
Plant Manager
UFP Industries · Berlin, NJ
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $85k–$110k
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
A management production role at UFP Industries (industrial) in Berlin, NJ.
- Tools it names
- EHS / safety
- Base pay
- $85k–$110k
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
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How this role compares
Against 385 other live production postings in the US.
- Base pay
- About 24% below similar roles
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $106k–$150k, from 124 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 42%
- Lean 35%
- Root cause 32%
- ✓ EHS / safety 26%
- New product launch 25%
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How to get in at this plant
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- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at UFP Industries
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- 2
Send a short, curious note
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- How does off-shift and weekend coverage work?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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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.
This plant: UFP Industries in Berlin
1 other open role at this site.
- 2nd Shift Supervisor · Manufacturing · Supervisor
Full description from UFP IndustriesAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Responsibilities
- ◆Ensures that all plant assets are properly managed and safeguarded.
- ◆Staffs, develops, and coaches the production management team, evaluates performance, and initiates corrective action as required.
- ◆Develops and/or approves the master production schedule and shipping schedule as well as coordinating production activities between shifts and other functions.
- ◆Assists in developing capital expenditure recommendations.
- ◆Establishes quality standards for operations and initiates and manages quality improvement initiatives.
- ◆Ensures the plant is properly staffed to meet production levels and goals.
- ◆Monitors plant output, cuts/yields and scrap to ensure efficient resource utilization and initiates corrective action as required.
- ◆Ensures appropriate production data is entered into the system.
- ◆Establishes the use of raw material, work-in-process, and finished goods and coordinates inventory
requirements
with management consistent with inventory levels/turnover goals and coordinates month-end inventories.
- ✓Responsible for ensuring the yard meets Company conditions and is laid out for efficient operations.
- ✓Analyzes production operations and initiates corrective actions to ensure efficient product flow.
- ✓Monitors expenses, reviews P&L and other financial and business documents to compare to budget and initiates corrective action as required.
- ✓Manages activities of the Maintenance Department.
- ✓Ensures the plant complies with HR Company policies and procedures and Federal, State and local laws, rules and regulations.
- ✓Participates as an active member of the plant Safety Committee and ensures that plant operations are consistent with Company and OSHA policies, practices, and procedures.
- ✓Prepares various reports as required.
- ✓Performs other duties as required .
Qualifications
- ✓Minimum of five years of work experience as a production manager or equivalent is required.
- ✓Preferred experience and knowledge of UFP’s organization, culture, and product lines
- ✓Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and Outlook
- ✓Forklift operator certification is required
- ✓Working knowledge of shipping truck capacities
- ✓pay range may be adjusted depending on cost of living
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Bonus/Incentive Pay
Annual performance bonus opportunity based on Company and specific business unit ROI and PBOP achievement criteria and individual job responsibility and performance.
Benefits currently offered to our employees
- •Medical insurance
- •Health savings account with company contribution
- •Dental insurance
- •Vision insurance
- •Basic and voluntary life insurance
- •Disability insurance
- •401(k) plan with company match
- •Paid vacation and holidays
- •Stock purchase program with employee discount
- •Educational reimbursement
- •Wellness programs and challenges
- •Other supplemental benefits
