Core Responsibilities

• Lead all day-to-day manufacturing operations, including production, production control, scheduling, purchasing, engineering support, maintenance coordination, and environmental health and safety.
• Establish and maintain a safety-first culture that ensures compliance with company policies and all applicable regulatory requirements while reducing risk, incidents, and near misses.
• Drive lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives across the business, including waste reduction, flow improvement, standard work, process standardization, visual management, root cause problem-solving, and productivity improvement.
• Own operational performance metrics for safety, quality, delivery, inventory, labor efficiency, scrap, productivity, and cost, and implement actions that improve results.
• Partner with finance and commercial leadership to improve gross margins through labor efficiency, material cost control, sourcing discipline, throughput improvement, pricing support, and reduced rework and warranty exposure.
• Oversee production control processes to align capacity, materials, labor, and schedules with customer demand and revenue objectives.
• Lead purchasing and supplier performance efforts to improve cost, quality, delivery, and supply continuity while supporting strategic sourcing and inventory optimization.
• Partner with engineering to support manufacturability, product quality, design for production, new product introduction, and timely resolution of technical issues affecting operations.
• Develop and manage operating budgets, capital expenditure plans, staffing plans, and operational forecasts that support business goals and return on investment.
• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing operations organization with clear accountability, strong communication, and succession planning.
• Provide timely and accurate reporting to executive leadership on plant performance, key risks, improvement initiatives, and progress against financial and operational goals.

Key Performance Priorities

• Improve safety performance and strengthen compliance through proactive leadership, training, and accountability.
• Increase plant throughput and on-time delivery while reducing lead times and schedule disruption.
• Drive year-over-year margin improvement through labor productivity, material cost reduction, inventory control, and waste elimination.
• Elevate and expand lean systems and management routines that create sustainable operational discipline and continuous improvement.
• Improve cross-functional coordination among operations, purchasing, engineering, and finance to support profitable growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field required; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience, including leadership of multi-functional operations teams in an industrial or heavy equipment manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated success leading production, production control, purchasing, engineering coordination, and EHS in a manufacturing setting.
• Strong knowledge of lean manufacturing, continuous improvement methods, KPI management, and operational problem-solving.
• Proven ability to improve margins through cost control, productivity gains, sourcing discipline, and operational execution.
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, capital planning, labor and overhead management, and inventory performance.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and change management skills, with the ability to engage both shop floor and executive stakeholders.
• Experience with ERP-driven planning, scheduling, and materials management systems preferred.

Leadership Competencies

Reporting Structure