Director of Operations

Director of Operations
Position Overview

The Director of Operations will lead the day-to-day operations and financial performance of a manufacturing facility. This highly visible, hands-on leadership role oversees production, maintenance, quality, safety, scheduling, and workforce performance while partnering cross-functionally with Finance, HR, Sales, Customer Service, Supply Chain, and Quality.
The ideal candidate understands that manufacturing performance drives financial performance and will spend significant time on the floor developing leaders, improving processes, solving problems, and driving accountability for results.

Location: Albany, NY
Compensation: $150,000 plus annual bonus

Key Responsibilities

• P&L & Financial Performance: Own the facility P&L, budget, forecasting, operating costs, labor, overtime, scrap, material usage, maintenance, and profitability. Identify variances and implement corrective actions.
• Plant Operations: Lead manufacturing operations across all shifts, ensuring staffing, equipment, materials, and scheduling are aligned with customer demand and business objectives.
• Production Performance: Drive throughput, OEE, efficiency, labor productivity, schedule attainment, capacity utilization, and overall manufacturing performance.
• Cost & Productivity: Identify opportunities to reduce labor, scrap, material usage, overtime, downtime, and operating expenses while maintaining safety, quality, and customer service.
• Continuous Improvement: Lead Lean and continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity, waste reduction, equipment utilization, changeovers, downtime, and capacity.
• Maintenance & Equipment: Ensure equipment reliability, effective maintenance practices, root-cause resolution, and sound capital investment decisions.
• Safety & Quality: Establish safety and quality as core operating priorities. Hold leaders accountable for safe work practices, regulatory compliance, quality performance, defect reduction, and corrective actions.
• Customer & Delivery: Ensure the plant has the capacity and operational discipline to meet customer commitments and improve on-time delivery and schedule reliability.
• Leadership Development: Lead, coach, and develop the plant's management and supervisory team while building a culture of accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Finance, HR, Sales, Customer Service, Supply Chain, and Quality to align operational decisions with customer and business objectives.
• Growth & Capacity: Evaluate staffing, equipment, technology, processes, and capacity requirements to support continued growth.

Qualifications

• Progressive manufacturing leadership experience.
• Demonstrated plant or location-level P&L, budgeting, forecasting, and cost management experience.
• Strong knowledge of production management, capacity planning, labor productivity, equipment utilization, quality, maintenance, and manufacturing cost drivers.
• Experience with Lean Manufacturing, continuous improvement, root-cause problem solving, and KPI-driven management.
• Bachelor's degree in operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, Business, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.

Nesco Resource offers a comprehensive benefits package for our associates, which includes a MEC (Minimum Essential Coverage) plan that encompasses Medical, Vision, Dental, 401K, and EAP (Employee Assistance Program) services.

Nesco Resource provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.