<h2>About Re:Build Manufacturing</h2>Re:Build Manufacturing is a growing family of industrial and engineering businesses combining enabling technologies, operational superiority, and strategic M&amp;A to build America’s next generation industrial company. At Re:Build we deploy deep expertise in engineering, operations management, and technology to supercharge the performance of our member companies. We leverage deep professional expertise and a candid, principled operating culture to drive differentiated outcomes. Ours is a fast-paced environment where individuals can stretch and be challenged to pursue their fullest potential.Re:Build was founded to pioneer a profitable model for the revitalization of US manufacturing. We’ve assembled a powerful set of complimentary capabilities and lines of business that enable us to pursue a wide range of end markets. Our acquired businesses are grounded in build-to-print and by-the-hour engineering and design services, and we’re leveraging their combined expertise to migrate to increasingly sophisticated program development and production, as well as the generation of our own products. Our unique set of capabilities lend themselves to highly complex systems and products, and we offer customers a range of services including product and systems design, automation, fabrication, assembly, and large volume contract manufacturing. Our customers span a wide array of industries including aerospace, defense, mobility, healthcare, pharma, biotech, clean tech, chemicals, energy, lifestyle, food production, and industrial equipment. <h2>Who we are looking for</h2>This is a key leadership role within our Operations organization, reporting directly to our Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this role, your primary responsibility is to lead the continuing successful growth and development of a group of manufacturing or engineering services member companies. This includes providing mentorship and operational advice to their leadership teams, as well as coordinating continuous improvement and initiatives within these diverse businesses. You will develop and implement repeatable, efficient, and coordinated fulfillment strategies across these businesses, facilities, geographies, technologies, and local cultures, bringing to bear your professional experience to understand the broader business operating context, assess challenges and opportunities, manage customer and partner expectations and impacts, and identify appropriate courses of action. We are growing quickly, and our growth is only expected to accelerate. We need a leader who is able to scale our capabilities rapidly depending upon the evolving needs of our current and future customers. These capabilities include, but are not limited to: <ul><li>Depth of technical, managerial, and operational talent (people)</li><li>Robust, efficient, and rapid manufacturing processes</li><li>Intelligent application of technology, including automation, AI, and data analytics</li><li>Development and management of efficient external supply chains</li><li>The utilization of Lean, and making Lean cultural</li><li>Ability to travel 50% of the time to be present in the businesses</li></ul><h2>What you get to do</h2>You will be accountable for achieving targeted growth, quality, and profitability objectives through collaboration across the organization, alignment of application of expertise and capabilities, and coaching leaders for enhanced performance. You will help drive adoption of lean methodologies, implement and refine processes for continuous improvement, and leverage analytics for critical metrics, insights and analysis.Key Duties and Responsibilities:<ul><li>Ensure fulfillment, quality, cost and customer expectations are met by driving assessment and coordination of efforts across member companies, manufacturing, and engineering teams within the organization.</li><li>Achieve and maintain manufacturing capacity requirements on an ongoing basis, providing for build-up and adjustment of resources as needed, including facilities, equipment and people.</li><li>Coach, develop, and assess leadership talent internally to achieve growth and meet market needs.</li><li>Lead across functions to drive continuous improvement through Lean to enhance quality, workflow efficiency, predictability, and productivity in product and service fulfillment.</li><li>Demonstrate highly visible, engaging leadership, with affinity for the production floor and engineering shops. Lead by example, emphasizing the Principles of <a href="https://www.rebuildmanufacturing.com/our-principles">The Re:Build Way</a>.</li><li>Contribute to the overall short- and long-range planning process and in the establishment, monitoring and assessment of our annual operating budget.</li><li>Develop and deploy essential analytics to track important metrics, feed analysis and generate useful insights.</li><li>Partner with leaders across the business to create ‘best for the enterprise’ fulfillment approaches that complement each business’s context and objectives.</li><li>Support leadership teams in assessing opportunities, understating constraints, securing balanced contracting, and developing responsive action plans to ensure profitable and mutually beneficial delivery on commitments.</li><li>Participate in the investigation and implementation of new services, manufacturing processes, and product or systems technologies to meet the organization's objectives.</li><li>Provide guidance to strategic projects within our business, as needed.</li><li>Act as an Operations functional lead for mergers and acquisition assessment and case development.</li><li>Where most essential, develop, implement, and optimize procedural standards and policies related to the business.</li><li>Help sustain safety in all workplaces.</li></ul><h2>What you bring to the team</h2><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical or business-related subject area, or equivalent experience (MBA or MS preferred)</li><li>Minimum of 15 years of leadership experience with manufacturing processes and systems, working in a highly matrixed environment, leading large multidisciplinary teams is essential.</li><li>Expertise using “lean” principles and a track record of success in developing significant improvements in cost management, inventory management, quality, and delivery.</li><li>Ability to marshal resources to get things done, orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal, and use resources effectively and efficiently.</li><li>Proven skills partnering across businesses and a collaborative approach within and across organizational boundaries.</li><li>Proven capability to encourage, mentor, and cultivate team members to achieve improved results.</li><li>Exhibits a high degree of technical credibility and communicates highly technical information in a simplistic and easily understandable way.</li><li>Analytical skills to draw appropriate conclusions from data, anticipating second and third order effects when making recommendations.</li><li>Ability to isolate critical factors, summarize complex information and communicate effectively at executive levels.</li><li>The ideal candidate will be located in or willing to relocate to the Midwest United States.</li></ul>The BIG payoffWe are a company who is going to make a difference in the industries and the communities in which we choose to operate.Every employee of Re:Build will share ownership in the company and will share in the financial rewards of the success we achieve together, at all levels of the company!We want to work with people that reflect the communities in which we operate Re:Build Manufacturing is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, organizational level, work styles, tenure and life experiences. Or for any other reason.   Re:Build is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations.ta@ReBuildmanufacturing.com or you may call us at 617.909.6275.

