Jobs at Associated Materials Innovations

Fabricates, repairs, modifies, sharpens, and maintains tooling, dies, blades, fixtures, and replacement components for vinyl siding extrusion equipment. Operates conventional machine-shop equipment, performs precision grinding and machining, interprets drawings, reverse-engineers parts, and inspects components using precision measuring tools. Supports Production and Maintenance troubleshooting, minimizes downtime, maintains tool-room equipment, and follows plant safety and quality requirements.

Manages site environment, health, and safety programs in an industrial manufacturing facility. Ensures OSHA, EPA, NFPA, permitting, and reporting compliance; leads risk assessments, incident investigations, emergency preparedness, EHS training, contractor safety, environmental permits, sustainability initiatives, and safety culture improvements. Uses EHS data, KPIs, and analytics to identify risks and implement corrective actions while partnering with operations, employees, executives, regulators, and contractors.

Leads strategic pricing and commercial analytics, including financial modeling, pricing recommendations, KPI reporting, executive dashboards, Deal Desk and Bid Desk support, annual price increase initiatives, and cross-functional pricing projects. Analyzes customer, product, channel, competitive, margin, and profitability data while improving processes through automation, pricing technology, business intelligence, and AI capabilities.

Supports daily window manufacturing operations by coordinating workflow, monitoring production targets, conducting quality checks, enforcing safety requirements, training and cross-training employees, addressing bottlenecks, and communicating with maintenance, quality, supervisors, and support teams. Helps achieve production, quality, delivery, and HPU goals while promoting teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Leads end-to-end supply chain planning, including demand, supply, production, inventory, and analytics. Develops planning strategies, policies, forecasts, schedules, inventory targets, performance dashboards, and continuous-improvement initiatives. Partners with manufacturing, procurement, sales, finance, operations, and customer service to improve service levels, reduce costs and lead times, optimize capacity and working capital, and manage supplier escalations. Builds organizational capability and leads planning teams.

Leads industrial engineering and continuous improvement initiatives in a manufacturing plant. Responsibilities include Lean and Six Sigma implementation, time studies, labor standards, line balancing, capacity planning, process and material-flow optimization, operational metric analysis, dashboards, cost reduction, project management, standard work documentation, and employee training.

Leads tooling design and technical teams supporting extrusion manufacturing across multiple plants. Oversees machinists and technicians, budgets, vendors, schedules, and production coordination. Designs custom extrusion tools using CAD/CAM software, partners with production and quality teams to resolve manufacturing challenges, and improves reliability, safety, and efficiency through lean manufacturing. Supports capabilities including CNC machining, wire EDM, welding, heat treatment, 3D printing, scanning, and traditional machining.

Audits products and manufacturing processes, verifies product quality, identifies and reports defects or equipment concerns, records inspection data, and supports operator training. The role performs regular product and process checks, follows safety and PPE requirements, cross-trains across production-line functions, and may cover end-of-line production duties. Work occurs in a manufacturing plant with noise, variable temperatures, standing, lifting, and other physical demands.

Supervise daily manufacturing production operations, hourly employees, staffing, workflow, safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance. Monitor production metrics, enforce OSHA and quality compliance, coordinate with maintenance and supply chain, manage materials and equipment uptime, and support root-cause investigations. Lead Lean, Six Sigma, 5S, and continuous improvement initiatives while developing employees and preparing for future operations leadership.

Operate equipment used in vinyl extrusion manufacturing, safely handle materials, inspect products and equipment for quality issues, pack and label finished goods, maintain housekeeping standards, follow safety procedures, and cross-train across production lines. The role requires dependability, teamwork, English comprehension, hand-tool use, tape-measure proficiency, flexibility, and the ability to lift up to 50 pounds.

Leads plant quality compliance, product and process improvement, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, customer quality reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives. Oversees quality systems using ISO/QS/TS principles, Lean/Six Sigma methods, SPC, CpK analysis, standard work, and layered process audits. Ensures compliance with government and industry standards while improving manufacturing process capability and product quality.

Leads indirect procurement and strategic sourcing across North American facilities. Develops category strategies, consolidates fragmented spend, negotiates supplier contracts, manages supplier relationships and risk, builds cost models, conducts RFx processes, and monitors pricing, performance, compliance, and market trends. Partners cross-functionally to improve total cost of ownership, achieve savings, ensure supply continuity, and implement procurement process improvements.

Lead plant quality and compliance, drive product/process improvements, conduct root-cause investigations and corrective actions, deploy Lean/Six Sigma and SPC/CpK tools, expand ISO/QS/TS quality systems, and ensure customer satisfaction and regulatory compliance in a manufacturing environment.

Perform final visual and functional inspections of finished products, verify specifications using gauges and test stands, record results and non-conformances, ensure proper labeling/packaging, communicate quality issues, follow safety and SOPs, and support continuous improvement.

Lead and implement continuous improvement and lean initiatives across manufacturing to reduce waste, lower costs, increase capacity, and improve quality. Coach teams, analyze processes and data, establish KPIs and standardized work, support capital justification, and drive sustainable change across the plant.

Perform physical testing and record results per ASTM standards, maintain ISO 9001 and calibration systems, conduct random product and safety audits, manage inspection logs and NCM processes, train operators, and occasionally act as production supervisor after one year.