President​/Site Leader – Aerospace & Defense Precision Machining - Focus Platform

Confidential | Worcester County, MA

$15M to $20M Revenue

• Must have direct precision machining leadership experience
• Must have direct aerospace and defense manufacturing experience
• Must have led in a CNC machining environment involving tight tolerances, complex parts, demanding quality requirements, and high-accountability customers
• Must have personally owned P&L, gross margin, pricing, quoting, job costing, and execution accountability
• Must have strong financial and operating discipline
• Must be comfortable leading a small, technically demanding shop hands‑on
• Must have practical Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement depth
• Must have strong focus on machine utilization improvement, and shop‑floor performance execution

This is a rare opportunity to step into a President / Site leadership role with full P&L ownership for a confidential leader in the aerospace and defense precision machining sector, with annual revenue in the range of approximately $15M to $20M.

This role requires a leader with a true precision machining leadership background and direct aerospace and defense manufacturing experience. The company serves demanding A&D, government, and mission‑critical customers where quality, delivery, compliance, and execution discipline are non‑negotiable.

This is not a broken business. It is a strong technical shop with meaningful customer relationships, a capable team, and a significant backlog of work. The opportunity is to bring stronger financial discipline, Lean operating cadence, data visibility, machine utilization improvement, operational performance discipline, and backlog conversion to unlock the next level of performance.

The right leader will be a hands‑on, financially sharp, Lean‑oriented operator who can lead from the floor, manage through numbers, build trust with an existing technical team, strengthen operating systems, and turn customer demand into shipped revenue, gross margin improvement, EBITDA growth, and sustained customer performance.

This role is best suited for a President / Site Leader, or senior operations leader who understands precision machining, aerospace quality expectations, and small‑company leadership. The ideal candidate will bring the operating discipline of a strong shop‑floor leader and the financial discipline of a true P&L owner.

Confidential

Worcester County, MA Area (On‑Site)

Available for the right candidate

Chief Operating Officer (Platform / Holding Company)

• Own full responsibility for all site operations including machining, quality, maintenance, engineering, planning, and materials
• Learn shop operations quickly and establish credibility through visible, hands‑on leadership
• Install and sustain tiered daily and weekly management routines with clear KPIs across Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery
• Drive disciplined scheduling, WIP control, and job costing visibility in a high‑mix CNC job shop environment

• Lead and continuously strengthen aerospace quality systems and compliance requirements
• Ensure audit readiness, document discipline, and a zero‑defect mindset across the organization
• Drive root‑cause problem solving and corrective action with urgency and accountability

• Serve as the senior executive interface for key aerospace and defense customers
• Protect customer trust through transparent communication and consistent execution
• Balance customer commitments with internal capacity, risk, and profitability considerations
• Improve utilization of underloaded advanced CNC assets through scheduling discipline, workforce deployment, and process improvement
• Strengthen preventive maintenance, TPM, and equipment reliability to improve uptime and throughput
• Propose and execute ROI‑positive capex aligned with capacity expansion, capability enhancement, and risk mitigation
• Lead Lean as a management system, not a tool deployment
• Deploy a practical lean based operating approach with visual management, leadership standard work, and lean…