Senior Production Leader

M.C. Dean; Bowling Green (VA); Presencial; USD 135.000 - 169.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive salary

Medical, dental, vision, life, and dis

401k Retirement Plan

Descripción de la vacante

M.C. Dean, Inc. is seeking a Senior Production Leader in Tysons, VA area to steer production strategy and lead large-scale operations across facilities and programs.

You will ensure safe, on-time delivery by coordinating engineering, quality, and supply chain teams while driving efficiency and growth. You will build leadership capability, set performance standards, and implement continuous improvements to scale capabilities and meet rising demand while maintaining cost controls and top safety

Formación

• Proven executive-level leadership in complex operational environments.
• Strong business, operational, and people leadership skills.
• Ability to lead at scale and influence organizational direction.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and execute the overall production operating strategy translating forecasts into capacity and resources.
• Direct production operations to meet safety, quality, schedule, cost, and productivity targets.
• Establish metrics, review performance trends, and drive corrective actions for underperforming areas.
• Lead capacity and resource planning including workforce, space, tooling, and equipment.
• Collaborate with engineering, quality, supply chain, and project teams to align production plans with priorities.
• Identify and resolve significant production constraints such as labor shortages, material availability, and bottlenecks.
• Standardize production processes and controls across the organization to improve consistency and scalability.
• Sponsor continuous improvement initiatives to increase throughput and reduce cycle time.

Conocimientos

Executive leadership

Strategic planning

Operations management

Staff leadership

Communication

Educación

High school diploma or equivalent

Descripción del empleo

Overview

About M.C. Dean

M.C. Dean is Building Intelligence. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation's most mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 7,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.

Why Join Us?

Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values-agility, expertise, and trust-we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment. At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.

The Senior Production Leader provides strategic and operational leadership for production operations, with accountability for production capacity, workforce and resource planning, schedule performance, quality, safety, cost, and operational efficiency. This role establishes the production strategy required to meet current and future business demand, ensures production organizations have the people, processes, equipment, and infrastructure needed to execute, and partners with engineering, quality, supply chain, project leadership, and other business functions to resolve constraints and improve overall production performance. The Senior Production Leader also develops the production leadership organization and drives long-term improvements in scalability, standardization, and operational capability.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the overall production operating strategy, translating business forecasts, project demand, and customer commitments into production capacity, staffing, equipment, facility, and resource requirements.
• Direct production operations across assigned facilities, programs, or production organizations to achieve established safety, quality, schedule, cost, productivity, and delivery objectives.
• Establish production performance measures and operating rhythms; review throughput, schedule attainment, labor utilization, rework, quality trends, constraints, and other key operational indicators and direct corrective action when performance falls below expectations.
• Lead capacity and resource planning, including evaluation of workforce requirements, production space, tooling, equipment, shift structures, subcontracted capacity, and other resources necessary to support current workload and forecasted growth.
• Partner with engineering, supply chain/materials, quality, project leadership, and operations teams to ensure designs, materials, production plans, work packages, and priorities are coordinated to support executable production schedules.
• Identify and resolve significant production constraints, including labor shortages, material availability, equipment limitations, process bottlenecks, quality issues, schedule conflicts, and competing business priorities.
• Establish and maintain standardized production processes, operating practices, performance expectations, and management controls across the production organization to improve consistency and scalability.
• Sponsor and prioritize continuous improvement initiatives that increase throughput, reduce cycle time and rework, improve labor efficiency, eliminate waste, and strengthen overall production reliability.
• Evaluate operational and business risks affecting production commitments and establish mitigation or recovery plans for significant schedule, resource, quality, capacity, or execution risks.
• Participate in business planning and growth decisions by assessing the production organization's ability to support new programs, customer requirements, volume increases, facility expansions, or changes in delivery strategy.
• Build and develop the production leadership organization by establishing clear accountability, coaching senior leaders, assessing leadership capability, and maintaining succession plans for critical production leadership positions.
• Represent production in executive-level planning and decision-making, providing leadership with clear information regarding production performance, capacity, constraints, investment requirements, operational risks, and recommended actions.
• Ensure production operations are conducted in accordance with applicable safety requirements, quality standards, company policies, and customer commitments.
• This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and responsibilities. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent and 16+ years of experience in production or operations leadership.
• Proven executive-level leadership experience in complex operational environments.
• Strong business, operational, and people leadership skills.
• Ability to lead at scale and influence organizational direction

Abilities

• Exposure to computer screens for an extended period of time.
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Reach by extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Have finger dexterity in order to manipulate objects with fingers rather than whole hands or arms, for example, using a keyboard.
• Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Identify and understand the speech of another person.

We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• A competitive salary
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Military Reserve pay offset
• Paid maternity leave

Pay Range

USD $135,120.00 - USD $168,900.00 /Yr.