Director, Operations

About All Clear Aerospace & Defense

All Clear Aerospace & Defense is the military aviation aftermarket industry’s leading provider of mission-ready solutions. We provide excellence in sustainment for the U.S. militaries and its allies. Headquartered in Miramar, Florida, All Clear’s sustainment solutions cover over 25 of the most utilized military aircraft platforms, supported with distribution agreements from leading OEMs, in-house and managed repair services, engineered products, manufacturing, and logistics solutions.

All Clear represents more than 30 years of defense aerospace sustainment experience and expertise, focused on the bigger mission mindset of keeping militaries mission ready. All Clear locations include Abu Dhabi, UAE;
Camarillo, CA;
Cambridge, UK;
Chatsworth, CA;
Greenville, SC;
Macon, GA;
Miramar, FL;
Seoul, S. Korea;
Singapore;
South San Francisco, CA; and Tokyo, Japan.

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The Director of Operations is responsible for leading Supply Chain, Planning, and Production for All Clear Aerospace & Defense’s Engineered Products business, with accountability for execution from customer demand and backlog through material planning, supplier performance, production scheduling, manufacturing, and delivery.

This role provides hands-on leadership across manufacturing operations, including sheet metal fabrication and forming, precision machining, welding, assembly, and related processes supporting aerospace and defense customers. The Director is responsible for ensuring material, capacity, labor, and production priorities are aligned to business and customer requirements while driving performance in safety, quality, delivery, inventory, productivity, cost, and manufacturing flow.

The position requires a strong floor presence, sound business judgment, effective cross-functional leadership, and the ability to build capable teams, establish clear accountability, identify operational constraints early, and drive sustainable improvement.

• Lead Supply Chain, Planning, and Production across the end-to-end operating cycle, establishing clear priorities, accountability, and performance expectations.
• Translate customer demand, backlog, and business priorities into executable material, capacity, staffing, and production plans.
• Drive performance in safety, quality, delivery, schedule attainment, productivity, inventory, cost, and customer commitments.
• Establish and sustain effective operating systems, including tiered daily management, KPI reviews, visual management, standard work, 5S/6S, and structured problem solving.
• Identify and resolve material, capacity, supplier, quality, and production constraints through disciplined escalation, root-cause analysis, and timely corrective action.
• Apply Lean principles, Kaizen, and data-driven improvement to increase flow, capacity, productivity, and overall operating effectiveness.
• Lead and develop operational leaders, building accountability, succession depth, and a culture of ownership, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Quality, Program Management, Sales, Finance, and other functions to align execution with customer and business priorities.

• Lead daily manufacturing execution across machining, sheet metal fabrication and forming, welding, assembly, and related production operations.
• Own the planning and production-control process from customer demand through manufacturing completion and delivery.
• Establish achievable production schedules based on backlog priorities, material availability, labor, capacity, tooling, and other operational constraints.
• Ensure manufacturing standards,…