Head of Enterprise Manufacturing & Growth

Harris; United States; Remote; USD 144,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life保险

401K with company match

Vacation time, sick time, and paidholi

Paid Parental leave

Short-Term Incentive Plan

Job summary

Harris is seeking a Director of Manufacturing Operations to lead enterprise‑wide manufacturing strategy across facilities. You will drive performance, safety, quality, and throughput while shaping capacity and cost discipline.

You will partner with engineering, supply chain, estimating, product management, and construction to enable scalable, repeatable manufacturing in a national organization.

Qualifications

• Senior leadership experience overseeing multi‑facility manufacturing or fabrication operations.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing systems and plant operations.
• Capacity planning and throughput optimization.
• Capital investment and equipment strategy.
• Proven ability to lead through influence across geographically distributed teams.
• Experience operating at the intersection of manufacturing, engineering, and construction.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise accountability for manufacturing performance, including safety, quality, throughput, cost, and delivery.
• Lead plant managers through direct and/or dotted‑line reporting, ensuring consistency with enterprise standards and priorities.
• Establish and maintain standard operating expectations across all manufacturing locations.
• Set enterprise standards, targets, and investment direction for manufacturing infrastructure, capacity, and productivity.
• Partner with plant leadership, Supply Chain, and Industrial Engineering to identify system‑level constraints and prioritize improvement initiatives.
• Sponsor, resource, and govern cross‑facility improvement efforts, ensuring alignment to strategy and measurable, sustained results.
• Lead manufacturing expansion into new regions to support internal project demand and external sales.
• Lead site selection, facility planning, startup strategy, and capacity scaling.
• Partner with corporate development and executive leadership on build‑vs‑buy and long‑term manufacturing footprint decisions.
• Serve as the primary manufacturing interface with: Engineering and detailing, Industrial Engineering, Supply chain and purchasing, Manufacturing and construction estimating, Manufacturing Product Managers, Construction operations.
• Partner with Manufacturing Product Managers to ensure products are manufacturable, scalable, and supported by standardized facilities and processes.
• Enable the transition from project‑centric fabrication to repeatable, product‑driven manufacturing where applicable.
• Champion a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement across all manufacturing operations.
• Develop manufacturing leadership capability and succession across regions.

Skills

Senior leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Capacity planning

Throughput optimization

Capital investment

Manufacturing operations

Job description

Harris is seeking a Director of Manufacturing Operations to lead enterprise‑wide manufacturing strategy across facilities. You will drive performance, safety, quality, and throughput while shaping capacity and cost discipline.

You will partner with engineering, supply chain, estimating, product management, and construction to enable scalable, repeatable manufacturing in a national organization.