Director of Operations

DIRECTOR OR OPERATIONS

Marietta, OH | Full-time, on-site | Relocation support offered

$200,000+ base salary commensurate with experience plus annual performance bonus

Reports to: COO

Company Overview

This is a vertically integrated OEM building custom PDUs, RPPs, and Static Transfer Switches for the data center market.

• They are in hypergrowth mode with revenue growing more than 3x last year and projected to grow another 50–100% next year.
• Sister facilities under the same ownership handle precision sheet metal fabrication and power transformer manufacturing, with final assembly and on-site testing the primary facility.
• They've recently acquired an additional 240,000 sq ft facility that will triple production capacity.
• The COO this hire reports to is a tenured manufacturing executive who took his prior division at a global industrial OEM from 14–16 week lead times to 3–5 days on custom uninterruptible power supply (UPS) products.

Role Overview

• The mandate covers the full sales order entry to shipping flow from planning, engineering, production, test, and warehouse/shipping.
• You will be accountable for OTD, quality, safety, cost, and plant-level P&L performance.
• As the business rapidly grows you'll start with a team of roughly 50 and will be expected to help build the organization, systems, and supervisory bench to support 250–300 people across 2 sites needed to serve customer demand effectively.

Core Responsibilities

• Daily, weekly, and monthly production scheduling
• Lead 7-8 direct reports across Assembly, Production Planning, Production Engineering, Test, Quality, Safety, and Warehouse Operations.
• Capacity planning and forecasting including translating demand growth into staffing plans, shift structures, layout changes, and CapEx requests.
• Plant operating budget, with direct accountability for cost-per-unit, labor efficiency, and overhead absorption.
• Lean deployment across the floor: value stream mapping, Kaizen, 5S, standard work, etc.
• ISO 9001 quality management system, including documentation, corrective action, and customer audit readiness.
• Daily and weekly operational metrics including OTD, first-pass yield, safety, productivity, WIP, and backlog, with countermeasures when performance trends off target.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership in a lean, high-growth environment.
• A track record of building profitable capacity growth across people, process, and physical plant.
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 and audit/compliance processes.
• Financial acumen to read, interpret, and act on a P&L and balance sheet, with prior plant budget ownership.
• Experience leading a multi-department organization through supervisors and managers.
• Experience leading an operation of at least 250 employees.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related field

Target Background:

• Electrical or electromechanical manufacturing background across power distribution, switchgear, industrial controls, or a similarly regulated electrical power supply or grid-connected products.
• Sheet metal fabrication and/or wire harnessing exposure.
• Demonstrated experience running engineer-to-order production operations across a high-mix low-volume environment.
• Six Sigma or Lean certification.