Director of Operations
Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic operational leadership across multiple U.S. manufacturing sites.
- Oversee and support site-level leadership, including a highly tenured Director of Manufacturing.
- Lead integration efforts for multiple acquired companies, including process and cultural alignment.
- Drive standardization, operational harmonization, and cross-site consistency.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, and continuous improvement.
- Lead Lean, Six Sigma, and CI initiatives across all manufacturing locations.
- Champion people-centered change management in a long-tenured, relationship-driven environment.
- Build trust through strong communication, collaboration, and follow-through.
- Partner cross-functionally with engineering, supply chain, controls/electrical teams, and corporate leadership.
- Align plant operations with expectations of a larger parent organization.
- Support operational reporting and metrics from a higher-level, global perspective.
- Navigate cultural differences between a legacy, family-oriented manufacturing environment and a large public corporate structure.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree required (Associate's considered with exceptional experience).
- 10+ years of progressive operations leadership within manufacturing.
- Experience leading multi-site operations across the U.S.
- Demonstrated M&A integration experience (process, systems, and cultural alignment).
- Strong strategic operations management background (beyond single-plant leadership).
- Lean Six Sigma experience; Black Belt preferred.
- Proven experience leading change in a stable, long-tenured workforce.
- Manufacturing experience in any product-based industry (plastics, metals, mechanical products, etc.).
- Ability to build trust, communicate effectively at all levels, and lead without disrupting established culture.
- Patient, collaborative leadership style-must avoid aggressive or abrupt change approaches.
- Comfortable working fully onsite in a casual, down‑to‑earth environment.
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