General Manager Position

S2A Modular; Patterson (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid sick leave

Paid holidays

PTO

Opportunities for growth and career

Job summary

S2A Modular in Patterson, CA, seeks an experienced Production & Capacity Planning leader to optimize a 26-station flow line across two shifts while turning backlog into 30/60/90‑day capacity plans. You will own daily production performance and the plant scorecard, driving lean improvements and cost control.

As the operations owner, you’ll partner with ERP/MES systems and the CFO on budgets, standard costs, and capital projects, ensuring on-time delivery for ADU, single-family, multi-family, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations, construction management, or a related field.
• Working fluency with ERP or MES systems in a production environment.
• 10+ years in manufacturing operations, with at least 5 running a plant or a major production area.
• Direct experience commissioning, ramping, or significantly re-rating a production line — greenfield startup, new line launch, or a step-change increase in volume.
• Flow-line assembly experience: modular or manufactured housing, RV, marine, bus or truck body, or comparable large-format assembly.
• Understands cost accounting backwards and forwards — standard cost, routings, labor absorption, and variance analysis — and knows how to systematically identify, explain, and drive unfavorable production variances toward standard.
• Fluent in English and Spanish
• Comfortable spending the day on a production floor; onsite in Patterson, CA five days per week.

Responsibilities

• Manage the 26-station flow line at a two-hour station cycle across two shifts (6:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, with a thirty-minute handoff overlap).
• Convert the sales backlog and master production schedule into 30-, 60-, and 90-day capacity, staffing, overtime, and shift plans; identify capacity constraints before they affect customer commitments.
• Balance the line, break constraints, and hold cycle time as the product mix widens across ADU, single-family, multi-family, and commercial models.
• Own daily production performance: units completed, first-pass yield, rework, and on-time completion against the build schedule.
• Own the Patterson plant operating scorecard, including safety, schedule attainment, units completed, cycle time, first-pass yield, rework, scrap, labor hours per unit, overtime, equipment uptime, inventory accuracy, and cost variance to standard.
• Own plant equipment reliability and preventive maintenance, including uptime, planned versus unplanned downtime, critical spare parts, and root‑cause corrective action on recurring equipment failures.
• Lead continuous improvement across the plant using line balancing, standard work, 5S, visual management, root‑cause analysis, and other Lean methods to increase throughput and reduce labor hours, scrap, rework, and downtime.
• Own module quality through set, wrap, and transport — what leaves the plant must survive the road and the crane.

Skills

Fluent in English and Spanish

ERP / MES systems fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations, construction management, or related field

Tools

ERP/MES systems

Job description

LOCATION: Patterson, California
INDUSTRY:Offsite Construction / Volumetric Modular Housing
EMPLOYMENT TYPE:Full-Time
REPORTS TO: Chief Executive Officer
DIRECT REPORTS: Production supervision, Quality, Maintenance, Staging, Receiving and Shipping, and the Purchasing/Supply Chain Manager, across both shifts
STATUS: Full-time, exempt

About Us We are a growing modular manufacturing company specializing in volumetric residential and multi-family construction. Our plant delivers high‑quality, efficiently built homes using advanced manufacturing processes. As demand accelerates, we are expanding our team and seeking a detail‑oriented professional who thrives at the intersection of estimating, accounting, and operational support.

PositionOverview

Production & Capacity Planning

• Manage the 26‑station flow line at a two‑hour station cycle across two shifts (6:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, with a thirty‑minute handoff overlap).
• Convert the sales backlog and master production schedule into 30-, 60-, and 90‑day capacity, staffing, overtime, and shift plans; identify capacity constraints before they affect customer commitments.
• Balance the line, break constraints, and hold cycle time as the product mix widens across ADU, single‑family, multi‑family, and commercial models.
• Own daily production performance: units completed, first‑pass yield, rework, and on‑time completion against the build schedule.
• Own the Patterson plant operating scorecard, including safety, schedule attainment, units completed, cycle time, first‑pass yield, rework, scrap, labor hours per unit, overtime, equipment uptime, inventory accuracy, and cost variance to standard.

