Facilitate the day-to-day operations of the Prefabrication Department and consistently work to add to the department's success. Ability to manage multiple Prefabrication Facilities between states. Perform duties such as: Safety, managing prefabrication design, prefab facility operations, project management, employee development, and continuous improvement. The Prefabrication Manager must ensure the timely delivery of a high quality, accurate products that meet the customer's needs. Additional duties include managing colleagues in a team environment, creating content that supports branch/department efforts, planning meetings, tracking documentation, investigating problems and coming up with solutions, & any other tasks necessary to build and grow the business.
Prefabrication Design:
Coordinate with Virtual Design Construction (VDC) dept. with layouts and designs in Columbia & Atlanta Pre-fab shops. This will require 25-50% traveling between both locations.
Provide direction to the Designer/Drafter team by assigning tasks, directing the efficient use of time, holding the team accountable for design hours, and bringing projects to completion.
Create task specific Bill of Materials (BOMs) and order materials directly from vendors.
Facilitate the hand off from Prefabrication design to the Prefabrication shop for production.
Recommend continuous process improvement strategies whenever possible.
Prefabrication Manufacturing:
Ensure that safety is the first priority for every task assigned.
Manage production in the shop by ensuring the quality and timely delivery of products.
Receive, register, and store large quantities of building materials.
Build assemblies from internal designs or from VDC dept. to exact specifications.
Conduct Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) checks to maintain and improve standards for the construction of prefabricated products.[SH1] [SH2]
Keep work areas clean, organized, and free of clutter and hazards.
Track shipments and deliveries
Project Management:
Meet with project team members to collect, interpret, and convey information vital to the successful completion of projects.
Manage the prefabrication department using project management software to allocate time and resources appropriately.
Facilitate [SH3] face-to-face communication between the prefabrication department and the project team.
Ensure that customer relationships are professionally established and properly maintained.
Any other assigned duties and tasks that support the overall success of the companies.
Continuous Improvement:
Coordination with VDC department to improve processes between the groups.
Capture accurate data for process improvement.
Use best practices and continually strive to improve these processes.
Research new products and develop methods for their construction and design.
Identify waste elimination deficiencies and recommend improvements.
Recommend continuous process improvement strategies whenever possible.
People Development:
Working with Leaning and development team and operation managers to assist in people and training program development.
Train apprentices in facility to translate into field.
Develop leaders within facility.
Educate workforce on pros and opportunities in prefab.