ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
• Effectively resolve customer complaints and ensure quality customer service.
• Enforce safety procedures and policies and ensure a safe work environment free of hazards.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA and other government agencies.
• Ensure proper compliance and execution of the HAZMAT program.
• Ensure co-workers are following safety rules and are demonstrating safe working behavior.
• Drive overall quality for product built, shipped to and received by customer.
• Strive to ensure quality outcome of product the first time, responsible for correcting quality errors and fixing processes to avoid future quality errors from occurring.
• Direct and coordinate the activities of employees engaged in the production of doors.
• Plan and establish work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet production goals.
• Demonstrate equipment operations and work and safety procedures to new employees, or assign employees to experienced workers for training.
• Partner with human resources to resolve worker problems, complaints, or grievances.
• Recommend or implement measures to motivate employees and to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality, or efficiency.
• Train and develop co-workers in their jobs.
• Hire, train, evaluate, and discharge staff, and resolve personnel grievances.
• Institute employee suggestion or involvement programs.
• Read and analyze charts, work orders, production schedules, and other records and reports, in order to determine production requirements and to evaluate current production estimates and outputs.
• Coordinate operations and activities within or between departments/location.
• Interpret specifications, blue prints, job orders, and company policies and procedures for workers.
• Maintain operations data such as time, production, and cost records, and prepare management reports of production results.
• Determine standards, budgets, production goals, and rates, based on company policies, equipment and labor availability, and workloads.
• Requisition materials, supplies.
• Calculate labor and equipment requirements and production specifications, using standard formulas.
• Direct and coordinate production, processing, distribution and marketing activities.
• Stay within budget and approve expenditures for supplies, materials, and human resources, ensuring that materials, labor and equipment are used efficiently to meet production targets.
• Review processing schedules and production orders to make decisions concerning inventory requirements, staffing requirements, work procedures, and duty assignments, considering budgetary limitations and time constraints.
• Review operations and confer with technical staff to resolve production or processing problems.
• Initiate and coordinate inventory and cost control programs.
• Prepare and maintain production reports.
• Set and monitor product standards, examining samples of raw productions or directing testing during processing, to ensure finished products are of prescribed quality.
• Develop and implement production tracking and quality control systems, analyzing production, quality control, maintenance, and other operational reports, to detect production problems.
• Coordinate and recommend procedures for facility and equipment maintenance or modification, including the replacement of machines.
• Maintain current knowledge of the quality control field, relying on current literature pertaining to materials use, technological advances, and statistical studies.
• Ensure inspection of materials, products, or equipment to detect defects or malfunctions.
• Manage production with minimum waste and quality errors.
• Observe work, and monitor processes, and other indicators to ensure that operators conform to production standards.
• Participate in monthly safety committee meetings.
• Timely investigate and complete a thorough accident investigation report with corrective action input and have an action plan developed to correct safety issues. This includes taking the injured employee to receive the proper medical attention.
• Conduct monthly site safety inspections, and conduct weekly tool box safety talks.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS
Competency Statement(s)
• Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
• Acts with Integrity - Demonstrates responsibility and honest behavior in all roles, tasks and responsibilities
• Business Acumen - Ability to grasp and understand business concepts and issues.
• Communicates Effectively - Creates open channels of communication, adapts message to fit the audience, expresses ideas clearly and concisely, keeps others well informed; listens carefully to input and feedback
• Customer Driven - Provides outstanding customer service (to both internal and external customers); follows through on responsibilities to customers; leaves all customers satisfied
• Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
• Delegating Responsibility - Ability to allocate authority and/or task responsibility to appropriate people.
• Drives Results - Demonstrates the ability to get results despite large workload, competing demands and a fast-paced environment; performed all tasks in job description in a highly effective manner, creative and innovative and drives process improvements
• Motivation - Ability to inspire oneself and others to reach a goal and/or perform to the best of their ability.
• Product/Job Knowledge - Demonstrates a high level of knowledge of job, products, services and procedures. Has a high level of job knowledge and understanding of systems, procedures, etc
• Promotes Teamwork - Demonstrates positive working relationships with co-workers, effectively handles conflict situations, comes to work when scheduled, adheres to schedule for arrival time, breaks and lunches
• Resource Management (People & Equipment) - Ability to obtain and appropriate the proper usage of equipment, facilities, materials, as well as personnel.
• Drives Quality – Work is correct and error free within company policies and guidelines, checks quality and correct quality errors and processes, passionate in ensuring that customers receive a quality and correct product
• Safety Orientation - Follows safety policies and procedures, identifies and corrects safety hazards, encourages others to work safety
• Other duties as assigned
Education: Bachelor's Degree (four year college or university) preferred
Experience:
• Eight or more years experience in a manufacturing environment plus 2 years in a leadership role
• Five plus years in management/supervisory position plus 2 years in a manufacturing facility
SKILLS & ABILITIES
Computer Skills
MS Office, WMS and ordering system
Other requirements: Valid driver’s license required. Safe driver history/record required for insurance and liability reason.
Specialty Building Products is the leading distributor of specialty building products in North America. SBP operates under the brands U.S. LUMBER, Alexandria Moulding, REEB Millwork, DW Distribution, Millwork Sales and Amerhart. We serve 45 states in the U.S. and 8 provinces in Canada from over 40 locations. Here at SBP we are a people first organization, our team is built upon strong culture and standards for success. We value your perspective and want to learn more about you with a commitment to laying the foundation for you to build a successful career with us. Join us and EVOLVE your future at Specialty Building Products!
Being a part of SBP you will be eligible for many benefits. Full-Time benefits would include:
- Medical, Dental, Vision given on the 1st of the month following 30 days of employment
- Company-Paid Life Insurance & Disability
- 401(k) with Company Match
- Company-Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays & Floating Holidays
- PLUS ADDITIONAL PERKS!
Serving our communities:
We are also committed to our core value of “using our influence to have a uniquely positive impact” on the people that we touch. Through our initiatives we encourage and encourage and incentivize our employees to aid fellow employees in need and to better serve our communities and the people we directly influence.
We are proud to have the best team in our industry. We have experienced a tremendous amount of growth as a company. This growth has served not only our customer base but has also provided significant opportunities for advancement amongst our employees
U.S. Lumber Group is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy of U.S. Lumber Group not to discriminate in hiring and employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, age, military status, genetic information, or other protected class status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
