Vice President of Manufacturing

Job ID: 521958

Ash Grove family of companies, including Ash Grove Cement Company, Ash Grove South Texas, LLC, Sapphire Americas LLC, Oldcastle Cement Holdings, Houston Cement Company, and Suwanee American Cement Company, is one of North America’s leading cement manufacturers, with a legacy of innovation and excellence dating back to 1882. The company operates 12 world-class cement plants and a vast network of 41 terminals across the United States and Canada. Renowned for its forward-thinking approach, Ash Grove combines technical expertise, robust safety standards, and empowered talent to deliver high performance and better serve our customers. At Ash Grove, we stand together to reinvent the way our world is built.

To learn more about us go to www.ashgrove.com

At Ash Grove Cement, people are our first priority. We offer a complete benefits package to include:

Company Benefits:

• Family Culture – We treat our team like family
• Medical/Dental/Vision/Prescription
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 11 Paid Holidays per year
• 401k with 5% company match & profit sharing
• Opportunities for Internal Mobility
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Training Provided
• Tuition Reimbursement Program - We'll assist with continuing education that aligns with your career goals
• Employee Assistance Program
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Short- & Long-Term Disability
• Company Discounts on products, goods, services, electronics, automotive, travel & more!
• Opportunities for Community Engagement
• Potential Relocation Packages

Summary:

The Vice President, Manufacturing – Cement serves as the senior cement plant operational leader responsible for driving manufacturing excellence across a large and complex regional footprint. This role directly supports our mission to Rebuild way our world is built by ensuring our cement manufacturing operations achieve world-class safety, production reliability, product quality, cost leadership, and environmental stewardship. Working in close partnership with the Region President, the VP Manufacturing, provides leadership to Plant Managers, aligns operational performance with financial goals, aligns with the commercial team on customer service and product solutions, and drives a culture of safety, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement. The VP Manufacturing oversees all manufacturing activities including production, maintenance, engineering, capital planning, logistics, talent development, and compliance with regulatory and corporate standards, while also supporting growth through the future by implementation of new cementitious products, identifying and delivering strategic CX and fostering the development of key talent within the organization.

What you’ll be contributing:

• Promote and follow all plant safety guidelines.
• Establishes, communicates, and assigns job responsibilities, goals, and performance standards for direct reports. Ensure job responsibilities, goals, and performance standards for plant employees have been established and communicated. · Champions a world‑class safety and people driven culture, ensuring adherence to the CRH Code of Business Conduct, MSHA, environmental, and internal safety standards.
• Provides strategic leadership for all cement plants in the region, ensuring alignment with corporate goals and operational excellence standards.
• Creating new and better customer-focused ways for the organization to be successful.
• Attracting, growing, retaining and deploying people to enhance performance, empower talent, and build capability for tomorrow.
• Influences the organization to approach its delivery based on customer input and value-adding solutions. Contributes to building an organization’s customer-centric capability.
• Recognizes the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to the organization, seeking out, embracing and aligning differences to ensure that all talent flourishes.
• Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances. Drives operational reliability through proactive maintenance strategies, asset care programs, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Oversees production planning, inventory management, and coordination with Supply Chain and Commercial teams to meet customer demand and optimize cost‑per‑ton.
• Partners with Finance to develop and manage annual budgets, capital plans, and long‑range operational forecasts.
• Evaluates and approves major capital investments, ensuring strong ROI and alignment with long‑term asset strategy.
• Ensures plant compliance with all federal, state/provincial, and local environmental requirements and corporate sustainability initiatives.
• Conducts ongoing operational reviews, including dashboards, audits, KPIs, and site visits, to ensure performance consistency and rapid issue resolution.
• Collaborates cross‑functionally with Technical Services, Quality, HR, Environmental, and Commercial teams to support customer solutions, regional and corporate initiatives.
• Identifies and mitigates operational risks, while promoting technological advancements that enhance safety, cost, efficiency, and environmental stewardship.
• Maintains strong external relationships with industry associations, regulators, suppliers, and engineering partners.
• Serves as a member of the Region Leadership team to accomplish strategic objectives, long-term growth aspirations and people's development across the Ash Grove platform.
• Additional duties as assigned by supervisor

To succeed in this position, you will need:

• Minimum of a 4 year Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Geology or Related Field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in leadership role in cement manufacturing. Experience leading multiple large-scale facilities across broad geographic regions
• Minimum of 10 years in demonstrated success in P&L oversight, budget management, capital planning, strategic planning and operational transformation. This includes the ability to coach high performing teams and build succession pipelines.
• Ability to read, write and understand warning labels, instructions, signs, etc.

Compensation:

• Compensation: ($265,500-$373,200)
• Eligible for yearly bonus

What’s next for you?

We provide stability and advancement opportunities across North America. Use our tuition reimbursement program to help you meet your career goals.

The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive. The physical demands, working environment, and other conditions of employment listed in this document are representative of but are not intended to provide an exhaustive list of the requirements for positions in this classification. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

What CRH Offers You

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• An inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

If you’re up for a rewarding challenge, we invite you to take the first step and apply today! Once you click apply now, you will be brought to our official employment application. Please complete your online profile and it will be sent to the hiring manager. Our system allows you to view and track your status 24 hours a day. Thank you for your interest!

Ash Grove Cement, a CRH Company, is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

EOE/Vet/Disability

CRH is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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