Vice President of Operations

LOCATION:

Fremont, OH

TRAVEL: 25
-30% between company sites, supply base and customers

The Vice President of Operations is responsible for the end-to-end operational performance of our client company, a privately held industrial components manufacturer, from the moment an order is received, through manufacturing, to final delivery of the product. They will lead, integrate, and develop Supply Chain, Planning, Inventory, and Manufacturing functions while driving efficiency and on-time delivery to ensure an outstanding customer experience.

The VP of Operations will be responsible for building the scalable infrastructure needed to support significant growth and long-term enterprise value. This newly created position will be a key member of the senior leadership team reporting to the CEO and will have oversight for operations across 3 locations (Fremont, OH; Detroit Metro, and Mexico).

• Leading Machining and Assembly, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain and Purchasing, Production Planning, and Inventory Control and Delivery, with clear cross-functional processes, accountability, and communication
• Owning safety, quality, cost, delivery, and customer satisfaction; standardizing best-cost manufacturing location and make-versus-buy decisions
• Reducing order-to-delivery lead time and improving on-time delivery and quality by addressing long-lead procurement and cross-functional handoffs
• Implementing production planning, sequencing, and scheduling systems to improve shop flow and predictability
• Leading efforts to build a culture of Continuous Improvement and data-driven problem at all three sites by embedding Lean manufacturing principles across all disciplines, beyond the shop floor and into engineering, planning, quality, and procurement
• Establishing standard work, visual management, and meaningful operational metrics to drive accountability and ongoing improvement
• Creating an integrated SIOP process that aligns demand forecasts, production capacity, procurement strategies and inventory investments across all locations
• Transforming procurement from a reactive, order-by-order function into a forecast-driven capability; establishing disciplined production planning, inventory control, and a strategic inventory approach that compress delivery time while controlling working capital
• Developing meaningful forecasting, inventory-turn, supplier-performance, and delivery metrics that enable proactive management of supply chain risks, improve material availability, and support predictable operational performance
• Partnering with Design Engineering to protect and advance the configure-to-order model
• Collaborating with the VP of Sales to establish a gated quote-to-order process
• Building the Operations organization for scale, including developing and recruiting the next layer of functional leadership as the business grows
• Establishing the operational infrastructure, capacity, facility, equipment, and workforce plans required to support the growth trajectory of the business

• Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business or related; advanced Degree and Lean/Six Sigma certifications beneficial
• Minimum 15 years’ experience in Operations Management across multiple functions (Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Planning, etc.)
• Experience with leading operations across multiple facilities, engineered products, and mixed model manufacturing environments. Deep experience in machining and assembly of industrial components.
• Proven experience utilizing and deploying Lean tools in manufacturing environments including Value Stream Mapping, KPI development, Strategy Deployment, 6S, Quick Changeover/SMED, Standard Work, FMEA,…