Field Operations Manager

MNL is seeking a Field Operations Manager to provide senior operational leadership across our Vegetation Management field organization. This is a high-impact role for an experienced field operations leader who knows how to lead through others, establish clear expectations, build accountability, and create the operational systems and discipline needed for teams to perform at a consistently high level.

You will have the opportunity to shape how VM field operations function as MNL continues to grow—developing strong leaders, building scalable processes, and driving greater productivity and consistency across the division. This is a hands‑on leadership role that requires a strong presence in the field and a firsthand understanding of how work is being executed.

• Lead, coach, and develop the operational leaders responsible for vegetation management, grazing, fire, and other specialty field teams.
• Establish clear leadership expectations and hold leaders accountable for safety, quality, productivity, employee performance, and operational results.
• Build leadership capability throughout VM field operations so supervisors and managers can independently lead strong, accountable teams.
• Address performance and accountability issues directly while creating an environment where expectations are clear and employees understand what successful performance looks like.
• Identify future leadership needs, strengthen succession planning, and help build the leadership bench required to support continued growth.

• Establish and improve operational systems, standards, processes, and management practices that create greater consistency across VM crews, locations, and service areas.
• Identify operational inefficiencies and recurring challenges, determine root causes, and implement sustainable long-term solutions.
• Build greater consistency in how field work is planned, communicated, executed, and evaluated while recognizing the unique needs of different specialty services.
• Develop and improve standard operating procedures, best practices, and field expectations that support safe, efficient, and repeatable execution.
• Help shape a VM field operating model that can effectively support MNL’s continued growth and changing business needs.

• Evaluate field performance across the VM division and identify opportunities to improve productivity, workforce utilization, equipment utilization, quality, and overall operational effectiveness.
• Use operational metrics and firsthand field observations to identify performance gaps, make informed decisions, and hold leaders accountable for results.
• Maintain visibility into field execution by regularly visiting project sites, observing crews and leaders, and understanding the practical issues affecting performance.
• Support operational leaders in solving complex field challenges, resource conflicts, production issues, and other barriers to successful execution.
• Reinforce a culture of efficiency, ownership, follow-through, and continuous improvement without sacrificing safety or quality.

• Maintain a forward-looking understanding of workforce capacity, seasonal workload needs, operational capabilities, and anticipated constraints across VM field operations.
• Partner with Project Management, Resources, and operational leaders to align anticipated project demand with available labor, equipment, scheduling requirements, and service capabilities.
• Develop operational responses to capacity challenges, including staffing changes, cross‑training, resource allocation, scheduling adjustments, or other solutions.
• Strengthen workforce flexibility and cross‑functional capability so the VM Division can effectively respond to changing workload demands throughout the year.
• Partner with Resources and other operational teams to improve equipment utilization, project readiness, staging, mobilization, demobilization, and other processes that directly affect field productivity.

• Build strong working…