Director of Operations

Reports to: EVP, Global Operations & Platform Integration

Location: Greater Chicago Area

Compensation: $130K+ Annually

Own day-to-day operational execution at our flagship manufacturing facility, deliver shipment and revenue performance for the multiple brands operating on-site, and help build the systems, processes, and operational playbook that make this facility the benchmark site for integration, scalability, and operational excellence across the entire enterprise.

The Director of Operations is the senior operating leader responsible for day-to-day execution across our primary manufacturing and assembly facility, which houses multiple distinct industrial product brands and consolidated business units. This role owns manufacturing, supply chain, planning, service, quality, and continuous improvement at the operating level.

This facility is intended to become the company’s gold standard for operational excellence. The Director is responsible for helping build, refine, and institutionalize the site's operating playbook so that newly acquired businesses can be integrated into the facility quickly, and the same disciplines can be applied across satellite operations.

While reporting to the EVP of Global Operations & Platform Integration, this role carries direct exposure to the board and executive group because the facility's performance is central to the company’s buy-and-build operating model. A major upcoming business consolidation into this site serves as the first major footprint of that model, and this role is expected to help make it successful, repeatable, and measurable.

• Own day-to-day manufacturing, supply chain, planning, service, quality, and delivery performance for all site-based brands and operations.
• Drive execution against shipment schedules, plant-loading plans, labor and material readiness, and customer delivery commitments.
• Provide visible control over constraints, recovery plans, and the practical actions required to deliver monthly and quarterly targets.

• Own shipment and revenue performance across all brands and business lines consolidated into the site.
• Partner with Finance and the EVP on standard costing, cost visibility, margin performance, inventory management, and operational spend discipline.
• Provide weekly and monthly visibility into shipment status, revenue risk, margin risk, and corrective actions.

• Help define and refine the site operating model so it becomes the corporate benchmark for process discipline, KPI rigor, planning cadence, and execution accountability.
• Build operating rhythms that are robust enough to support both current brands and future consolidated businesses.
• Translate corporate expectations into practical site-level behavior, operating reviews, dashboards, and accountability structures.

• Help drive the operational playbook for the facility, including the systems, data, workflows, standard work, and process expectations required to pull acquired businesses into the site quickly and effectively.
• Ensure the playbook can also be applied in satellite business operations where full consolidation into the main site is not the right answer.
• Use the upcoming major brand integration as the first footprint for proving, refining, and documenting the playbook model.

• Execute supply chain and planning disciplines that improve lead times, material availability, inventory turns, supplier performance, and manufacturing flow.
• Lead operational initiatives to reduce friction, shorten cycle times, and improve throughput without compromising quality or delivery reliability.
• Work within SIOP / S&OP and plant‑planning structures to ensure execution matches forecasted demand and commercial commitments.

• Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Service, and Finance to align customer commitments, new product launches, engineering changes, and plant capability.
• Participate in business and…