Site Director

Invio Automation, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Invio Automation, Inc. is seeking a dynamic Site Director for the Webster, NY location to lead a high-performing automation business.

You will drive safety, quality, delivery, and financial performance while strengthening Invio’s leadership in medical devices, life sciences, diagnostics, and drug production markets. The role requires building and mentoring a leadership team, delivering high-complexity projects, and aligning Operations, Engineering, PM, Sales, Supply Chain, and Finance to achieve

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing businesses or business units with automation or project-based work.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams in project-based manufacturing.
• Ability to recruit, build and scale a leadership team.
• Strong knowledge of markets and technology trends.
• Experience in medtech, life sciences, or diagnostic sectors is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall leadership for the Webster site with responsibility for safety, quality, delivery, and financial performance.
• Communicate a long-term vision aligning resources and employees with strategy.
• Drive EBITDA margins by delivering high-complexity, high-value projects.
• Monitor performance using POC reporting and financial metrics to optimize profitability.
• Uphold safety culture, ensure EHS compliance, and drive continuous improvement.
• Lead portfolio oversight to ensure programs are on schedule, within budget, and meet expectations.

Job description

THE COMPANY

Invio Automation is a leader in Industry 4.0, delivering high-value automation solutions that help customers accelerate growth in specialized markets such as medical devices, life sciences, and advanced manufacturing. With deep domain expertise and extensive engineering capabilities, Invio partners with clients from early-stage product design and R&D through to full-scale automation. Customers value Invio’s commitment to precision, quality, efficiency, and safety, and rely on its innovative, scalable solutions to support long-term growth. Headquartered in Michigan, Invio Automation is supported by a vast design library, a growing North American presence with global reach, and a team of over 600 experienced professionals across the Midwest and northeast.

Invio operates through two integrated segments:

• The Solutions Segment delivers engineered systems for precision manufacturing, including robotic cells, multi-station assembly lines, and other automation solutions.
• The Technologies Segment focuses on advanced autonomous systems and ergonomic tooling, including heavyweight Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), turnkey assembly solutions, and custom lift-assist tools for safety-critical applications.

Together, these segments enable Invio to deliver tailored automation solutions that improve performance and achieve high efficiency across the production lifecycle.

Visit https://invioautomation.com/ for more information.

THE ROLE

The company is seeking a dynamic Site Director in Webster, NY to lead and grow a high-performing automation business, driving operational excellence, customer success, and profitable growth while strengthening Invio Automation's leadership position in the medical device, life sciences, diagnostics, and drug production markets.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide overall leadership for the Webster site with full responsibility for safety, quality, delivery, financial performance, customer satisfaction, and employee engagement.
• Communicate a compelling long-term vision that aligns efforts, resources and employees with the mission, strategy, and objectives for the business.
• Effectively execute differentiated EBITDA margin profile by delivering high complexity, high value, repeat projects in select high growth end markets.
• Leverage project financial and operational metrics, including percentage-of-completion (POC) reporting, to monitor business performance, identify risks, optimize profitability, and drive informed business decisions.
• Champion a culture of safety by providing visible leadership, ensuring compliance with all environmental, health, and safety (EHS) requirements, holding leaders accountable for safe work practices, and driving continuous improvement to achieve world‑class safety performance.
• Ensure achievement of operational and financial objectives through disciplined execution, accountability, and effective leadership across all functional areas.
• Provide executive oversight of the project portfolio to ensure customer programs are executed safely, on schedule, within budget, and to customer expectations.
• Represent the organization with major customers, suppliers, competitors, government agencies, professional societies, and similar groups.
• Interact directly with key and target customers to assure customer satisfaction, retention, and growing levels of commercial activity.
• Foster collaboration across all functional areas by aligning Operations, Engineering, Project Management, Sales, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, and HR to achieve site objectives, deliver exceptional customer outcomes, and drive operational excellence.
• Coordinate and direct group activities that include, but are not limited to, the attainment of identified goals and objectives, which may include forecasting; benchmarking; innovation; recommendations for product positioning, branding and/or product line extensions; and formulating strategies.
• Lead, coach, and develop the site's leadership team by fostering accountability, collaboration, succession planning, and a high-performance culture.
• Drive a culture of operational excellence through Lean principles, continuous improvement initiatives, standardization, and data-driven decision making.
• Promote and emphasize open communications to foster stronger teamwork and focus on site-wide objectives.
• Foster cross business cooperation and collaboration to fully leverage talent, products, customers, and intellectual property.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5+ years managing businesses or business units with a mix of automation and/or project-based work complemented by broad commercial strategy business roles is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated understanding of the full project lifecycle within a custom manufacturing or automation environment, from sales handoff and engineering through procurement, manufacturing, installation, customer acceptance, and project closeout.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in a project-based manufacturing environment, balancing customer commitments, operational priorities, and financial objectives.
• Experience recruiting, building, and scaling a leadership team.
• Proven ability to build relationships internally and externally, with customers and stakeholders.
• Strong technical background; skilled at building relationships and trust amongst technical experts and customers.
• Has led the growth of innovative products, optimizing budgets and spend to maximize organic growth.
• Strong knowledge of key markets and technology trends.
• Current or prior work within a medtech, life sciences, drug production/bioprocessing, or diagnostic sector is highly desirable.

Other Skills and Abilities

• Innovative thinker and critical decision maker/problem solver.
• Results-oriented; driven by a strong commitment to the core values at Invio Automation.
• Strong technical expertise backed up with mature leadership skills; has the ability to persuade up, down and across the organization and influence attitudes and behavior.
• Customer focus; can deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Financially savvy; can interpret and apply an understanding of financial indicators to make better business decisions.
• Mentor and people developer; can build a high-performance team and continually improve a culture of excellence.
• Passion for winning the right way; high integrity and professionalism.

EDUCATION

Undergraduate degree in engineering or technical field is desired; BSME, BSEE, Applied Science degree preferred. MBA a plus

Compensation

Salary Range: $150,000 – $190,000 annually

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $150,000 to $190,000. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, experience, education, etc.

Bonus Eligibility: This position is eligible for participation in the Company's Annual Incentive Plan (AIP), subject to plan terms.

INVIO AUTOMATION’S CORE VALUES

• We take pride in the reliability of our team and the difficult problems we solve for customers.
• We deliver real customer value that positively impacts the lives of those around us.
• We are dependable. Relationships and trust matter.
• Our ingenuity and desire to improve lives will complement our suite of solutions.
• We strive to demonstrate that our attention to detail does not start or end with the solutions we engineer and deliver.
• We believe exceptional service is better demonstrated than said.