VP of Manufacturing Solutions

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At Interstates, we don't just show up to work, we show up for each other. From our headquarters in Iowa to job sites across the country, we're doing award-winning electrical, controls, automation, and OT work that powers industrial facilities for clients here in the U.S. and around the world. Whether you're bending conduit, wiring panels, writing code, supporting projects, or helping things run behind the scenes, you'll be part of a crew that works hard, shares laughs, and takes pride in doing quality work.

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The Vice President of Manufacturing Solutions provides executive leadership for Interstates' Manufactured Solutions, including panel, prefabrication, modular, and skid-based offerings. This role is responsible for setting the long-term vision, strategic direction, and growth agenda for the portfolio, ensuring alignment with enterprise objectives, client needs, and construction delivery strategies. The VP leads the development of scalable, profitable, and differentiated manufacturing solutions that improve safety, schedule certainty, quality, cost efficiency, and execution consistency for Interstates and its clients.

This position partners closely with manufacturing operations, construction, controls, sales, and executive leadership to shape strategy, guide investment decisions, and ensure the Manufactured Solutions business expands in a sustainable and market-responsive way. While manufacturing operations leaders are responsible for day-to-day execution, this role establishes strategic priorities, business model direction, and growth roadmap for the offer category.

• Define and evolve the strategic direction for Manufactured Solutions.
• Establish portfolio priorities across panels, prefabrication, modular, and skid solutions.
• Identify market opportunities, strategic adjacencies, and emerging trends that support business expansion.
• Determine which offerings should be developed, scaled, enhanced, repositioned, or sunset.
• Align strategy with enterprise growth and construction objectives.

• Own and maintain the Manufactured Solutions portfolio roadmap.
• Lead product and offer category strategy, including target markets, client segments, and value propositions.
• Direct market positioning, differentiation, and commercial strategy for each solution offering.
• Ensure each offering has a defined value proposition, target customer, and sales channel.
• Guide innovation priorities and evaluate opportunities for new solution development.

• Lead strategy for standalone solutions sold directly to end clients, including OEMs and strategic accounts.
• Define how Manufactured Solutions integrate into project delivery models across NCDS, RES, and IA&I.
• Evaluate and shape business models that maximize client value, margin performance, and delivery scalability.
• Support diversification of revenue streams and expansion into new markets or channels.

• Establish and manage revenue, margin, and market growth targets.
• Evaluate business performance, investment opportunities, and return on capital for new products, technology, and equipment.

• Partner with operations and finance leadership on demand planning, workforce planning, and capital investments.
• Drive profitable, sustainable growth of the offer category.

• Translate market demand and strategic priorities into long-range production, facility, and talent requirements.
• Partner with manufacturing operations leadership to align capacity planning, resource strategy, and technology investment.
• Ensure operational readiness for new offerings, growth initiatives, and strategic customer commitments.
• Collaborate on process improvements and enabling capabilities that improve scalability and reliability.

• Identify priority industries and client segments.
• Develop market-focused…