Production - Manager

Roughly 6% of American weddings run through our flowers. A meaningful share of them are handcrafted, made-to-order, and tied to a fixed date that cannot move...
...and this is the role that owns getting them out the door on-time. 

As Plant Manager, you run the day-to-day of both our manufacturing operation and our eCommerce fulfillment operation out of Monterrey, Nuevo León, leading roughly 100 people on-site.

Who are we?

At Sola Wood Flowers, we're transforming what artificial flowers can be; better flowers for less, with affordable, eco-friendly wooden flowers. We've grown to roughly 100 people in under 4 years and we're looking for the operations leader who can help us keep going.
Our core products are all handcrafted and they go into customers' real weddings, so our people take genuine pride in the work.

If you want to:

• Help shape a fast-growing company and scale it aggressively.
• Drive results alongside passionate, smart, hardworking, and fun people
• Work in an environment without politics or busy work
• Participate meaningfully in our growth through a clearly-defined compensation philosophy

…you've come to the right place.

Key Objectives:

• Run manufacturing, BIFM custom builds, and eCommerce fulfillment as one tightly-managed operation, hitting daily output and ship targets consistently.
• Hit or exceed the KPIs set with the management team across throughput, on-time ship rate, quality, and cost per unit.
• Lead and develop a workforce of roughly 100 people, building your front-line supervisor bench and the training programs that let the operation scale.
• Drive continuous improvement through disciplined lean manufacturing and kaizen, removing waste across both the line and the fulfillment floor.
• Run the operation on ERP and WMS data — using it to allocate labor, protect on-time delivery, and control cost.
• Own the HR and administrative load that comes with leading a ~100-person on-site workforce.

Requirements:

• Experience directly managing a workforce of roughly 50 to 100-plus people
• Strong, hands-on familiarity with lean manufacturing and kaizen
• Comfortable operating in ERPs, WMS, and the other software the business runs on
• Able to work on-site daily in Monterrey (Finsa Guadalupe)
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Willing to jump into any part of the business when that's what the operation needs
• Excellent with data, including Excel and Google Sheets and functions such as VLOOKUP
• Able to provide references
• Comfortable with a demanding pace and long hours
• Excellent cultural fit

What the job actually looks like:

• Setting and hitting daily production and ship targets across the line and the fulfillment floor, and course-correcting in real time when a number is at risk.
• Protecting quality and on-time delivery on every BIFM wedding order — each one made to order against a fixed date.
• Balancing bespoke custom builds against high-volume standard production and pick/pack/ship inside one operation, keeping both moving without one starving the other.
• Walking the floor to set the standard, coach front-line supervisors, and keep the team locked on that day's targets.
• Growing your supervisor bench and developing your best people into leaders so the operation can scale.
• Building training programs that get new hires productive fast and hold standards on both standard assembly and custom BIFM builds.
• Running kaizen events and standing up improvements that raise throughput and lower cost per unit without sacrificing quality.
• Pulling and reading ERP and WMS data daily to staff the line, balance workload, and catch bottlenecks before they cost you a ship day.
• Tracking on-time ship rate, output, quality, and efficiency KPIs, and reporting against the targets you set with the management team.
• Feeding structured feedback to the product team on packaging, materials, and buildability based on what you see on the floor.

How our hiring works & how we operate:

We define your KPIs and targets together, up front, so you know exactly what winning looks like before you start. The process opens with an initial soft interview, then a long-form live technical interview — average time-to-hire is roughly 8 to 10 days. We run the company on EOS and Traction (borrowing from Scaling Up and OKRs), and for this role we'll walk you through the long-term vision so you can see where the operation is headed.