Vice President Utility Operations

Valmont; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 350,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Valmont is seeking a Vice President of Utility Operations to lead North American manufacturing, QA, and continuous improvement across multiple facilities. The role translates enterprise strategy into a coordinated three-year roadmap, ensuring safety, reliability, and profitability while building capacity and leadership depth for growth.

The leader will drive manufacturing plans, performance metrics, and cross-functional collaboration with Supply Chain, Engineering, and Capital Projects to meet

Qualifications

• Experience leading manufacturing operations and QA programs.
• Proven track record in driving continuous improvement and Lean initiatives.
• Strong leadership to align site teams with enterprise strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing operations, QA, and continuous improvement through site leaders and plant managers.
• Translate enterprise strategy into three-year manufacturing roadmaps and annual plans.
• Embed safety and enforce critical controls across facilities.
• Ensure accurate records, compliance and early risk surfacing across sites.
• Develop and execute production plans with cross-functional teams (Commercial, Engineering, Supply Chain).
• Improve schedule adherence, reduce delays and quality issues through disciplined management.

Skills

Manufacturing leadership

Quality Assurance

Continuous Improvement

Lean manufacturing

Job description

15000 Valmont Plaza Omaha Nebraska 68154

Why Valmont

We're Here to Move the World Forward. Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better.

Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today . We are the modern workforce . Are you ready to move the world forward?

A Brief Summary of This Position:

The Vice President Utility Operations leads assigned North American manufacturing operations, Quality Assurance, and Continuous Improvement through Operations Directors, functional leaders, and Plant Managers. This leader translates Valmont's enterprise strategy and Utility growth priorities into safe, reliable, and profitable manufacturing results, building the capacity, workforce capability, and leadership depth required for sustained growth. The role partners with Supply Chain, Information Systems, Capital Projects, AMET

Essential Functions:

• Lead assigned manufacturing operations, Quality Assurance, and Continuous Improvement through operating and functional leaders. Achieve approved operating profit, controllable cost, productivity, inventory, and working capital targets within delegated authority, with clear ownership of site performance and customer commitments.
• Translate Valmont's enterprise strategy and Utility growth priorities into an integrated three-year manufacturing roadmap, annual plans, site objectives, and measurable milestones. Deliver capacity, productivity, customer service, and cash improvements that support profitable growth in partnership with functional teams.
• Embed safety into daily leadership routines by identifying serious-risk exposures, verifying critical controls, and ensuring work stops when those controls are inadequate. Address legacy equipment risks and ensure investigations, corrective actions, and learning from serious incidents and near misses are applied and sustained across facilities.
• Require absolute integrity, accurate records, and compliance with controls for inventory, scrap, timekeeping, production, quality, purchasing, expenses, and company assets. Surface difficult facts early and protect employees who raise concerns.
• Establish a disciplined daily, weekly, and monthly operating cadence with common measures, visible risks, and recovery plans with owners and dates. Engage on the plant floor to verify conditions and remove barriers.
• Lead the assigned Quality Assurance function and hold plant leaders accountable for quality at the source, process adherence, and permanent corrective action. Establish consistent standards and verification across sites; reduce rework, scrap, customer escapes, and the cost of poor quality.
• Develop executable production plans with Commercial, Engineering, Supply Chain, and plant teams through SIOP and finite-capacity scheduling. Validate equipment, qualified labor, materials, and production readiness; account for maintenance and variability. Assign owners and recovery actions for constraints before committing output.
• Deliver the approved production plan and customer commitments. Improve schedule adherence, reduce past-due shipments and manufacturing-related delays in invoicing, and reduce operational causes of liquidated damages and back charges. Communicate risks early with recovery plans, owners, and dates.
• Lead Continuous Improvement across the assigned network to increase throughput and labor productivity through constraint removal, flow, standard work, and Lean. Build local capability and verify sustained gains while controlling overtime and protecting safety, quality, and workforce stability.
• Own site maintenance execution, operator care, equipment condition, and reliability results. Partner with Maintenance and technical functions on standards and expertise; improve uptime through preventive maintenance, downtime analysis, and appropriate OEE, MTBF, and MTTR measures.
• Own manufacturing investment requirements, site readiness, staffing, training, production ramp, and realization of approved benefits. Partner with Capital Projects and technical functions on business cases, project delivery, commissioning, and acceptance under approved governance; verify capacity, safety, quality, and financial outcomes.
• Manage plant labor, material use, inventory accuracy, controllable costs, and cash with Finance, Supply Chain, and Sourcing. Reduce shortages, excess inventory, and avoidable premiums through clear plant requirements, accurate production and inventory data, and coordinated recovery actions.
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