Plant Manager

Build your Career with an Industry Leader About EMI: EMI, a division of LSI Corporation and part of Retail Solutions, is a leading provider of customer millwork display solutions. EMI Industries is an award-winning metal and millwork manufacturer of standard and customized fixtures, displays and equipment for the restaurant, supermarket and convenience store industries. With five manufacturing locations across the country and 400,000 sq. ft. of manufacturing and warehouse space, EMI provides a convenient regional source for millwork, metal and refrigeration products, with national and international capabilities. LSI Industries, Inc., an Industry leader headquartered in Cincinnati, is a publicly held company traded over the NASDAQ Stock Exchange under the symbol LYTS. The company manufactures advanced lighting, graphics, and display solutions across strategic vertical markets. The company’s American-made products, which include non-residential indoor and outdoor lighting, print graphics, digital graphics, refrigerated and custom displays, help create value for customer brands and enhance the consumer experience. LSI also provides comprehensive project management services in support of large-scale product rollouts. The company employs approximately 3,000 people at 23 manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Canada. Additional information about LSI is available at www.lsicorp.com. The Cranston, Rhode Island manufacturing location is a strategic component of the millwork and metal work components of customer solutions. With a focus on manufacturing display cases and related products, EMI RI contributes to the success of restaurants, supermarkets, and convenience stores nationwide. We are looking for a Plant Manager to support our EMI team in Cranston RI. Position Overview: The Plant Manager leads all day-to-day operations at EMI Industries’ Cranston, Rhode Island manufacturing facility, a project-based custom metal and millwork plant of 120+ employees. Work is engineered-to-order: nearly every job is built to a unique customer drawing rather than a repeating standard unit. This role owns safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people performance across receiving, inventory, metal fabrication, wood millwork, assembly, finishing, and shipping . The Plant Manager must be technically credible in either metal fabrication or wood millwork and willing to become proficient in both, convert custom drawings into executable shop plans, and promote a high-performance culture grounded in continuous improvement and LSI’s core tenets: Sense of Urgency, Attention to Detail, and Respect Others. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Provide strategic and tactical leadership for all plant operations, including receiving, warehouse and inventory management, metal fabrication, wood millwork, assembly, finishing, shipping, and supply chain. Plan and sequence production from backlog and customer promise dates. Balance custom jobs through shared equipment and skilled trades so neither the metal shop nor the millwork shop is starved of work or capacity. Translate customer drawings, specifications, and engineering packages into shop-ready work, including travelers, cut lists, weldment sequences, hardware kits, and pack lists. Stop work when information is incomplete or unbuildable. Foster a culture of safety that meets OSHA and company standards. Lead safety walks, daily safety reviews, and incident investigations with root-cause follow-through. Address hazards unique to a mixed metal and wood plant, including welding, grinding, forming, cutting, woodworking machinery, dust, finishing, and material handling. Ensure preventative maintenance is executed so equipment uptime supports custom promise dates. Ensure every job is built to the drawing and to customer specification. Read and interpret job orders, technical drawings, weld symbols, millwork elevations, hardware schedules, and finish specifications. Partner with Engineering and Sales on design…

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