Plant Manager 2

Cornerstone Building Brands•Oak Grove, LA

49d•Onsite

About The Position

The Plant Manager II oversees manufacturing sites, drives operational improvements, and ensures performance meets safety, quality, delivery, and cost expectations. The role leads cross-functional strategies, manages change, and balances long-term planning with immediate operational needs. It is accountable for team safety, trust, talent development, and strong communication with senior leaders. The position reports to the Director of Operations and helps execute manufacturing excellence strategies. The Plant Manager develops site cost strategies and manages growth or expansion, achieves year-over-year savings through labor and overhead optimization, and oversees new product and pilot project implementation. The role promotes safe, inclusive, and respectful working relationships; creates production schedules balancing efficiency, supply delivery, and employee well-being; and ensures compliance with quality standards and total quality management activities. The role reinforces the manufacturing excellence roadmap, encourages lean thinking and employee engagement, simplifies processes, and prioritizes operational cost improvements. It helps establish project teams for new equipment and define commissioning, qualification, and verification approaches. It also develops operations talent and leadership teams, forecasts labor needs, provides tactical guidance, supports a high-performance culture, and participates in cross-functional projects and community engagement. The position requires minimal travel (10%).

Requirements

Preferred bachelor's degree in engineering or business, or alternatively 10–12 years of relevant professional experience.
At least 5 years of manufacturing experience, including packaging, process engineering, warehousing, or assembly.
At least 3 years in a people-management role.
Proven track record applying lean tools and processes for sustained improvement, including 5S, 5Y, Fishbone, PDCA, and Kaizen.
Experience leading teams through formal management systems, such as Oracle, MES software, and CPS pillars.
Experience participating on cross-functional teams, driving decisions, and overseeing operational and financial metrics.
Strong understanding of manufacturing supply chain functions, including planning, logistics, quality, materials management, and inventory control.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office products.
Ability to lift up to 30 pounds and tolerate prolonged periods on one's feet, standing, and bending.
Ability to work around moving mechanical parts, fumes, airborne particles, a non-climate-controlled environment, and high noise levels.
Ability to travel minimally, approximately 10%.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in engineering or business.
Familiarity with AutoCAD and statistical packages.

Responsibilities

Set expectations for respectful and inclusive relationships among supervisors, peers, and employees.
Create work environments that support physical and mental well-being and attention to detail.
Develop site strategies for cost of goods sold and manage growth or expansion.
Achieve year-to-year cost savings by optimizing direct labor and overhead expenses.
Oversee implementation of new products and pilot projects.
Prioritize employee and company-asset safety and security, and address immediate safety concerns.
Create production schedules that balance efficiency, supply delivery, employee well-being, and strategic use of overtime.
Ensure compliance with quality standards, including QA Index and Right First Time.
Drive total quality management activities at the sites.
Reinforce the manufacturing excellence roadmap and hold self and others accountable for performance and leadership commitments.
Implement lean ways of working that promote process improvement and employee engagement.
Simplify site processes and prioritize changes that affect operational cost.
Help establish project teams for new equipment and define a commissioning, qualification, and verification approach.
Align training and talent development with future business needs.
Provide tactical guidance to operations groups and develop and train leadership and technical teams.
Use qualitative and quantitative methods to forecast labor demand and mix.
Foster a culture aligned with the company's mission, values, and success model.
Participate in the community, promote manufacturing career opportunities, nurture future talent, enhance the company's reputation, and give back.
Develop culture-improvement approaches based on employee engagement survey data and implement solutions that support a high-performance culture.
Lead and participate in cross-functional projects and business initiatives.
Perform other duties as required.