Director of Operations & Engineering in Lebanon Job Lebanon area,New Hampshire USA,Engineering

IBC Group is an industrial solutions provider specializing in advanced metal coatings, component repair, and performance engineering. We partner with manufacturers to extend the life of critical equipment, improve performance, and solve challenges related to wear, corrosion, and durability. Our capabilities include a wide range of thermal spray and performance coating technologies, supported by metallurgical expertise to ensure solutions meet demanding specifications.

From restoring worn components to enhancing new parts, our work helps customers reduce downtime and improve reliability across a variety of industries. IBC Group operates focused on leveraging advanced surface engineering solutions globally.

IBC Group is an equal opportunity employer. Full‑time employees qualify for additional benefits like medical, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off (i.e. vacation), and retirement savings options.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Execution: Communicate and execute company strategic goals and objectives.

Technical & Operational Leadership: Provide technical and operational leadership across engineering, production, quality, and business development. Act as the primary technical authority for the company's thermal spray applications and component dimensional restoration, ensuring all work is technically sound, properly planned, and executed efficiently in accordance with company standards and customer requirements.

Project & Group Coordination: Coordinate and direct projects, plan technical activities, and ensure successful execution of work and programs. Engage with other IBC Group technical and support staff as needed.

Commercial & RFQ Evaluation: Review incoming work including RFQs, contract requirements, and customer requests to ensure proper technical fit, scope, accurate industrial job costing/pricing for variable repair geometries, and scheduling before acceptance. Manage customer portals and interact directly with customers as needed.

Relationship Management: Interact and build ongoing relationships with company, IBC Group customers, sponsors, and community partners.

Production Alignment: Participate in production and planning meetings to communicate priorities, schedules, and expectations, ensuring alignment between technical requirements and daily operations.

Financial Accountability: Monitor financial performance including P&L, job profitability, backlog, and pipeline to ensure the business operates in a highly profitable, sustainable, and commercially independent manner.

Budgeting & Planning: Assist in preparing budgets, forecasts, bids, contracts, and proposals, and make recommendations regarding staffing, equipment, and operational needs based on business conditions.

Cap Ex Ownership: Recommend and support procurement of capital equipment and technical resources, subject to Company approval authority, budget limits, and applicable purchasing policies.

Technical & Methodological Oversight: Review technical work, reports, and methodologies to ensure accuracy, compliance, and sound engineering practices. Provide technical guidance on production, engineering, and R&D activities as required.

Knowledge Codification & SOPs: Lead the extraction and transition of historical technical knowledge into codified manufacturing routes, job routers, and robust Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to ensure repeatable shop‑floor quality.

Subsurface & Finishing Operations: Oversee associated mechanical manufacturing and finishing operations critical to component repair, including pre‑machining inspection, chemical stripping, masking, grit blasting, and precision post‑coat grinding/machining to tight dimensional blueprint tolerances.

Team Development: Assist in hiring, training, mentoring, timecard oversight, performance reviews, and corrective actions of team members, helping to ensure personnel follow procedures, policies, and performance expectations.

Executive Reporting: Meet regularly with executive management to review performance, current contracts, risks, and future opportunities.

Administration & Recordkeeping: Perform administrative duties as required, including approving…