Production Manager – Fenestration & Exterior Envelope Manufacturing

Lead Manufacturing Operations for the Balanced Unitized Team

Company:
Balanced Unitized Team

Location:

Great Falls, MT — Onsite

Employment Type:

Full Time

Schedule:

Monday–Friday, primarily 8:00 AM–5:00 PM

Compensation: 100,000–130,000+ annually, based on experience

Relocation Assistance:
Available for qualified candidates

The Opportunity

Balanced Unitized Team is seeking an experienced manufacturing leader to oversee production operations at our Great Falls facility.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role for someone who understands fenestration, exterior-envelope systems, aluminum fabrication, or closely related manufacturing environments and knows how to lead people, improve processes, and take ownership of plant performance.

You will oversee a custom manufacturing operation supporting complex commercial and specialty projects across the Northwest. This is not a high-volume widget manufacturing environment. Our work is highly customized, technically demanding, and requires strong coordination across engineering, fabrication, quality, scheduling, and project delivery.

The right candidate will combine industry experience with high-level people leadership and will be comfortable stepping into a business where strong operational leadership is urgently needed.

What You'll Lead

• Lead and develop a manufacturing team of approximately 30–50 employees, including production and middle-management personnel.
• Oversee daily fabrication and production activities involving:
• Unitized curtain wall systems
• Aluminum windows
• Exterior-envelope systems
• Cladding and panel systems
• Aluminum cutting, milling, drilling, and related fabrication
• Create accountability around production goals, labor efficiency, quality, scheduling, budgets, and financial performance.
• Build a strong people-management culture focused on communication, accountability, development, and team performance.
• Analyze production workflows and identify bottlenecks, waste, scheduling conflicts, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Improve production planning, labor allocation, resource management, and overall plant efficiency.
• Partner closely with executive leadership, engineering, project teams, vendors, and operations staff.
• Lead root-cause analysis and corrective-action efforts for production and quality issues.
• Maintain high standards for workplace safety and operational discipline.
• Support implementation and continuous improvement of quality-management systems.
• Help strengthen systems and processes as the operation continues to scale.
• Take ownership of materials, waste reduction, operational budgets, and other plant-level performance metrics.

What We're Looking For

• Required Experience
• 5+ years of relevant leadership experience in fenestration, exterior-envelope, architectural aluminum, window, curtain-wall, panel, cladding, or closely related manufacturing.
• Direct experience leading people in a manufacturing or fabrication environment.
• Strong understanding of aluminum fabrication processes, preferably including cutting, milling, drilling, CNC, assembly, or similar production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and hold teams accountable.
• Experience managing production schedules, workflow, staffing, quality, and operational performance.
• Strong problem-solving ability with experience identifying and correcting manufacturing or process issues.
• Ability to communicate effectively across the shop floor, management team, engineering, vendors, and executive leadership.
• Education
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related field is preferred.
• Equivalent senior-level industry experience will be considered in place of a degree.
• Highly Preferred
• Direct experience with unitized curtain wall, commercial fenestration, architectural aluminum, exterior-envelope systems, or panel manufacturing.
• Experience implementing or working within ISO 9000 / ISO 9001 quality-management systems.
• Experience with CNC machinery and aluminum fabrication equipment.
• Familiarity with CAD, production software, ERP/MRP systems, or project-scheduling platforms.
• Experience working with Primavera P6 or similar scheduling tools.
• Lean manufacturing,…