Director, Production

Position Responsibilities Leads end-to-end vehicle production operations across multiple manufacturing locations, ensuring safe, efficient, compliant, and scalable execution of all upfit production activities including body, paint, assembly, quality inspection, rework, and final release. Owns daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly production performance across all assigned facilities, ensuring operational output meets forecasted production plans, customer commitments, OEM requirements, and company financial objectives. Directs production scheduling, capacity planning, labor deployment, and operational resource allocation to optimize throughput, minimize downtime, and maintain predictable production flow across multiple sites. Drives operational excellence through lean manufacturing principles, standard work, takt-based production flow, waste elimination, bottleneck reduction, and continuous process improvement initiatives to improve efficiency, quality, and cost performance. Oversees vehicle chassis flow, inventory movement, material readiness, and production sequencing to ensure uninterrupted manufacturing operations, balanced line flow, and efficient conversion of inbound chassis into completed upfit vehicles. Partners closely with supply chain, logistics, purchasing, and planning teams to ensure inventory availability, supplier performance, inbound material timing, and transportation execution align with production schedules and delivery objectives. Establishes and manages key operational performance indicators (KPIs) including throughput, labor efficiency, first‑time quality, rework, on‑time delivery, schedule attainment, inventory turns, chassis aging, downtime, and production cost performance. Provides strong production leadership across multi‑site manufacturing teams, developing managers and supervisors while driving accountability, urgency, operational discipline, and consistent execution against defined production standards. Leads production readiness planning for monthly and quarterly volume objectives, ensuring labor, capacity, equipment, materials, and support functions are aligned to meet operational commitments without compromising quality or safety. Drives a culture of quality ownership throughout production operations, ensuring defects are rapidly identified, escalated, root‑caused, and permanently corrected to reduce rework, warranty exposure, and customer quality risk. Oversees operational coordination between production, paint, quality, engineering, logistics, and supply chain teams to maintain synchronized execution, remove constraints, and ensure efficient end‑to‑end manufacturing flow. Monitors and manages production input/output performance, ensuring inbound chassis, materials, labor availability, and operational capacity align with required production output and shipment commitments. Supports capital planning and manufacturing infrastructure improvements, including equipment, tooling, facility layout, and automation investments that improve throughput, safety, quality, and long‑term production scalability. Maintains strict compliance with OEM production standards, internal operating procedures, regulatory requirements, audit readiness expectations, and controlled process documentation across all production locations. Leads problem‑solving and operational recovery efforts when production disruptions occur, rapidly addressing labor shortages, material constraints, quality issues, equipment downtime, or logistics disruptions to protect production commitments. Drives cross‑site operational consistency through standardized processes, shared best practices, performance visibility, and leadership alignment to ensure consistent execution and results across all manufacturing locations. Skills, Qualifications & Core Competencies Proven manufacturing leadership experience leading multi‑site production operations in high‑volume, high‑mix automotive, manufacturing, or vehicle upfit environments, delivering results across safety, quality, cost, and delivery. Strong leadership capability with a demonstrated ability to build, develop, and lead high‑performing teams across multiple locations, driving accountability, operational discipline, and execution consistency. Proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams across production, quality, supply chain, logistics, planning, maintenance, and engineering to achieve production targets and operational objectives. Execution‑focused leader with strong decision‑making and problem‑solving skills, capable of rapidly resolving production constraints, quality issues, supplier disruptions, labor challenges, and operational bottlenecks. Demonstrated experience in production scheduling, capacity planning, labor deployment, inventory flow, chassis management, and operational resource alignment to support efficient production flow and on‑time delivery. Strong analytical and KPI‑driven leadership approach, utilizing production, quality, labor, cost, and delivery metrics to drive accountability, continuous improvement, and operational performance. Working knowledge of lean manufacturing, standard work, waste reduction, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement principles within complex production environments. Effective communicator and organizational leader capable of aligning frontline teams, site leadership, and executive stakeholders around priorities, performance expectations, and business objectives. Results‑oriented leader with a demonstrated ability to consistently deliver monthly and quarterly operational commitments through disciplined execution and strong team leadership. Education & Experience Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Supply Chain, or a related field preferred; equivalent combination of education, technical training, and relevant production leadership experience will be considered. Minimum of 8–12 years of progressive manufacturing or automotive production leadership experience, with demonstrated responsibility for production teams, operational performance, scheduling, quality, and delivery execution. Proven experience leading multi‑site production operations within high‑volume, high‑mix manufacturing, automotive, or vehicle upfit environments preferred. #J-18808-Ljbffr Rocky Ridge Trucks, Inc.