Director - Operations
MillerKnoll · Buffalo, NY
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Production
- Base pay
- $145k–$155k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 10+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 16 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level production role at MillerKnoll (industrial) in Buffalo, NY. Being a part of Geiger means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand.
- They ask for
- 10+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Automation, Machining
- Base pay
- $145k–$155k
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Production Engineer roles in New York: typical posted base $118k–$158k. This one lists $145k–$155k.
Median of the low and high ends of 11 live postings that list pay, out of 17 production engineer openings in New York, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 16 other live production postings in New York.
- Base pay
- About 9% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- Typical (10+ years)
Typical $118k–$158k, from 8 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 10+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Lean 59%
- EHS / safety 47%
- ✓ Team leadership 47%
- Root cause 41%
- Six Sigma 35%
- Black Belt 29%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
Stands out: this posting asks for Automation, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
At a glance
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How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Production team at MillerKnoll
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- 2
Send a short, curious note
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- 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
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- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
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Bring proof to the interview
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Full description from MillerKnollAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Position summary
Leads overall manufacturing operations for Geiger Buffalo. Responsible for machining, fabricating, assembling, processing operations and other ancillary functions required for production. Forecasts, develops, implements and administers plans for efficient facilities, staffing and material utilization.
Essential functions
- ◆Leads Buffalo Geiger operations for assigned facility. Ensures compliance with Millerknoll policies/practices and standards.
- ◆Participates in the development of corporate manufacturing strategies and develops a plant specific strategy to align.
- ◆Achieves exceptional levels of customer service and delivery reliability with highly variable demand patterns and product variation.
- ◆Maintains high standards of quality, follows agreed standards, and introduces improvement initiatives to address problems and ensure high standards are maintained.
- ◆Achieves a safety culture which ensures high levels of employee engagement, addresses risk and strives towards an accident free environment.
- ◆Achieves exceptional levels of employee engagement through regular and open communication, two way feedback at all levels and an environment where issues can be openly raised and positively received at all levels of leadership.
- ◆Ensures a consistent and high level employee experience is achieved across the facility.
- ◆Coaches and mentors team member’s; designs and delegates appropriate workloads; builds development plans to ensure career success; participates in succession planning activities.
- ◆Delegates authority to key supervision in production, production control, methods, cost accounting, maintenance and related operations.
- ◆Ensures that objectives are achieved on a timely basis at the lowest cost (within financial resources), while maintaining quality requirements.
- ◆Follow all MillerKnoll safety policies and protocols
- ◆Additional
responsibilities
as requested by Management to achieve business objectives.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The
requirements
listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering or related discipline. Master’s degree preferred.
- ✓Significant equivalent operational experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- ✓10+ years of experience in progressively responsible production management positions, specifically experience with manufacturing and assembly of highly variable products on relatively short lead-times with significant fluctuations in volumes.
- ✓7+ years of managing leaders (supervisors, managers, or department heads).
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Why join us?
Geiger furnishes the modern office with beautiful solutions for private offices, conference rooms, collaborative spaces, and more. Geiger designs play an important role in creating environments where people want to be—spaces that stimulate creative and analytical thinking, strengthen organizational culture, and communicate trust to clients and visitors.
Our purpose is design for the good of humankind. It’s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Geiger means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Geiger to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- •Successful experience with change management principles and demonstrated ability to drive and manage the change process from strategic planning through implementation and follow-thru.
- •Strong relationship and consensus-building skills are necessary to manage projects in a complex matrixed environment. Demonstrated ability to lead, influence and work with all levels in the organization.
- •Ability to use a broad business acumen and holistic perspective to see opportunities and risks of potential trade-offs.
- •Demonstrated excellent coaching, mentoring, and people development skills.
- •Ability to think strategically and execute tactically.
- •Demonstrated outstanding written/verbal communication skills, and a proven capability to present complex concepts in a concise and understandable way to a variety of audiences including the highest level of the organization.
- •Ability to effectively use office automation / communication software and tools used in the HMI office environment.
- •Exhibits high personal performance standards, the desire and ability to continuously learn and must be results oriented.
- •Demonstrated leadership competence as defined by Executive Competencies, including the proven ability to effectively focus resources to implement a business strategy, generate excitement and commitment around the vision and goals and drive innovation and change.
- •Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodations.
Physical work environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodations.
Physical Demands
- •Ability to sit for extended periods of time while working at a computer, attending meetings, reviewing reports, and conducting virtual conferences
- •Frequent use of computers, including typing, viewing monitors, and using standard office equipment.
- •Ability to frequently stand and walk throughout manufacturing, production, warehouse, and shipping areas.
- •Must be able to perform duties while wearing all necessary Perso