Director of Operations

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Description

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

As the Director of Operations, you will lead all manufacturing and supply chain activities across a multi-plant campus in Lancaster, CA, including Wetcast, Drycast, and Mesh Reinforcing operations. This role provides both strategic and hands-on leadership across operations, maintenance, quality, safety, people development, and supply chain execution within a high-mix, low-volume manufacturing environment.

Reporting to the General Manager, you will serve as a leader of leaders, building strong teams, driving operational excellence, and scaling operations in a newly constructed facility. This role plays a critical part in aligning day-to-day execution with long-term business objectives while fostering a culture of accountability, safety, and continuous improvement.

A highlight of your day-to-day will include:

• Leading and developing Plant Managers and functional leaders across multiple manufacturing operations

• Owning overall plant performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people metrics

• Spending meaningful time in the plants driving engagement, accountability, and operational discipline

• Driving standardization, best practices, and consistency across diverse manufacturing processes

• Partnering cross-functionally to align production capabilities with customer demand and business priorities

• Leading Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives across the campus

• Supporting strategic planning, capacity growth, and capital investment decisions

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• 8–12 years of progressive operations leadership experience in manufacturing or industrial environments

• Proven experience leading multi-plant or multi-process operations

• Strong people leader with experience managing managers and building leadership benches

• Demonstrated success driving operational excellence in complex, fast-paced environments

• Deep understanding of manufacturing operations, maintenance, quality systems, and supply chain integration

Additional skills and experience that are highly valued:

• Experience in building materials, concrete, precast, or high-mix, low-volume manufacturing

• Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, or Six Sigma experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or related field (MBA a plus)

• Strong strategic thinking paired with hands-on execution discipline

ALL ABOUT JENSEN INFRASTRUCTURE

Like you, our founder, Don Jensen was looking for a way to support his family, so he started his company in 1968. Since its founding, we’ve supported communities across Nevada, California, Arizona, Washington, Missouri and Hawaii.

Jensen likely impacts your daily life. We build culverts to drain water from your neighborhoods, underground utility boxes to hold cables, and manholes to allow workers access to the sewers deep below the roads we drive on. And that’s just a small sample of what we do at Jensen daily.

When you work at one of Jensen’s many locations, you will enjoy the close relationships and camaraderie of a small company while being part of a larger, well-established, growing company.

We are committed to ensuring employment practices that promote equal opportunities. Please let us know if you require any reasonable accommodation during your interview.

We consider the wide variety of factors in making compensation decisions, including job-related knowledge; skillset; experience, education and training; certifications; and other relevant business and organizational factors.

Additional Compensation and Benefits: Jensen Infrastructure offers various competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, PTO, and 401k with a Company match. The successful candidate may also be eligible to participate in Jensen’s annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing such programs. Incentive awards will depend on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and company performance.