Reframesystems
Plant Manager - Net Zero Modular Construction
Billerica, MA. Posted 4 months ago
The role
The Plant Manager will run the microfactory floor and own daily execution to turn production plans into finished homes. This hands-on role involves leading the production team, managing throughput, quality, and safety, and scaling operations during a facility move.
What you will do
- Own daily production on the floor and hit the weekly build plan
- Lead the full production team including managers and leads
- Run the daily management system including morning huddles and visual management
- Hold area and team leads accountable to weekly targets
- Drive throughput and improve labor efficiency
- Own in-process and line checks to deliver a quality product
- Lead safety on the floor and run safety walks
- Own schedule reliability and on-time module completion
- Recruit, onboard, and develop builders and leads
- Help stand up the Billerica facility including floor layout and work cell design
Required qualifications
- 7+ years in manufacturing operations, including running a production floor through a real ramp or facility launch, with direct labor reporting to you
- Experience building a floor from a low base including work cells, supervision structure, and a daily operating system
- Strong people leadership with a track record of growing builders and technicians into leads
- Comfort with high-mix, project-based production
- Real floor presence
- Strong data orientation and comfort in a technology-forward factory
Nice to have
- Experience taking a production operation from low rate to high volume
- Construction, modular, or other high-variability production background
- Familiarity with lean and TWI
- Experience setting requirements for and partnering with an in-house software or MES team
- Experience with the prototype-to-production transition
About the company
Reframe Systems is a Physical AI and robotics company that delivers climate-resilient homes and buildings through highly automated microfactories. They use a vertically integrated delivery model to produce volumetric modular buildings.