Mgr - Plant - SBST

Sabre Industries, Inc.

Bossier City (LA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision coverage

401(k) with Company Match

Continuing Education & Tuition Reimb."

Life and Disability Coverage

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Job summary

Sabre Industries seeks an experienced Plant Manager to lead a manufacturing facility in Louisiana, overseeing production, shipping, and budgeting while driving Lean and Six Sigma initiatives. The role requires building a strong culture, aligning operations with corporate strategy, and ensuring safety and quality across all processes.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of steel manufacturing leadership, excel in cross-functional collaboration, and drive continuous improvement through

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Business/Management/Operations or related field preferred.
Minimum five years of steel manufacturing/operations leadership with full site responsibility.

Responsibilities

Direct and coordinate all plant activities with regular performance reviews against plans.
Provide hands-on leadership to staff, ensuring achievement of goals and staff development.
Oversee financial aspects including profitability, budgeting, and cost control.
Ensure proper staffing to meet business goals and customer requirements.
Plan and execute projects with cross-department coordination to resolve issues.
Stay updated on operational, engineering, and safety best practices.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Lean manufacturing

Six Sigma

Team building

Budget management

Staff coaching

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business/Management/Operations

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Brief Description

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

The Plant Manager is the senior leader at the facility and will lead a team of individuals responsible for all phases of plant operations including production and shipping and receiving. Will establish the plant culture and create an environment where employees are motivated, rewarded, and focused on performance and customers. The Plant Manager will interact with the home office to ensure alignment with the overall strategy and direction of the organization. Responsible for physical plant up-keep and capital improvements.

Essential Duties

Direct and coordinate all plant activities regularly reviewing performance against operating plans and established standards and provide reports to subordinates and management on results. Make changes and corrections in operations as indicated. Employ innovative solutions and creative approaches when possible.

Provide 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.

Oversee all financial aspects of plant operations including profitability, manufacturing efficiency and cost reduction and containment. Assist in preparing a facility budget and operating forecasts and monitor results against budget.

Analyze staffing needs to ensure the facility is properly staffed with the appropriate number of qualified individuals at all times to meet business goals and customer requirements.

Assist in planning and ensuring the effective and timely execution of all projects and strategies including any required coordination with other departments to positively resolve all issues.

Investigate and stay abreast of operational, engineering and technical developments, best practices and recommend programs and program changes as indicated.

Create a performance‑based culture focused on achieving results, trust, and continuous improvement. Establish an environment where employees are engaged and feel confident in their ability to excel in their chosen profession.

Work with corporate office regarding staffing plans, capital investment, and improvement projects.

Work closely with quality personnel to review product consistency to determine trends and areas of improvement.

Review established production schedules for all manufacturing departments to ensure established inventory levels are met while operating at the highest efficiency possible.

Work closely with the environmental health and safety manager to ensure all members of the manufacturing team are aware of safety policies to provide a safe workplace for our employees. Maintain and support a superior safety and “housekeeping” program.

Communicate with research and development as well as product management personnel to develop new product strategies.

Coordinate with purchasing to develop and improve supplier relationships.

Other duties as assigned, directed, requested, or needed.

Additional duties as assigned.

Position Requirements

Develop operational programs, policies, procedures and controls. Make recommendations to improve production flow, equipment performance, quality of products, and cost savings.

Evaluate and recommend improvements to production scheduling to improve efficiencies.

Evaluate need and use of outsourced services where appropriate.

Carefully review and obtain required approvals for all agreements for outside services.

Establish performance indicators, ensure sites meet or exceed and drive for continued excellence.

Optimize efficiencies and improve productivity.

Hire top talent, coach, train and motivate staff to ensure the highest levels of performance are met.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Business/Management/Operations or another related field preferred.

Experience: A minimum of five years of steel manufacturing, welding, press, plasma machining and operations leadership experience. Full site responsibility to include production, shipping, inventory, maintenance, etc.

Skills & Abilities: Capability with implementation of best practices, continuous improvement, and lean tools including six sigma, 5‑S, lean manufacturing, transactional lean,etc.

Computer skills including Microsoft Office Products (Word, Excel, Power Point) to analyze data and trends.

Excellent planning and organizational skills, with the ability to balance production and maintenance needs.

Leadership, team building, and advanced coaching skills; ability to work with teams and lead decision‑making processes in a team environment.

Demonstrated understanding of the principles and applications associated with manufacturing operations, maintenance, and engineering.

Strong analytical and decision‑making skills and the ability to be adaptable and flexible.

Ability to build relationships, engender trust, and inspire a strong sense of camaraderie and accountability; the ability to motivate employees across the organization to achieve higher levels of performance.

Strong interpersonal skills; influencing, relationship and trust building, communication and listening, and personal engagement.

Excellent communication skills: ability to effectively and persuasively interact with front line employees up to senior executives at the Board level.

Physical Requirements

Must be able to lift up to 75 pounds.

Must be able to perform physical activities that require considerable use of arms and legs and moving entire body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, bending, twisting and handling of materials.