Vice President of Manufacturing - Industrial Automation

Vice President of Manufacturing - Industrial Automation

Location:

United States (Ideally near ATL airport)

Travel:
Fully Remote

Employment Type:

Full-Time

Package: $225,000-$300,000 + bonus

The company is seeking a Vice President of Manufacturing to lead manufacturing performance and operational scale across its US production activities.

This is a significant leadership role for an experienced manufacturing executive who understands the complexity of producing industrial automation equipment and engineered systems.

The Vice President of Manufacturing will be responsible for improving the connection between product engineering, manufacturing engineering, production, quality, supply chain, and customer delivery.

The successful candidate will lead a manufacturing environment where products may include complex electrical, mechanical, robotic, controls, and software components. The role will involve managing high-mix production, engineered-to-order or configure-to-order manufacturing, and the delivery of technically sophisticated equipment to major industrial customers.

• Lead manufacturing operations across the company’s US production facilities.
• Set standards for safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost.
• Improve the transfer of products and projects from engineering into manufacturing.
• Increase capacity while maintaining quality, delivery, and customer performance.
• Improve on-time delivery, lead times, throughput, and gross margin.
• Lead manufacturing engineering, production engineering, quality, planning, and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen production planning, scheduling, capacity planning, and work-in-progress control.
• Manage critical components, suppliers, and long-lead materials with procurement and supply chain teams.
• Establish scalable processes for complex, high-mix, engineered-to-order automation products and systems.
• Support new product introduction and design-for-manufacture initiatives.
• Improve collaboration across sales, engineering, project management, procurement, and manufacturing.
• Lead recovery plans for delayed or strategically important customer programmes.
• Implement lean manufacturing, root-cause analysis, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Establish clear manufacturing KPIs and performance-management routines.
• Develop plant managers, manufacturing engineering leaders, production managers, and operational teams.
• Support facility expansion, automation investment, capital planning, and potential new-site development.
• Partner with the executive team on manufacturing strategy, capacity, organisational design, and long-term growth.

• 15+ years’ experience in manufacturing, operations, or plant leadership within an industrial manufacturing environment.
• At least 7 years in senior manufacturing or operations leadership, with direct responsibility for manufacturing performance.
• Experience with in industrial automation, robotics, machinery, electrical equipment, motion control, or engineered capital equipment manufacturing.
• Direct leadership of manufacturing operations, rather than engineering or project delivery alone.
• Experience with complex, high-mix, engineered-to-order, configure-to-order, or project-based production.
• A proven record of improving delivery, quality, productivity, capacity, cost, or gross margin.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across production, manufacturing engineering, quality, planning, and supply chain.
• Strong understanding of the transition from engineering and product design into manufacturing.
• Experience leading managers and developing scalable operational structures.
• Working knowledge of ERP, MRP, production planning, scheduling, and manufacturing-performance systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills across engineering, sales, project management, supply chain, service, and executive leadership.
• Willingness to travel to US manufacturing sites, suppliers, and customers as required.