Key Responsibilities: - Direct daily fabrication, bending, cutting, and cage assembly operations.
- Ensure production schedules meet customer delivery commitments and project timelines.
- Optimize throughput, labor utilization, and equipment performance; coordinate inter-plant workload balancing across locations.
- Implement lean manufacturing and process improvements.
- Maintain yard organization, inventory accuracy, and material flow.
- Lead a zero-incident safety culture across all sites; ensure compliance with OSHA and applicable state regulations; conduct regular safety audits, training, incident reviews, and maintain safe equipment operation and facility conditions.
- Ensure fabricated products meet drawings, specifications, and customer requirements.
- Implement quality control procedures and documentation.
- Address production errors, rework, and customer issues promptly.
- Oversee shipping, receiving, fleet coordination, and route planning.
- Ensure on-time deliveries to jobsites and customers; manage relationships with trucking partners and vendors.
- Hire, train, and supervise plant managers, supervisors, and yard personnel;
- develop future leaders to support expansion.
- Manage operational budgets, labor costs, and productivity targets; identify cost-saving opportunities without sacrificing quality or safety.
- Support estimating and project management with production input.
- Support site selection, startup, and integration of new locations.
- Standardize processes, systems, and reporting across facilities
- Lead operational readiness for scaling to three or four plants; evaluate equipment needs and capital investments.
Key Qualifications: - 710+ years of operations leadership in manufacturing, steel fabrication, construction supply, or related industry.
- Demonstrated experience managing supervisors and hourly production teams.
- Multi-site management experience preferred.
- Strong knowledge of production scheduling, logistics, and inventory control.
- Proven safety leadership and regulatory compliance experience.
- Ability to read construction drawings and specifications (rebar experience strongly preferred).
- Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems and Microsoft Office.
- Background in construction materials distribution; experience in reinforcing steel fabrication or structural steel.
- Lean/Six Sigma training or continuous improvement experience.
- Experience launching or scaling new facilities preferred.