Head of Operations & Business Management

DIRECTOR OR OPERATIONS Marietta, OH | Full-time, on-site | Relocation support offered
$200,000+ base salary commensurate with experience plus annual performance bonus
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.

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.

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.

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 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.