Frame & Truss Manager - Finlayson's
Frame & Truss Manager
Full-Time | Zillmere | Mon-Fri
We're on the lookout for an experienced Frame & Truss Manager to take ownership of a high-performing department - driving sales, operational excellence, and team development while delivering outstanding customer outcomes.
This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll oversee a small team and the overall end-to-end Frame & Truss operation, from estimating and detailing through to production and project delivery.
What you'll be doing
- Lead, coach and develop a cross-functional team across Estimating, Detailing, Production and Scheduling
- Work closely with the sales team to build on relationships with existing customers and drive new business
- Maintain strong relationships with clients and industry partners across all project stages
- Ensure products are delivered on time, on budget and to a high quality
- Lead the estimating & detailing teams both technically and commercially ensuring accuracy, pricing effectiveness and upskilling team members
- Drive consistent and optimised scheduling and deliveries
- Review the P&L and identify and implement areas of cost reduction or improved efficiency
- Develop budgets and forecasts and report on any variances
- Ensure accuracy across pricing, costing and design databases
- Manage all plant, equipment and assets to ensure safety, compliance and operational readiness
- Lead a safety first attitude across the site
- Provide technical and commercial oversight on quotations and design solutions
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives across estimating, detailing, production, scheduling & deliveries (systems and processes)
What you'll bring
- Proven experience in managing a Frame & Truss (or a similar manufacturing) site a must (5+years)
- Experience with MiTek Sapphire a plus
- Strong leadership background with the ability to motivate and develop teams
- Solid commercial acumen with experience managing budgets and performance outcomes
- Ability to implement process improvements and drive operational efficiency
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders internally and externally
- Hands-on, solutions-focused approach with strong decision-making capability
- Experience with estimating/design software and interpreting architectural & engineering plans
- Current driver's licence with flexibility to travel when required
Why you'll love it
We're proud to offer a workplace that supports your well-being, growth, and belonging:
Extra Leave: Enjoy a 5th week of annual leave, 2 well-being days, plus 1 volunteer day annually
Career Growth: Endless learning and development opportunities
Parental Leave: 12 weeks of gender-neutral paid leave for primary carers
Inclusive Culture: Bronze Employer for LGBTQ Inclusion
Neutral Pay Gap: Gender pay gap under 5% (WGEA 2024-2025)
Mental Health: Gold accreditation by Mental Health Australia
Flexibility: Flex Ready and Family Friendly Workplace accredited
About Us
Finlayson's Timber and Hardware is a 150 year old, 4th generation, family orientated business who specialise in timber, manufacturing and hardware for the QLD market. Our staff are our key point of difference; longevity, experience and culture drive our business forward.
Loyal, hardworking and very knowledgeable priding themselves on top flight customer service, our team are specialists in various fields from flooring to mouldings' to joinery to cladding! Our key customer base ranges from high end builder and renovation specialists, to commercial projects, to project builders to owner builders. Backed by a market leader in the hardware space, we have the resources of a large business but the agility and nimbleness of independence.
Finlayson's is part of the Total Tools Hardware Group and is a wholly owned entity of Metcash Limited.
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