Director of Rental Operations - East

White Cap; Walled Lake (MI); Hybrid; USD 234,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

Dayton Superior seeks a senior operations leader to oversee multiple manufacturing locations, ensuring safety, quality, and on-time delivery while driving continuous improvement. You will manage budgets, set objectives, and lead cross-functional teams to optimize performance across sites.

The role requires extensive experience in manufacturing leadership, with a focus on cost control, inventory management, and capital planning to support strategic plant initiatives.

Qualifications

• Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline.
• Generally 9+ years of experience in a related field, including several years in a management/supervisory capacity.
• Preferred: prior plant management experience.
• Preferred: multi-plant management responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Manages the daily operations of multiple manufacturing locations, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations.
• Develops and executes objectives to meet overall plant financial performance, including safety, quality, delivery, throughput, and cost.
• Leads a team of manufacturing leaders and staff, coordinating cross-functional support from EHS, Sourcing, Quality, HR, IT and Engineering.

Skills

Leadership

Operations management

Budgeting

Inventory management

Education

BS/BA in related discipline

Job description

A position at White Cap isn’t your ordinary job. You’ll work in an exciting and diverse environment, meet interesting people, and have a variety of career opportunities.

The White Cap family is committed to Building Trust on Every Job. We do this by being deeply knowledgeable, fully capable, and always dependable, and our associates are the driving force behind this commitment.

Job Summary

Responsible for the overall safety, manufacturing performance, and continuous improvement, of multiple manufacturing locations. Responsible for safety and environmental compliance, product quality, delivery performance, meeting customer lead time needs, and cost or financial objectives.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities And Key Accountabilities

• Manages the daily operations of multiple manufacturing locations for the company and its various components, ensuring compliance with company, local, state, and federal policies and regulations.
• Develops and executes objectives to meet overall plant financial performance through a management operating system supporting safety, quality, delivery, throughput, and cost. Responsible for overall inventory management and ownership overall location performance.
• Leads a team of Manufacturing Engineers, Plant Managers, Site Leaders, Production Supervisors, Planners, Sourcing and others to support daily operations. Works cross functionally with EHS and central Sourcing, Quality, Human Resources, IT and Engineering functions to meet business needs.
• Creates a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence. Assures a daily leadboard management process is in place with daily communication to teams on objectives and execution.
• Follows up with teams to assure corrective action and recovery plans are in place as needed. Lead monthly communication meetings with associates in locations to assure they are aware of performance and opportunities for improvement.
• Develops annual operating budgets and provides fiscal direction. Manages to assure inventory and financial objects are met. Develop and execute capital plan for the manufacturing locations.
• Develops or assists with the development and implementation of policies and procedures consistent with those of the organization to ensure efficient and safe/compliant operation. Develops and assists with developing manufacturing plant strategy for the business.
• Represents the organization at various community and/or business meetings.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Nature and Scope

• Problems are typically defined by higher level leadership. Problems are difficult. Solutions require analysis and investigation.
• Decides how to achieve planned results within an organization’s plans, policies, and guidelines. May set or change plans/goals within respective department or area.
• May manage department via multiple layers of managers OR directly supervise a staff of professional individual contributors at the senior or technical advisor level.

Work Environment

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Education And Experience

• Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 9+ years of experience in a related field, including several years in a management/supervisory capacity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior plant management experience.
• Multi plant management responsibility.

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For Ohio Job Seekers

Pay Range

$234,440.00-$375,100.00 Annual

Ohio law requires the posting of the salary range for advertised jobs. This range is determined based on market data and internal pay practices to establish a minimum and maximum value for a job. Individual base pay is determined based on a variety of elements including experience, skills, internal equity and other factors. For additional details on benefits, please review the full job description on White Cap Jobs (https://whitecap.jobs/)

Functional Area

Corporate Operations

Work Type

Hybrid

Company:

Dayton Superior

White Cap is an Equal Opportunity Minority/Female/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veteran and Aff1ative Action Employer. White Cap considers for employment and hires qualified candidates without regard to age, race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law.