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Plant Manager

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Job Location : Junction City,KS, USA

Posted on : 2025-08-11T00:45:53Z

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COMPANY INFO

As an industry leader for manufacturing, wood treating, Oregon Cascade Building Materials, Inc. dba Doman Treated Wood, is dedicated to our customers with a mission to provide quality products and services.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Plant Manager (PM) of Operations-Treating (Full-Time Position)

Department: Lumber Treating Service Center

Reports To: General Manager (GM)

SUMMARY

Oregon Cascade Building Materials, Inc. is seeking a seasoned manufacturing leader that has previous work experience in a manufacturing environment. This position is responsible for the daily operations of the treating, incising production and distribution activities. The PM will be accountable for the execution of manufacturing activities including safety, environmental compliance, workforce management, and cost management, This person will provide overall leadership in all treating processes, inventory tracking processes, ensuring accurate and on-time customer deliveries, streamlining processes, reducing waste and building a highly functioning workforce while leading with a hands-on approach. This role will champion a continuous improvement mindset, build a culture of accountability, provide industry leading customer service, as well as strong decision-making and risk assessment capabilities to ensure the delivery of high-quality products and customer services.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND FUNCTIONS:

Includes, but not limited to the following:

  • Ensure a proactive safety culture is supported and executed throughout facility, with the goal of zero recordable incidents.
  • Champion a behavioral based safety culture.
  • Become a proficient user of Agility in all aspects of the business.
  • Direct operations including, manufacturing, environmental, safety, transportation, site supervision, and supply chain liaison with sales.
  • Ensure treating plant is producing products within agreed upon specifications and that continuous improvement plans are in place and followed.
  • Drive the annual operating plan with clear objectives, strategies, quality standards, budgets, and supporting initiatives to successful results.
  • Maintain and improve metrics to inform daily, quarterly and annual decisions regarding business operations.
  • Champion preventive maintenance, and reliability and cost-appropriate investment in maintenance, replacement and upgrade capital projects.
  • Collaborates effectively across functions, such as Sales Department, Finance, Human Resources, and with other production facilities, as needed, to assure alignment.
  • Effectively recruitment, retention, employee development and rewards/recognition strategies.
  • Inspire, motivate and instill a sense of urgency in the organization (lead by example).
  • Lead production goals and communicate them to all key personnel.
  • Timely communicate any manufacturing issues or quality concerns to GM.
  • Provide process and system analysis for on-going continuous improvement initiatives.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

  • Knowledge of environmental and safety practices.
  • 7+ years of extensive experience in leading high-performance operations/manufacturing teams.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience managing a production facility.
  • Managed an organization of 30+ employees with company revenues exceeding $50M.
  • Familiarity with Lean processing methods with proven results of increased quality, reduced cost and overall increase performance of the organization.
  • Ability to track, manage, and implement change initiatives.
  • Management of P&L (budgeting and forecasting).
  • Experience establishing processes, KPIs, tracking and process mapping.
  • Experience in Capital planning & management.
  • Logistics, freight and trucking knowledge.
  • Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presentation skills.
  • Able to solve analytical problems and get to root cause.
  • Strong working knowledge of MS Office Suite and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems required.
  • Demonstrated ability to identify, develop and lead talent through coaching, performance management, organization development, and talent development activities
  • Strong integrity and ethics
  • Six Sigma or Lean certification would be a plus
  • Experience in Lumber Treating manufacturing is a plus

Benefits provided, upon eligibility:

- Medical, Dental and Vision

- 401(k) Plan

- Employee Common Share Purchase Plan

- Paid Vacation/Sick and Major Holidays

Must be able to perform job duties for eight (8) working hours plus per day, including outdoor work and being exposed to inclement weather conditions. May be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening, FBI and/or DOJ background check. Compensation will be based on experience. Oregon Cascade Building Materials, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Company DescriptionThis is an opportunity to get in with a Company that is powered by one of the largest most successful pressure treaters and building material distributors in the industry. Our mindset is growth and expansion for our Company and our Team. We are hiring people who are passionate about what they do every day, who have a desire to make a difference, and who thrive in a team environment. We reward our employees through competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and advancement opportunities. We strive to provide a safe and enjoyable place to work!We believe in equal opportunity and promoting a Team Environment with Safe Working Conditions while providing our employees the opportunity to advance their skill sets to grow their careers while contributing to the growth of our Company.Company DescriptionThis is an opportunity to get in with a Company that is powered by one of the largest most successful pressure treaters and building material distributors in the industry. Our mindset is growth and expansion for our Company and our Team. We are hiring people who are passionate about what they do every day, who have a desire to make a difference, and who thrive in a team environment. We reward our employees through competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and advancement opportunities. We strive to provide a safe and enjoyable place to work!We believe in equal opportunity and promoting a Team Environment with Safe Working Conditions while providing our employees the opportunity to advance their skill sets to grow their careers while contributing to the growth of our Company.

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