VP of Operations | Wood Product Manufacturing | Relocation Assistance

2 months ago


Bella Vista, United States One Eighty Collective Full time

Are you an experienced Director of Operations or hands-on VP of Operations in a furniture or wood products manufacturing facility who has experience leading production and manufacturing teams during a time of growth? Are you a manufacturing facility Operations leader (VP Ops or Director of Ops) with strong experience optimizing processes or implementing best practices? Does your passion for Manufacturing Operations come from your experience on the Production side of the house? If you're nodding your head "yes" to these questions and you're excited to lead a manufacturing facility’s growth and transformation, this VP of Operations role could be a great fit


This Missouri based furniture manufacturing company is going through growth and needs a hands-on leader to optimize their manufacturing processes and up-level their team's ability, in order to improve inefficiencies and missed targets. Reporting to the President, this new VP of Ops will evaluate their current processes, then create and execute a strategy to transform the organization and lead the team to greatness. Using strong operational principles and processes (in Ops, Quality, & Production), they will be a hands-on mentor to the team while implementing their plan. The best practices will encourage a proactive approach and utilize data-driven insights to improve schedule attainment as well as strategic planning for future needs, based on growth


What You’ll Be Doing - You Will Be:

  • Be empowered to truly own Operations (incl Quality, Eng, Production, & Maintenance)
  • Instill a mindset of proactivity and independent thinking, building employee morale through communication, recognition, and growing careers
  • Short Term: Observing and learning - learning the business inside and out, observing the team and processes, and identifying gaps/easy wins
  • Near Term: Creating/executing a plan that improves and updates processes, including optimizing for on-time delivery, quality, capacity planning and enabling the team to make data-driven decisions moving forward
  • Long Term: Continually gathering data around what’s working and what’s not working to continually improve, thinking through potential automations down the line.
  • Provide clear direction and goals to teams for driving operational efficiency and accountability
  • Driving cultural and operational change, including leading and mentoring, and living out the core values of the organization
  • Working with other leaders to communicate data-driven updates and strategies


What You’ll Need:

  • Wood product manufacturing experience (ideally in both small and large environments) - must have experience operating in a smaller team environment
  • Experience optimizing operational processes to improve quality, on-time delivery, and capacity planning - Lean Six Sigma experience preferred (not required)
  • Strong experience implementing KPIs and leveraging data to inform decision making
  • People leadership (with a high EQ and strong drive)
  • Leading through change: the ability to drive change and the ability to hold strong and push through when things aren’t easy
  • Contagiously calm - able to keep their teams grounded
  • Ability to communicate with a diverse set of stakeholders (from the floor to the board) and lead through a data-driven approach
  • Be onsite daily - relocation assistance will be provided, if needed
  • Production floor experience (at some point earlier in career)


What You’ll Get:

  • Competitive cash compensation + very strong performance bonus
  • Excellent benefits
  • Be fully empowered to own Operations
  • High visibility role + massive opportunity for growth


If you’re a Director of VP of Operations in the wood manufacturing space please apply today



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