Plant Leader

Original Composites and Fibers; Amarillo (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Original Composites & Fiberglass is seeking a Plant Leader to oversee the Amarillo facility, driving safety, environmental performance, and overall operational excellence. The role reports to the Americas Operations Director and focuses on achieving best-in-class performance while developing talent and maintaining customer focus.

The ideal candidate combines a strong engineering or business background with at least five years of plant leadership, proven cross-functional leadership, and a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or related field.
• At least five years of plant operations leadership experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving collaboration.
• Strong business and financial acumen and decision-making capability.
• Commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety, security, and environmental performance at the Amarillo site.
• Advance operational excellence with disciplined systems and zero-injury goals.
• Own the plant MGL, budgeting, and capital planning to improve performance.
• Develop talent and build a diverse, engaged workforce across functions.

Skills

Safety Leadership

Operational Excellence

People Development

Strategic Planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business

Master’s degree preferred

Job description

About Us

Original Composites and Fibers is a global leader in glass reinforcement solutions for the composites industry. Recently separated from Owens Corning, we now operate independently under the Praana ownership model, continuing a strong legacy of innovation, manufacturing excellence, and customer partnership.

With more than 4,000 employees worldwide, we are committed to redefining what’s possible through a performance-driven culture centered on safety, quality, sustainability, inclusiveness, and employee development. Guided by our values of passion, ownership, and team spirit, we work together to deliver innovative solutions and exceptional service across the globe.

LEAD A SAFE, HIGH-PERFORMING MANUFACTURING OPERATION

Original Composites & Fiberglass is seeking an accomplished Plant Leader to provide overall leadership for the Amarillo manufacturing facility. Reporting to the Americas Operations Director, this role owns site performance and the plant MGL and establishes the strategies, standards, operating practices, and organizational capability required to achieve best-in-class performance.

The successful candidate will be a visible, hands‑on leader who creates an injury‑free workplace, advances operational excellence, serves customers, develops talent, and delivers strong operational and financial performance. This leader will collaborates across the organization and represents the company in the Amarillo community.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Lead safety, security, and environmental performance

• Create and sustain a safe and secure work environment for employees, contractors, and visitors.
• Lead from a position of care for people and reinforce safe behaviors, sound choices, and accountability.
• Allocate the resources, investments, systems, programs, and leadership attention required to achieve zero injuries.
• Use clear performance measures to drive improvement, recognize safe behavior and achievements, and ensure accountability.
• Operate with zero environmental non‑conformities and continuously improve the plant’s environmental footprint.

Lead operational excellence

• Advance operational excellence through disciplined operating systems that target zero injuries, zero defects, and zero losses.
• Build the standards, routines, ownership, and follow‑through required to improve reliability, eliminate losses, and sustain manufacturing performance.
• Create clear line‑of‑sight between plant priorities, daily actions, performance measures, and sustainable improvement.

Know the business and serve customers

• Continuously build insight into the business, markets, customers, and strategy.
• Create an environment where employees are engaged, empowered, and focused on serving customers.
• Develop customer relationships and understand what is required for the company’s products to be recognized for high quality and value.

Execute strategy and drive manufacturing excellence

• Lead with a clear view of where the organization needs to be over the next one to three years and translate that direction into practical priorities.
• Communicate strategy, objectives, and expected results through effective two‑way communication and achieve outcomes through the team.
• Set clear, measurable performance expectations aligned with business goals and proactively manage operating metrics.
• Lead the annual operating plan and capital budget and initiate timely capital requests to maintain or enhance plant performance.
• Align resources to business strategy and lead strategic transformation while protecting safe, stable operations.

Own MGL and operational performance

• Own the plant MGL and make sound operating, resource, and investment decisions that improve business performance.
• Balance safety, quality, service, cost, people, reliability, and long‑term capability when setting priorities.
• Use business and financial acumen, data, and structured problem solving to create customer and enterprise value.

Develop a positive employee‑relations environment

• Build a positive, creative, diverse, and collaborative workplace where employees own the success of the business.
• Select and train employees, provide the right tools, processes, and systems, and empower people to deliver against clear expectations.
• Monitor labor activity and maintain compliance with company policies and applicable governmental requirements.
• Establish the facility as an employer of choice and maintain effective relationships with community and governmental stakeholders.

Lead and develop talent

• Create an environment where talent is developed and employees can realize their full potential.
• Build a capable and diverse team through internal development, promotion, and external recruitment.
• Develop succession depth and align with Finance, Safety, and Human Resources on performance management and talent development.

Coordinate across the organization and manufacturing network

• Coordinate with Supply Chain, Sourcing, Commercial, and Technical teams to align priorities, resolve constraints, and deliver business and customer commitments.
• Partner across the integrated supply chain and manufacturing network to maximize business performance, lead change, and grow talent.
• Share best practices, challenge thinking, provide candid and respectful feedback, and model effective teamwork.
• Support cross‑functional projects, enterprise priorities, engagement, and talent development across the business.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in engineering, business, or a related field; master’s degree preferred.
• At least five years of experience in a plant operations leadership role.
• Manufacturing leadership experience with responsibility for safety, operations, people, and performance delivery.
• Experience leading or participating in cross‑functional work outside of manufacturing.
• Demonstrated success hiring, developing, and promoting talent.
• Engineering or technical background preferred.
• Strong business and financial acumen and effective verbal and written communication skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Leadership experience in a large, complex, continuous‑process or comparable industrial manufacturing environment.
• Experience advancing operational excellence, reliability, and loss elimination.
• Experience leading organizational or operational transformation and developing capital strategies.
• Experience building constructive employee relations and strong community partnerships.

LEADERSHIP QUALITIES THAT WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED

• Act as an organizational steward and lead with integrity, ownership, and sound judgment.
• Collaborate, foster teamwork, and build alignment across functions and levels.
• Develop people and create an environment of accountability, learning, and growth.
• Drive results and follow through consistently on commitments.
• Allocate resources effectively and make disciplined trade‑offs.
• Listen actively, communicate clearly, and think and act strategically.
• Model curiosity and a growth mindset, challenge the status quo, and generate stronger solutions through diverse thinking.
• Work from an outside‑in perspective and create value for customers and the enterprise.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• Strong safety, security, and environmental performance supported by visible leadership and disciplined systems.
• Measurable advancement toward zero injuries, zero defects, and zero losses through operational excellence.
• Reliable delivery of customer, quality, service, cost, and operating commitments.
• Sound plant MGL performance and disciplined capital and resource allocation.
• An engaged, capable, and diverse leadership team with strong succession and development plans.
• Constructive employee relations and a reputation as an employer of choice.
• Strong cross‑functional coordination with Supply Chain, Sourcing, Commercial, and Technical teams, resulting in aligned priorities and effective execution.
• Effective partnership across the manufacturing network, integrated supply chain, and regional and corporate functions.

JOIN US

This is an opportunity to lead a key Original Composites & Fiberglass manufacturing operation and shape its safety culture, operating performance, talent, and future capability. Help the Amarillo facility build a safer, more reliable, more capable, and higher‑performing operation.

Equal Opportunity Employer

OCF is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law.