Manufacturing Plant Manager
Overhead Door · Brownsville, TX
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Production
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management production role at Overhead Door (industrial) in Brownsville, TX. Creates, owns, and drives achievement of plant-level KPIs and operating metrics, ensuring goals are clearly defined, measurable, reviewed regularly, and translated into actionable priorities for supervisors, support functions, and production teams.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- Root cause, Machining, Tooling
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Production Engineer roles in Texas: typical posted base $106k–$153k.
Median of the low and high ends of 24 live postings that list pay, out of 124 production engineer openings in Texas, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Texas plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 123 other live production postings in Texas.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $105k–$145k, from 22 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 42%
- Lean 30%
- ✓ Root cause 25%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Machining, Tooling, Cost reduction, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at Overhead Door
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- 2
Send a short, curious note
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Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
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Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
Manufacturing Plant Manager at Overhead Door in other locations
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Full description from Overhead DoorAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Allocating resources effectively and utilizing assets with the goal of increasing production while maintaining current cost and quality standards.
- ◆Leading with influence by partnering with supply chain, engineering, maintenance, purchasing and other support organizations to ensure manufacturing runs safely, smoothly and efficiently.
- ◆Increasing the ratio of value to non-value for manufacturing by facilitating the identification waste.
- ◆Aligning resources and actions to accomplish flow and provide value as perceived by the customer
- ◆Ensuring a culture of high performance and high involvement is achieved.
Principle
Responsibilities
- ◆Plans and directs production activities and establishes production priorities for products in keeping with effective operation and cost factors.
- ◆Establishes and sustains disciplined daily management processes, including structured tier meetings, visual management, issue escalation, root cause follow-up, and consistent review of safety, quality, delivery, cost, inventory, and productivity performance.
- ◆Creates, owns, and drives achievement of plant-level KPIs and operating metrics, ensuring goals are clearly defined, measurable, reviewed regularly, and translated into actionable priorities for supervisors, support functions, and production teams.
- ◆Maintains a strong focus on execution and accountability by setting clear expectations, assigning ownership, tracking commitments to closure, addressing performance gaps promptly, and ensuring corrective actions deliver sustained operational improvement.
- ◆Directs operation of departments and guides supervisors in the performance of their duties. Responsible for the motivation and development of subordinates to optimize their performance and their personal and professional growth.
- ◆Sets up and / or approves production schedules to ensure that goals are met and finished goods inventories and shipments are maintained in accordance with promised delivery dates.
- ◆Champions flow of materials and utilization of labor to fulfill production requirements.
- ◆Coordinates production activities with procurement, planning, scheduling, maintenance and quality assurance activities.
- ◆Manages the maintenance function to ensure optimized uptime, reliability, and readiness of the facility, production equipment, tooling, and utilities in support of safe and efficient plant operations.
- ◆Coordinates improvements for tooling, equipment and manufacturing methods.
- ◆Drives focus on safety, quality, delivery, cost and other production standards.
- ◆Accountable for customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, cost reduction and achievement of financial plan.
- ◆Coordinates problem solving sessions to continuously improve operational performance where appropriate.
- ◆Keeps up with current best practices and concepts within the plant management industry
- ◆Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Competencies
- ✓Strategic Mindset – translates future possibilities into breakthrough strategies
- ✓Decision Quality– Makes good and timely decisions
- ✓Builds Networks - Effectively builds formal and informal relationships
- ✓Persuades – Uses compelling arguments to gain support and commitment
- ✓Ensures Accountability– Holds self and others accountable to commitments Resourcefulness - Secures and deploys resources effectively and efficiently
- ✓Drives Results - consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances
- ✓Plans and Aligns- Plans and prioritizes work aligned with organizational goals
- ✓Optimize Work Processes - Deploys effective and efficient processes
- ✓Manages Complexity - Interprets complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
- ✓Financial Acumen - Interprets and applies an understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions
- ✓Customer Service Excellence - Operates with a world-class service mindset by driving reliable delivery performance, responsiveness, communication, and operational execution that consistently meets or exceeds customer expectations.
Requirements
- ✓Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university.
- ✓Ten years’ experience leading in manufacturing and production.
- ✓Fluency with assembly, machining and metal forming and finishing processes required.
- ✓Functional knowledge of key support areas: information systems, manufacturing and industrial engineering, purchasing, materials and product management.
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