Endura Products, Inc., a division of Masonite International, is an award-winning U.S. manufacturer of high-performance exterior door components that work together to deliver a better door system in every way. These components enhance performance, save time, eliminate service calls, and cut costs, delivering a smarter door experience for everyone, every time.

Innovation

Endura is built on innovation, delivering the highest levels of component performance as the standard.

Solutions

Endura prides itself on offering solutions that lead the industry in performance and quality and are always working to make doors work not just better, but smarter.

Products

Endura is headquartered in Colfax, North Carolina, with facilities in North Carolina, Oregon, Texas and Tennessee, and distributes products throughout the United States and Canada.

THE POSITION

Endura is seeking a Division Operations Manager for their Wood Division with facilities in North Carolina and Texas. Based in North Carolina, the Division Ops Manager will have full P&L accountability for the Wood Division with annual revenue of approximately $115M. The business encompasses three facilities, two in North Carolina (Colfax and Stokesdale) and one in Texas, leading a total employee population of approximately 285, with direct reports including a Production Manager and multiple Manufacturing Supervisors, the site maintenance teams, a Production Control group, and a Lumber Buyer.

Managing the Wood Division, the Division Operations Manager will contribute to strategic planning while ensuring that division activities (inclusive of all three facilities) are consistent and aligned to overall corporate strategy. The Wood Division has been one of the pre-eminent domestic leaders in the exterior door frame market, has made substantial ongoing investments in the business, and has introduced new products in this product category. While the division has enjoyed good success to date, it faces significant challenges to take the next step in growth, to capitalize on business opportunities. This Divisional Leadership position requires managing change, developing people and systems, ensuring employee engagement through leadership, and ensuring a consistent focus on Safety and Quality. It is expected this position will ensure Endura Products, Inc. maintains its competitive leadership position in the market by taking on higher volumes, outperforming competitors in response time, and growing the bottom line while effectively servicing customers. As such, the objective will be to improve the manufacturing process in order to deliver unprecedented manufacturing and shipping volumes and overall growth.

Critical to success in this role will be the incumbent’s strong leadership and strategic thinking capabilities, coupled with a drive for results in order to ensure success of the business. Collaborative, solutions-oriented, highly accountable, and proactive, the Division Ops Manager is a strong problem solver who is adaptable and innovative, with demonstrated success leading complex, dynamic and highly technical operations. This leader will be a strong relationship builder at all levels with a proven ability to engage and elevate teams to new levels of performance in order to create a winning culture that will underpin sustainable success.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for fostering a safe operating environment and prioritizing safety above all else. This position is accountable, with the support of the EHS group, for employee safety, safety, and environmental compliance, and ensuring a culture that promotes this emphasis.
• Optimize the manufacturing processes and ensure the implementation of best practices to enhance overall facility efficiencies and productivity.
• The operation is a 2-shift 5-day operation. Involvement in both shifts and ensuring a smooth shift transition is critical.

• Build structure into the business conducive to delivering higher output and increased shipments, leading to improved overall financial performance.

• Actively involved in filling open roles and developing talent to counteract significant labor challenges and costs currently and in the future.

• Accountable for the financials of the Wood Division that will strategically leverage diverse resources, prioritize, and support real time operation and long-term productivity, quality and efficiency goals.

• Responsible for production standards and the development and adherence of safety and quality programs, in addition to overall improvement in safety and maintenance.

• Develop and sustain a high-performance workforce by partnering with the HR Department to build a strong production team, enact good performance management practices, and communicating with wage roll employees both one-on-one and in town halls.

• Build working relationships with peers in achieving and maintaining the accuracy and consistent flow of information, execution of procedures, and performance of the overall operations.
• Improve cross-functional communication and collaboration and develop a more participatory, cohesive, and team-based organization.

• Take initiative to engage employees by holding town halls while simultaneously representing Endura Products, Inc. in the broader community.

IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred or equivalent experience with a background in process engineering, operations leadership in a highly technical manufacturing environment.
• Some experience in Wood Processing business preferred but not mandatory.
• Experience working with Lean Manufacturing and a Continuous Improvement environment.
• A highly motivated and results-oriented self-starter (one that takes initiative to learn the business quickly) that translates strategy into concrete plans and results with an ability to plan for the future.
• Competitive, hungry, and driven to win, the ideal candidate will be inspired by the emerging challenge and can respond quickly.
• An inspirational leader, who leads by example and can create and articulate a vision in such a way that it helps to propel others in the division and broader organization to achieve it.
• The ideal candidate brings the leadership skills required to build and motivate teams to deliver accelerated growth and create a winning culture that is collaborative, cohesive, and energized.
• Metrics-driven and possessing financial acumen, exceptional problem solver and analytical thinker (understands yields and capacity). Ability to identify emerging patterns as it relates to customer needs and the evolving marketplace.
• Relationship-oriented, with a successful track record in interfacing with vendors.
• A resilient and agile leader that builds consensus and collaboration and can make difficult decisions and lead successfully in turbulent business environments and during times of complexity.
• A strong communicator who builds trust, credibility and respect while driving employee engagement across the division.
• This role is based in Stokesdale, North Carolina with a nearby facility in Colfax, NC. Occasional travel to the TX facility will be required. This is NOT a position that can be done remotely as we expect our OPS leaders to have a significant presence on the plant floor.