Equipment Reliability & Continuous Improvement

• Own plant equipment reliability and preventive maintenance, including uptime, planned versus unplanned downtime, critical spare parts, and root‑cause corrective action on recurring equipment failures.
• Lead continuous improvement across the plant using line balancing, standard work, 5S, visual management, root‑cause analysis, and other Lean methods to increase throughput and reduce labor hours, scrap, rework, and downtime.

Quality & Field Feedback

• Own module quality through set, wrap, and transport — what leaves the plant must survive the road and the crane.
• Establish a closed‑loop process with Project Management, Installation, Engineering, and Customer Service so field defects, installation issues, warranty claims, and transport damage result in permanent corrective action at the factory.

Cost, Budget & Standards

• Partner with the Controller and CFO on the work‑center standard cost model covering material, direct labor, and applied overhead by station, and own it operationally.
• Develop and manage the annual plant operating and capital budget; prepare business cases for equipment, tooling, automation, and facility improvements, and deliver approved capital projects on time and within budget.
• Own plant‑controllable spend such as direct and indirect labor, consumables, scrap, and utilities.
• Explain variance to standard with root cause and countermeasure, not narrative.

People & Organization

• Build and lead the plant organization across both shifts: production supervision, quality, maintenance, staging, and receiving and shipping.
• Recruit, train, and retain a production workforce in a Central Valley labor market that competes for operations talent.
• Establish tiered daily management — start‑of‑shift huddles, hour‑by‑hour boards, and escalation that reaches a decision.

Systems

• Drive disciplined use of Offsight, the Company's ERP system, for production tracking, station sign‑off, and QA documentation, with QuickBooks Online as the general ledger.
• Manage production flow through the Offsight Gantt charts: sequence modules across the 26 stations, track progress against the plan daily, and re‑plan the schedule when a station slips.
• Serve as the operations owner of routings, work centers, and shop‑floor data capture, and lead operations through the migration to a full manufacturing ERP.

Safety & Regulatory Compliance

• Own EHS performance and build a safety culture measured on leading indicators, not only recordables.
• Maintain compliance with Cal/OSHA and California HCD factory‑built housing requirements, including in‑plant inspection and the approved quality assurance program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations, construction management, or a related field. Equivalent hands‑on experience will be considered in place of the degree.
• Working fluency with ERP or MES systems in a production environment.
• 10+ years in manufacturing operations, with at least 5 running a plant or a major production area.
• Direct experience commissioning, ramping, or significantly re‑rating a production line — greenfield startup, new line launch, or a step‑change increase in volume.
• Flow‑line assembly experience: modular or manufactured housing, RV, marine, bus or truck body, or comparable large‑format assembly.
• Understands cost accounting backwards and forwards — standard cost, routings, labor absorption, and variance analysis — and knows how to systematically identify, explain, and drive unfavorable production variances toward standard.
• Fluent in English and Spanish, given the composition of the production workforce.
• Comfortable spending the day on a production floor; onsite in Patterson, CA five days per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• Modular construction, manufactured housing, or homebuilding experience; familiarity with California HCD or a comparable state in‑plant program.
• Experience with multi‑family or light commercial modular product.
• Lean or Six Sigma certification, with results to point to.
• Prior participation in an ERP implementation or a manufacturing module rollout.
• High‑growth or pre‑IPO company where the operating infrastructure was built rather than inherited.
• Experience managing hourly production staff across multiple shifts.

Compensation

Base salary range: $150,000 – $200,000, depending on experience, plus an annual performance bonus target of 20–25% of base and participation in the Company's equity program. Full benefits package.

California pay transparency: the posted range reflects the good‑faith range for this position at the time of posting.

• Health insurance benefits
• Paid sick leave
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Opportunities for growth and advancement

Benefits and employment policies are administered in accordance with company policy and applicable state and federal laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer S2A Modular is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace environment for all employees.