Director of Manufacturing

• ✓Provide strategic and operational leadership for manufacturing operations across all company facilities, establishing consistent expectations, priorities, and accountability for safety, quality, delivery, productivity, labor efficiency, and cost.
• ✓Partner closely with Manufacturing Engineering and Design Engineering to ensure manufacturability, effective execution of design intent, resolution of production issues, and successful implementation of process improvements.
• ✓Establish clear operational and production quality expectations and hold site leadership accountable for achieving established safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost objectives.
• ✓Ensure that plant management and production employees maintain compliance with ISO standards and other quality systems.
• ✓Ensure timely, high-quality product delivery by coordinating production capacity, resources, staffing, and priorities across facilities to align manufacturing output with customer demand.
• ✓Define expectations and accountability for RMA and rework processes to meet customer quality and delivery expectations in coordination with Engineering, Customer Success, Planning, and Supply Chain.
• ✓Oversee the development and maintenance of robust training and cross-training programs for production employees to build workforce flexibility, support succession planning, and ensure adherence to work instructions, quality standards, safety requirements, and productivity expectations.
• ✓Partner closely with Supply Chain, Logistics, Inventory, and Fulfillment to ensure end-to-end operational alignment and readiness.
• ✓Serve as a strategic operations partner to Sales, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and other organizational functions to align operational capabilities with business priorities and customer requirements.
• ✓Drive successful implementation of engineering changes and new product introductions through collaboration with Design Engineering, Production Control, Manufacturing Engineering, and Supply Chain.
• ✓Establish, monitor, and drive improvement against key operational performance indicators, including safety, quality, on-time delivery, productivity, labor efficiency, overtime, scrap/rework, capacity utilization, and manufacturing cost. Use performance data, cost tracking, and variance analysis to identify trends, address performance gaps, and drive continuous improvement
• ✓Provide leadership, oversight, and accountability for workplace safety performance and compliance across all manufacturing sites, ensuring alignment with OSHA

and internal safety policies and procedures.

• ✓Build organizational bench strength by coaching, mentoring, developing, and evaluating Plant Managers and other operations leaders and identifying high-potential talent for future leadership roles.
• ✓Evaluate and recommend changes to the operations organizational structure, leadership capacity, and staffing model to support company growth, operational effectiveness, and strategic objectives.
• ✓Oversee departmental budgets, capital expenditures, and resource planning to support company growth and cost efficiency.
• ✓Lead production capacity and workforce planning across facilities, partnering with site leadership and People/HR to evaluate staffing levels, skills, overtime, scheduling, labor utilization, and future workforce needs.
• ✓Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on standard work, operational efficiency, waste reduction, throughput, quality, labor productivity, and cost improvement across manufacturing locations.
• ✓Establish consistent operating practices, performance expectations, and management routines across manufacturing locations while recognizing appropriate site-specific operational needs.
• ✓Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, open communication, continuous improvement, and employee engagement where concerns and improvement opportunities can be raised and addressed constructively.
• ✓Oversee departmental budgets, capital expenditures, and resource planning to support company growth and cost efficiency.
• ✓Regular travel between company manufacturing facilities is required.
• ✓Perform other duties as assigned.

• ✓Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Engineering, Business, or a related field preferred; equivalent combination of education and relevant manufacturing leade