Plant Manager - Net Zero Modular Construction

Responsibilities

• Production and Floor Leadership
• Own daily production on the floor: hit the weekly build plan, keep modules moving on takt, and clear the constraints that slow the line.
• Lead the floor's full production team, including the production managers, area managers, and leads, and be the single point of leadership the team relies on day to day so that no one person on the floor is a single point of failure.
• Run the daily management system: morning huddles, tiered check-ins, and visual management the team actually understands and owns.
• Hold area and team leads accountable to weekly targets that step down along the efficiency glidepath, and give them the support to hit them.
• Throughput, Quality, and Safety
• Drive throughput toward our targets and improve labor efficiency by working the lowest-performing processes first.
• Deliver a quality product. Own the in-process and line checks, catch and correct defects on the floor, and build every module to standard.
• Lead safety on the floor day to day. Run safety walks, close out action items, and build a culture where working safely is how the floor operates.
• Own schedule reliability and on-time module completion for active projects.
• People and Team Development
• Build the supervision and shift structure the floor needs as the team grows from around 20 to 80 or more.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop builders and leads, and grow technicians into leaders the way good operators do, through real scope and candid feedback.
• Partner with HR and Recruiting on the high-volume hourly hiring and onboarding the ramp requires.
• Set clear expectations and a floor culture that takes pride in what it ships.
• Factory Launch and Scale-Up
• Help stand up the Billerica facility, from floor layout and work cell design through commissioning and first article, and lead the production team through the move.
• Establish the daily operating system at the new facility so it performs from the start rather than relearning what we already know.
• Translate the production plan into staffing, training, and floor readiness on an accelerated timeline.
• Systems and Continuous Improvement
• Be a power user and requirements partner for our internal factory software team. You set the floor's requirements and you live in the tools every day.
• Run standard work and continuous improvement on the floor, and partner with our operational excellence function to make the factory more capable every week.
• Manage from the data the floor generates. If it is not measured, it is not managed.
• 30 / 90 / 1 Year Outcomes
• First 30 days
• Build trust with the production team and current floor leads. Spend most of your time on the floor, not in a conference room.
• Learn current-state performance (throughput, labor efficiency, quality escapes, safety, schedule reliability) and name the top three constraints holding back the build plan.
• Re-establish a daily operating rhythm the team owns: a huddle that works, clear daily targets, and visual management people actually use.
• Get smart on the Billerica move and what has to be true on the floor for a clean ramp.
• First 90 days
• Deliver a measurable lift on the top constraint (cycle time, labor minutes per square foot, quality escapes, or schedule adherence) with a repeatab

Requirements

• This is a hands-on, on-the-floor role. You own daily production, the people who build, and the operating rhythm that keeps quality, safety, and schedule on track. Your job is to run a floor that performs today and gets more capable every week.
• You report to the Head of Operations. Until that role is filled, you report to a member of Reframe's executive team.

Benefits

Additional Information

About Reframe Systems Reframe Systems is on a mission to build resilient housing for all, at massive scale. We are replacing the fragmented, trade-by-trade construction model with a vertically integrated, software-driven manufacturing system. Our volumetric module platform and agile microfactory in the greater Boston area build homes faster, cheaper, and with lower embodied carbon than conventional construction. We are backed by leading VC firms in the industrial and construction space, and we have a national scaling roadmap underway.

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