Operations Director

Benefits

• Competitive Salary + Bonus Potential.
• Paid Time Off, 401K Matching, Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits.
• High-growth organization with advancement opportunities.

The Operations Director is responsible for leading day-to-day manufacturing execution across assigned Maverick Power production operations, ensuring safe, predictable, and scalable performance that supports growth, on-time delivery, and margin objectives.

• Operational Leadership & Execution
  • Lead daily and weekly manufacturing execution across assigned operations, ensuring production plans, safety expectations, and quality standards are achieved.
  • Translate company and functional priorities into clear expectations, operating rhythms, and measurable targets for supervisors, managers, and site leaders.
  • Drive accountability for schedule attainment, labor productivity, throughput, and recovery actions when performance falls behind plan.
  • Escalate material risks, staffing constraints, quality concerns, and capacity issues early with recommended actions and tradeoffs.
• Coach and develop frontline and mid-level operations leaders to improve decision-making, follow-through, and consistency of execution.
• Establish and maintain a common operating cadence, including tier meetings, production reviews, KPI visibility, and disciplined follow-up on commitments.
• Reinforce standard work for production leadership, including shift startup, issue escalation, handoffs, and end-of-day performance review.
• Promote a culture where problems are surfaced professionally, root causes are addressed, and teams solve issues without blame or last-minute heroics.
• Production Flow, Throughput & Continuous Improvement
  • Improve production flow, cycle time, labor efficiency, and execution stability through practical process discipline and structured problem solving.
  • Partner with Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, and Planning to remove bottlenecks and improve line readiness, material flow, and work sequencing.
  • Support production ramps, new product introductions, and capacity changes by helping teams stabilize processes while protecting safety, quality, and inventory discipline.
  • Champion Lean behaviors and continuous improvement efforts that simplify work, reduce waste, and make performance more predictable.
• Safety, Quality & Cross-Functional Partnership
  • Model and enforce a safety-first mindset in all operating decisions, with zero tolerance for shortcuts that increase risk.
  • Partner closely with Quality to ensure workmanship standards, issue containment, and corrective actions are integrated into daily execution.
  • Work cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Engineering, Planning, and customer-facing teams to align production priorities with customer commitments.
  • Support annual planning, capacity discussions, and staffing plans with grounded operational input from the floor and site level.
• Leadership, Culture & Talent Development
  • Build a high-accountability, team-oriented environment that reflects Maverick Power’s core values:
    Deliver 'WOW!', Get the Job Done, Win as a Team, and Bring Your Best.
  • Develop leaders who can balance urgency with judgment, hold standards, and communicate clearly through change.
  • Recognize and reinforce behaviors that improve safety, execution reliability, and collaboration across shifts, departments, and sites.

• Bachelor’s degree required, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Industrial Management, or a related field preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive manufacturing or operations leadership in discrete manufacturing environments.
• Demonstrated success leading plant, value-stream, or multi-department operations teams in high-mix, engineered-product, ETO/CTO, or similar manufacturing settings.
• Experience improving on-time delivery, throughput, labor productivity, and operating discipline without compromising safety or quality.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing execution, production flow, Lean principles, and continuous improvement.
• Experience using operational KPIs to manage performance, including throughput, labor productivity, backlog, schedule attainment, and quality indicators.
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