Manufacturing Operations Manager

GTI is a contract manufacturing partner supporting customers in renewable energy, power generation, infrastructure, and industrial systems.

We fabricate custom designed, purpose-built enclosures and skids for our customers and perform mechanical and electrical integration in-house, delivering a true turn-key product to our customers. Our scope spans Engineering, prototype builds, through full production, requiring teams that can move fast, adapt, and execute with precision.

GTI Values:
Safety I Quality I Customer Obsession I Speed I Agility

We're hiring a Production Manager to own the shop floor for one of our manufacturing value streams from the moment material is released to the moment a finished product ship. This is a hands-on leadership role with real visibility: you'll run production day to day, and you'll be the connective tissue between production and the teams around it - fabrication, welding, engineering, and quality — without those functions reporting to you directly.

If you're a strong production leader who wants more scope, more cross-functional influence, and a direct line to outcomes, this is that next step

Responsibilities

• Run daily production operations for your value stream — staffing, scheduling, throughput, and output — from material release through final shipment
• Lead and develop production supervisors and their teams across a 25–100+ person production organization, building accountability-driven frontline leadership
• Own the safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance of production within your value stream
• Drive manufacturing readiness for new product introductions, working ahead of ramp to catch issues before they hit the floor
• Identify and remove production bottlenecks; run Lean tools like value stream mapping and Kaizen events to keep work moving
• Maintain OSHA compliance and lead a visible, hands-on safety culture on the floor

This is a production leadership role, not a role that manages every discipline in the building. You won't have fabrication, welding, mechanical assembly, engineering, or quality reporting to you — each of those has its own lead. What you will have is real influence over how they work together, because production sits at the center of the value stream and everything upstream and downstream affects your numbers.

Day to day, you'll coordinate closely with:

• Metal Fabrication — sequencing and hand-offs into production
• Welding Operations — scheduling and quality hand-offs
• Mechanical & Final Assembly — flow and staging
• Manufacturing Engineering — process changes and NPI readiness
• Quality Operations — closing the loop on defects and rework
• Material Flow / Supply Chain — inbound timing and shortages

You're the person who makes sure a job moves cleanly from one discipline to the next — resolving the friction between teams so nothing stalls on the floor.

Requirements

• 7–10 years in manufacturing leadership, including experience directly managing production supervisors
• Background in contract manufacturing (EMS, industrial, or engineered-to-order environments)
• Working knowledge of metal fabrication, welding, and assembly operations — you don't need to have run these functions, but you need to speak the language
• Lean manufacturing fundamentals (value stream mapping, Kaizen, root-cause problem solving)
• Comfortable working in an ERP/MRP system (SAP a plus, not required)

Experience leading operations involving:

• Mechanical Assembly
• Metal Fabrication
• Welding
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Quality
• High-Volume Manufacturing
• Strong understanding of manufacturing throughput optimization.
• Experience partnering with Program Management on customer-driven manufacturing programs.
• Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles, Value Stream Mapping, Value Stream Maps, material flow optimization, organizational streamlining, and Value Chain Management.
• ERP/MRP experience (SAP preferred).
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Preferred

• Experience with complex, engineered-to-order products

We are particularly interested in leaders who have manufactured complex integrated products such as:

• Modular Data Centers
• Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
• Power…