Vice President of Operations

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Plant 8 - Goshen, IN 46526, Position Type:
Salary, Genesis Products is looking for a VP of Operations to take a strong manufacturing foundation and turn it into a competitive weapon. This is a new, company-wide role created for one reason: our customers move fast, our business is getting more complex, and we want manufacturing systems smart enough to make complexity an advantage.

You won't inherit a mess to clean up. You'll inherit working systems, monthly audits, committed plant teams, and leaders who want to get better. Your job is to protect what works, raise the bar, and build what comes next, in the plants, in the warehouse, on the road, and in the software that ties it together.

Genesis is a multi-plant manufacturer rooted in Elkhart, Indiana. Our capabilities include lamination, mouldings, panel processing, and composite forming operations, serving customers whose needs change quickly and often. Genesis serves the RV, Kitchen & Bath, Fleet & Heavy Vehicle, and Commercial Markets with 14 plants and 900 employees. We have a passion for growth and are always improving.

We're customer- and product-driven at our core. Our business group leaders live close to customers and products, and they make the daily calls that keep us responsive. Behind them, we've built real operating discipline: a proprietary MRP platform developed and refined in-house over two decades, monthly audits across safety, 5S, manufacturing excellence, people, and warehouse, and a growing logistics operation with our own managed fleet.

We're growing, including through acquisition, and we intend to keep doing both. We're stable and able to make decisions quickly, without layers of bureaucracy between a good idea and the plant floor.

The VP of Operations owns how Genesis manufactures: the systems, standards, and accountability that let every plant perform and adapt. Reporting to the President & CEO, you'll be the company's senior manufacturing leader and its go-to problem solver.

This is a role of influence and ownership, not a traditional chain of command. Plants report through operations managers to our business group VPs, who stay close to customers and make day-to-day calls. You'll design the systems those teams run on, coach and challenge them to use them well, and keep the whole company honest about maintaining them. When a customer need changes overnight, our group VPs decide what to do;

your systems make sure we can do it well, safely, and profitably. The role will have direct reports and responsibility for safety, logistics, warehouse excellence, and continuous improvement, with the opportunity to take on manufacturing HR as the role grows.

If you want to shape how an entire company runs, with direct access to leadership and the freedom to act, read on.

• Safety. Own safety policy and accountability across every site. Make Genesis a place where people go home safe, and where safety performance is measured, visible, and owned.
• Manufacturing excellence. Own our quality and operational excellence systems, and the monthly audit process behind them. Keep what works, raise the bar as plants mature, and make sure findings turn into lasting improvement, not just scores.
• Systems for agility. Design physical and digital systems that let us absorb fast-changing customer demand: changeovers, flexible staffing, scheduling, and smarter use of our in-house MRP platform. Turn floor problems into clear requirements and see them through to adoption.
• Turnarounds. Partner with business group teams to diagnose and fix underperforming plants, bringing structure, urgency, and hands-on problem solving.
• Launches and overhauls. Lead the start-up of major new operations and…