At Sabre Industries, we connect and power America's communities with world-class utility and telecom solutions. We reliably build a better world together; one customer, one team, and one community at a time. Our teams live out the organization's core values of integrity, commitment, innovation, and connection. That's how we continuously exceed our high standards of enterprise excellence-by creating a space for our engaged employees to thrive. With consistent hiring opportunities nationwide and countless career levels, chances are the next big step on your career path starts here. We work with our employees to create customized career paths and development in all facets of the organization. People will always be our greatest asset and we place emphasis on enhancing the lives of our employees.
Scope of Responsibility: This position leads the day-to-day operations of the facility, coordinates progress of projects and directs staff to maximize the effectiveness of plant operations while maintaining a safe and organized work environment. This position is also accountable for ensuring the achievement of department objectives through performance of assigned duties and responsibilities in compliance with the organization's high standards for safety, quality, profitability and customer service.
Essential Duties:
• Biased towards safety and quality ensuring compliance with all applicable government regulations and guidelines for both plant and personnel and maintains a safe and healthy workplace. • Directs and coordinates all plant activities regularly reviewing performance against operating plans, established standards, and communicates to subordinates and management on results. Makes changes and corrections in operations as indicated. • Employ innovative solutions and creative approaches when possible. • Provides positive, credible, energetic, hands-on leadership to assigned staff to ensure the achievement of plant and company strategic and operational goals. • Proactively provide training and development for the staff. • Partners with finance for financial aspects of plant operations including manufacturing efficiency, cost reduction, and containment. • Responsible for preparing facility budget with finance team while monitoring results against budget/forecast. • Develops and maintains appropriate employee-management relationships through proactive leadership, effective regular communications, organizational efficiency and profitable operations. • Analyzes staffing needs to ensure the facility is properly staffed with qualified individuals at all times to meet business goals and customer requirements. • Assists in planning and ensuring the effective and timely execution of all projects and strategies including any required coordination with other departments/vendors/suppliers to positively resolve all issues. • Keeps management informed on all critical operations related matters on a timely basis so issues can be addressed in an expeditious manner. • Maintain effective communications within the plant, with other divisions of the company, with the corporate organization and the local community as appropriate. • Develops operational programs, policies, procedures and controls. • Makes recommendations to improve production flow, equipment performance, quality of products and cost savings. • Ensures maintenance and security of all necessary company information. • Communicates regularly with peer plant managers, direct reports, others in person and through the use of technology. • Facilitates daily production meetings to review KPI's (Key Performance Indicators) plan counter measures and share successes as well as reports site performance on weekly and monthly intervals to leadership team. • Communicates one-on-one with direct reports to keep them informed of their progress and/or opportunities for improvement. • Performs other duties as assigned
Primary Focus: Directs and coordinates all plant activities regularly reviewing performance against operating plans and established standards and provide reports to subordinates and management on results. Makes changes and corrections in operations as indicated. Employ innovative solutions and creative approaches when possible. Strong analytical and decision-making skills and the ability to be adaptable and flexible. Strong interpersonal skills; influencing, relationship and trust building, communication and listening and personal engagement.
Position Requirements:
Education: Bachelor's Degree preferred (Engineering/ Engineering Technology or Business) within the steel weldment/structure manufacturing environment
Experience:
• Minimum of 3 years of successful manufacturing and operations experience. • Demonstrated progressive experience in a manufacturing environment. • Demonstrated experience in effective change management. • Demonstrated use of LEAN Manufacturing processes/techniques to drive performance improvement • Demonstrated performance and results associated to Essential Duties
Skills & Abilities:
• Effective interpersonal, communication and organizational skills. • Able to function independently and also work in a team environment • Takes initiative, develops and implements creative and effective solutions to key problems. • Strives for continuous improvement. • Thinks outside the box to solve problems. • Action-oriented. Has a bias for action and results. • Hands-on leader • Must be able to analyze data and possess acute attention to detail while working in a fast-paced work environment. • Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills. • Possesses positivity and enthusiasm with the ability to focus on agreed recommendations and results • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, and Outlook, along with ERP/MRP manufacturing software. • Ability to develop strong working relationships with direct reports, peers, and company leaders. • Experience in leading LEAN environments and continuous improvements • Ability to fluently read, write and speak in English is required • Applies sound business ethics and exhibits a high degree of integrity in all business interactions
Physical Requirements:
• Demonstrated ability to work with frequent interruptions in work flow and constantly changing priorities. • Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time with the ability to move throughout the office or outside manufacturing plant as needed. • Must be able to perform physical activities that require use of fingers, hands and arms, such as sitting, typing, using office equipment and reaching. Some additional physical activities may require walking, stooping, bending, twisting and handling of materials. • Position requires manual dexterity, arm-hand steadiness and a safety-minded individual. • Must have the ability to concentrate on tasks for long periods of time and be able to observe and receive information from all relevant sources. • Must be able to communicate verbally and in writing as well as answer telephones and greet customers
Benefits: At Sabre Industries, we invest in your future with a competitive benefits program. As a full-time employee, you are eligible for:
• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage • 401(k) with Company Match • Continuing Education & Tuition Reimbursement • Life and Disability Coverage • Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays • Health and Wellness Resources • Employee Discounts
Equal Opportunity Employer: Sabre Industries is an Equal Opportunity Employer: M/F/Vets/Disabled/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity