Director Of Operations

Director of Operations

Reports to: EVP, Global Operations & Platform Integration

Location: Greater Chicago Area

Compensation: $130K+ Annually

Role Mandate

Own day-to-day operational execution at our flagship manufacturing facility, deliver shipment and revenue performance for the multiple brands operating on-site, and help build the systems, processes, and operational playbook that make this facility the benchmark site for integration, scalability, and operational excellence across the entire enterprise.

Role Overview

The Director of Operations is the senior operating leader responsible for day-to-day execution across our primary manufacturing and assembly facility, which houses multiple distinct industrial product brands and consolidated business units. This role owns manufacturing, supply chain, planning, service, quality, and continuous improvement at the operating level.

This facility is intended to become the company's gold standard for operational excellence. The Director is responsible for helping build, refine, and institutionalize the site's operating playbook so that newly acquired businesses can be integrated into the facility quickly, and the same disciplines can be applied across satellite operations.

While reporting to the EVP of Global Operations & Platform Integration, this role carries direct exposure to the board and executive group because the facility's performance is central to the company's buy-and-build operating model. A major upcoming business consolidation into this site serves as the first major footprint of that model, and this role is expected to help make it successful, repeatable, and measurable.

Core Responsibilities

1. Operational Leadership & Site Execution

• Own day-to-day manufacturing, supply chain, planning, service, quality, and delivery performance for all site-based brands and operations.
• Drive execution against shipment schedules, plant-loading plans, labor and material readiness, and customer delivery commitments.
• Provide visible control over constraints, recovery plans, and the practical actions required to deliver monthly and quarterly targets.

2. Multi-Brand Financial Ownership

• Own shipment and revenue performance across all brands and business lines consolidated into the site.
• Partner with Finance and the EVP on standard costing, cost visibility, margin performance, inventory management, and operational spend discipline.
• Provide weekly and monthly visibility into shipment status, revenue risk, margin risk, and corrective actions.

3. Establishing the Gold Standard for Operational Excellence

• Help define and refine the site operating model so it becomes the corporate benchmark for process discipline, KPI rigor, planning cadence, and execution accountability.
• Build operating rhythms that are robust enough to support both current brands and future consolidated businesses.
• Translate corporate expectations into practical site-level behavior, operating reviews, dashboards, and accountability structures.

4. Operational Playbook and Integration Model

• Help drive the operational playbook for the facility, including the systems, data, workflows, standard work, and process expectations required to pull acquired businesses into the site quickly and effectively.
• Ensure the playbook can also be applied in satellite business operations where full consolidation into the main site is not the right answer.
• Use the upcoming major brand integration as the first footprint for proving, refining, and documenting the playbook model.

5. Supply Chain, Planning, and Lead Time Improvement

• Execute supply chain and planning disciplines that improve lead times, material availability, inventory turns, supplier performance, and manufacturing flow.
• Lead operational initiatives to reduce friction, shorten cycle times, and improve throughput without compromising quality or delivery reliability.
• Work within SIOP / S&OP and plant-planning structures to ensure execution matches forecasted demand and commercial commitments.

6. Cross-Functional Partnership & Executive Exposure

• Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Service, and Finance to align customer commitments, new product launches, engineering changes, and plant capability.
• Participate in business and executive reviews with direct exposure to the board and executive group on site performance and key initiatives.
• Escalate structural issues quickly and contribute solutions that improve enterprise execution, not just site-level firefighting.

7. Systems, Data, and Platform Adoption

• Implement and strengthen the corporate operating platform at the site, including ERP, CRM/CPQ handoffs, reporting tools, BOM discipline, routings, and KPI integrity.
• Ensure new businesses brought into the facility are onboarded to the required systems and process standards with speed and consistency.
• Create reliable data and reporting so the facility can serve as a true model site for the wider enterprise.

8. Continuous Improvement and Team Leadership

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives across labor efficiency, throughput, quality, cost, and operating discipline.
• Build a high-accountability operations culture with clear ownership at the supervisor, manager, and functional-lead levels.
• Develop site leaders and subject matter experts who can run with greater clarity, discipline, and autonomy inside the model.