in-process, shortages, quality, standard work, and workload balancing.
Partner with the Quality Manager to prevent defects, monitor quality metrics, ensure containment and corrective actions, and support ISO and Quality Management System requirements.
Maintain a strong safety culture, enforce safety requirements, participate in investigations and corrective actions, ensure training and qualifications, and promote housekeeping and 5S.
Monitor critical equipment availability and downtime; partner with Maintenance and outside resources, support preventive maintenance, establish recovery plans, and recommend capital equipment where needed.
Establish and sustain continuous improvement, standard work, improved production flow, waste reduction, Kaizen and process-improvement activities, 5S, visual management, and measurement of improvement results.
Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with supervisors, develop their leadership and problem-solving skills, develop future supervisors and leads, and create succession plans.
Lead daily manufacturing reviews covering plan versus actual, production requirements, past-due work, customer orders, staffing, shortages, downtime, quality, outside processing, capacity, safety, and recovery actions.
Provide the VP of Operations with clear visibility into significant production risks, performance trends, recovery plans, and decisions requiring escalation.
Track and review manufacturing KPIs, including schedule attainment, on-time production completion, backlog, throughput, labor efficiency, capacity, overtime, first-pass yield, scrap and rework, downtime, work-in-process, lead time, material-shortage downtime, safety incidents, attendance, skills coverage, and continuous-improvement results.