Director of Manufacturing & Operations Transformation

Confidential Career Opportunities; Lenoir (NC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Career Opportunities is seeking a Director of Manufacturing & Operations to own and transform the company’s primary production facility and third-party manufacturing relationships. You will diagnose root causes, build solutions, and establish systems to prevent recurrence, driving measurable, sustained improvements.

This role leads a cross-functional team, manages the budget, and ends up strengthening the operation beyond maintenance—creating an operating system with routines, KPIs,

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience, including full-site operating, budget, and cost-accountability responsibility; multi-site experience is a plus.
• Demonstrated record of building operating systems, routines, and standards where they did not previously exist.
• Demonstrated record of raising the operating standard within an organization, including where that standard was initially resisted.
• Proven turnaround or performance-improvement experience in an underperforming operation.
• Demonstrated ability to understand the financial consequences of operational decisions, including labor, yield, downtime, maintenance, inventory, freight, and capital expenditure.
• Demonstrated ability to manage manufacturing performance quantitatively — builds the measures, reads them, and acts on them.
• Working engineering understanding of plant controls and automation — PLCs, HMIs, VFDs, SCADA, and instrumentation; capable of directing engineering work and challenging vendor claims.

Responsibilities

• Own daily production output and throughput, and maintain clear visibility of performance by line.
• Own the production schedule — build weekly against open orders, hold adherence, sequence to clear backlog, and adjust to reality.
• Own product quality across all sites in scope, including specification conformance and the response when product falls outside it.
• Own shipping and logistics performance — accurate, on-spec, on-schedule outbound fulfillment.
• Establish meaningful line-level performance metrics — planned versus actual production, line rate, uptime and downtime, schedule attainment, yield, labor productivity, quality and rework, backlog, and changeover performance.
• Use those metrics to identify capacity constraints, chronic losses, and the highest-value opportunities for improvement.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related field; equivalent operating experience will be considered. Master’s degree in a related field is a plus

Job description

Confidential Career Opportunities is seeking a Director of Manufacturing & Operations to own and transform the company’s primary production facility and third-party manufacturing relationships. You will diagnose root causes, build solutions, and establish systems to prevent recurrence, driving measurable, sustained improvements.

This role leads a cross-functional team, manages the budget, and ends up strengthening the operation beyond maintenance—creating an operating system with routines, KPIs,