Senior Vice President, Manufacturing
Listed on 2026-09-02
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Manufacturing / Production
Operations Management, Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma, Production Manager, Manufacturing & Industrial Operations
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Position:Senior Vice President, Manufacturing
Location: West Chester, OH
Job :2122
# of Openings:1
Position Description :
The Senior Vice President, Manufacturing is an executive leadership role responsible for the strategic direction, oversight, and continuous improvement of all manufacturing operations across the organization. The role has end-to-end accountability for the safety, quality, cost, delivery, inventory, and people performance of all manufacturing sites.
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer and serving as a member of the executive team, the SVP leads both traditional and advanced manufacturing capabilities—including automation, robotics integration, and intelligent manufacturing systems—while ensuring operational excellence, cost competitiveness, and world-class quality. The SVP partners with executive leadership to align manufacturing strategy with overall business objectives and drives a culture of safety, accountability, lean manufacturing and innovation throughout the organization.
The ideal candidate is an experienced multi-plant manufacturing executive who understands material handling, conveyance, or comparable engineered-to-order discrete manufacturing and can translate strategy into day-to-day operating discipline across multiple geographies and shifts.
Duties/ Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Multi-Plant Management
Define and execute the long-range manufacturing strategy across all plant locations, aligning capacity, capability, cost structure, and capital with long-term growth objectives.
Provide executive oversight for all manufacturing plants, ensuring consistent performance standards, operating procedures, and cultural alignment across sites.
Lead site P&L accountability across facilities, setting and delivering targets for revenue contribution, cost of goods, and capital efficiency.
Build and sustain a high-performance leadership team of plant managers and functional directors, fostering professional growth and succession planning.
Partner with the COO and executive team to translate corporate strategy into site-level operating plans, capital plans, and cost reduction commitments.
Multi-Plant Operational Performance
Own end-to-end accountability for safety, quality, delivery performance, cost, inventory, and productivity across all manufacturing sites Set and monitor common KPIs for safety, quality, delivery, cost, inventory, and morale (SQDCIM) across all plants, driving rigorous accountability at each level.
Establish and enforce common production planning, scheduling, materials, and execution standards across all plants.
Drive daily operating discipline—gemba walks, tiered huddles, abnormality response, and structured problem solving—and ensure each plant manager runs a credible management operating system.
Lead the manufacturing S&OP / SIOP cycle, owning the supply response to demand and ensuring plant-level executability.
Direct capacity planning and production scheduling to meet customer demand while optimizing resource utilization and minimizing cost.
Advanced Manufacturing & Technology
Lead the development and execution of advanced manufacturing initiatives including automation, robotics, IoT-enabled production systems, predictive maintenance, and digital twin technologies.
Oversee adoption of Industry 4.0 principles—connected factories, real-time OEE monitoring, and data-driven process optimization.
Partner with Engineering to evaluate and deploy emerging manufacturing technologies; establish a roadmap for ongoing capability advancement.
Drive standardization of manufacturing platforms and processes across plants to maximize efficiency,…
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