Shop Supervisor

Company Overview

American Bath Group (ABG) is a leading North American manufacturer of fiberglass and acrylic bath products, serving residential, commercial, and builder markets. The company operates a network of manufacturing facilities across the U.S. and Canada, producing a broad portfolio of bathing solutions focused on durability, quality, and consistent supply.

This role sits within our Aquatic product line, which specializes in fiberglass bath fixtures manufactured in a high-volume, production-driven environment.

The position is based in our Lancaster, Texas plant, where molds are continuously cycled through production. In this setting, mold condition is a critical driver of product quality, production flow, and labor efficiency. The mold shop is a core operational function, and its performance directly impacts how reliably the plant runs. This role offers direct ownership of that function and its contribution to overall plant performance.

The Opportunity

This role leads the mold shop and is responsible for improving execution across mold repair, preparation, and day-to-day mold-shop operations.

The opportunity is to step into a function where the core process exists, but stronger consistency and tighter execution are needed. The person in this role will help improve mold life, reduce unnecessary rework, and create a more reliable handoff from the mold shop into production. It is a hands-on leadership role for someone who wants to lead from the floor, build credibility with technicians, and make a measurable operating difference.

Success in Year One

Success in year one means the mold shop is operating with stronger process discipline, clearer accountability, and more consistent day-to-day execution.

Repaired and prepped molds should hold up more reliably in production, repeated reactive work should decrease, and production should see fewer mold-related interruptions. The team should be operating with one clear standard instead of relying on individual habits or informal workarounds. By the end of year one, the role should also be recognized as the clear operating leader of the mold shop, not simply a coordinator of the work.

The Mandate

The mandate is to bring control, consistency, and accountability to mold shop execution so repaired molds are restored and prepped correctly, last longer in production, and create less avoidable disruption downstream.

In practice, that means enforcing process discipline, improving the consistency of repair and preparation work, leading the team closely on the floor, and ensuring the mold shop supports production flow rather than slowing it down. This is not a purely administrative role and it is not a redesign-from-scratch assignment. It is a hands-on operating role centered on making an existing process work more reliably every day.

Year One Critical Outcomes

• Improve mold performance so repaired and prepped molds more consistently achieve the expected durability standard of roughly 10 business days
• Reduce repeated reactive mold work, including the current pattern where poorly processed molds can require re-waxing twice per day
• Standardize repair and prep execution across the mold shop team
• Improve mold-shop support to production by reducing mold-related disruption and improving readiness
• Establish clear day-to-day leadership of the function and reduce dependence on informal shop-floor leadership
• Strengthen consistency, accountability, and execution discipline across the full mold shop team
• Support more stable plant performance by removing one recurring source of operational friction

Why This Role Is Hard

This role is hard because it sits at the intersection of technical work, frontline leadership, and production pressure.

The challenge is not simply knowing mold work. The challenge is creating consistency in a live manufacturing environment where execution variance has real downstream consequences. The right person has to lead full-time on the floor, hold standards with experienced team members, address drift quickly, and improve outcomes without relying on heavy structure or long ramp time. Someone who prefers light-touch supervision or mostly office-based management is unlikely to enjoy this role.

Leadership Profile

The strongest candidate will be a hands-on manufacturing leader with a strong bias toward action, process discipline, and floor presence.

This person should be comfortable stepping into an existing operation, identifying where execution is breaking down, and tightening standards without overcomplicating the work. They should be able to lead experienced technicians with credibility, maintain accountability in a physically active environment, and operate independently without needing constant direction. The leadership style that fits best here is practical, visible, and consistent.

Experience Requirements

• 5 years of experience in mold maintenance, mold repair, fabrication, or a related manufacturing environment
• 2 years of supervisory or frontline leadership experience in manufacturing
• Proven experience enforcing process discipline and improving execution consistency on the floor
• Ability to lead in a hands-on, full-time production-floor environment
• Experience driving accountability with hourly or shop-floor teams
• Bilingual English/Spanish communication skills required
• Experience leading Spanish-speaking manufacturing employees strongly preferred
• Ability to conduct coaching, training, accountability, and performance conversations in both English and Spanish
• Willingness to travel for initial training

Preferred: experience in fiberglass, FRP, resin, composites, molded products, or a similar industrial manufacturing setting

Why the Right Candidate Will Be Excited

This role offers direct ownership over an important production-support function with visible impact on daily operations.

For the right person, that is the appeal. The work matters immediately, the mandate is clear, and better execution will show up in measurable ways. This is a good fit for someone who wants to lead from the front, improve how work gets done, and take responsibility for an area where stronger leadership can make a clear difference.

Why This Role Matters

Mold performance affects far more than the mold shop itself. When molds are repaired and prepared correctly, production runs more smoothly, rework decreases, and the operation becomes more reliable. When they are not, labor is consumed by repeated touch work and production absorbs the consequences.

This role matters because it helps determine which of those two conditions becomes normal. It is a leadership role with direct influence on execution quality, production support, and overall operating consistency.