Re:Build Manufacturing is a family of industrial businesses combining cutting-edge enabling technologies, operational superiority and strategic M&amp;A to build America&rsquo;s next generation industrial company. Re:Build leverages a deep expertise in operations management and technology to supercharge performance of its subsidiaries by implementing core technologies across industrial platforms in diversified growth markets. Our goal is to help revitalize the U.S. manufacturing base over the coming decades, creating substantial opportunities for our employees and the communities where we operate.

VP of Operations

<h2>About Re:Build Manufacturing</h2>Re:Build Manufacturing is a growing family of industrial and engineering businesses combining enabling technologies, operational superiority, and strategic M&amp;A to build America’s next generation industrial company. At Re:Build we deploy deep expertise in engineering, operations management, and technology to supercharge the performance of our member companies. We leverage deep professional expertise and a candid, principled operating culture to drive differentiated outcomes. Ours is a fast-paced environment where individuals can stretch and be challenged to pursue their fullest potential.Re:Build was founded to pioneer a profitable model for the revitalization of US manufacturing. We’ve assembled a powerful set of complimentary capabilities and lines of business that enable us to pursue a wide range of end markets. Our acquired businesses are grounded in build-to-print and by-the-hour engineering and design services, and we’re leveraging their combined expertise to migrate to increasingly sophisticated program development and production, as well as the generation of our own products. Our unique set of capabilities lend themselves to highly complex systems and products, and we offer customers a range of services including product and systems design, automation, fabrication, assembly, and large volume contract manufacturing. Our customers span a wide array of industries including aerospace, defense, mobility, healthcare, pharma, biotech, clean tech, chemicals, energy, lifestyle, food production, and industrial equipment.&nbsp;<h2>Who we are looking for</h2>This is a key leadership role within our Operations organization, reporting directly to our Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this role, your primary responsibility is to lead the continuing successful growth and development of a group of manufacturing or engineering services member companies. This includes providing mentorship and operational advice to their leadership teams, as well as coordinating continuous improvement and initiatives within these diverse businesses. You will develop and implement repeatable, efficient, and coordinated fulfillment strategies across these businesses, facilities, geographies, technologies, and local cultures, bringing to bear your professional experience to understand the broader business operating context, assess challenges and opportunities, manage customer and partner expectations and impacts, and identify appropriate courses of action. We are growing quickly, and our growth is only expected to accelerate. We need a leader who is able to scale our capabilities rapidly depending upon the evolving needs of our current and future customers. These capabilities include, but are not limited to:&nbsp;<ul><li>Depth of technical, managerial, and operational talent (people)</li><li>Robust, efficient, and rapid manufacturing processes</li><li>Intelligent application of technology, including automation, AI, and data analytics</li><li>Development and management of efficient external supply chains</li><li>The utilization of Lean, and making Lean cultural</li><li>Ability to travel 50% of the time to be present in the businesses</li></ul><h2>What you get to do</h2>You will be accountable for achieving targeted growth, quality, and profitability objectives through collaboration across the organization, alignment of application of expertise and capabilities, and coaching leaders for enhanced performance. You will help drive adoption of lean methodologies, implement and refine processes for continuous improvement, and leverage analytics for critical metrics, insights and analysis.Key Duties and Responsibilities:<ul><li>Ensure fulfillment, quality, cost and customer expectations are met by driving assessment and coordination of efforts across member companies, manufacturing, and engineering teams within the organization.</li><li>Achieve and maintain manufacturing capacity requirements on an ongoing basis, providing for build-up and adjustment of resources as needed, including facilities, equipment and people.</li><li>Coach, develop, and assess leadership talent internally to achieve growth and meet market needs.</li><li>Lead across functions to drive continuous improvement through Lean to enhance quality, workflow efficiency, predictability, and productivity in product and service fulfillment.</li><li>Demonstrate highly visible, engaging leadership, with affinity for the production floor and engineering shops. Lead by example, emphasizing the Principles of <a href="https://www.rebuildmanufacturing.com/our-principles">The Re:Build Way</a>.</li><li>Contribute to the overall short- and long-range planning process and in the establishment, monitoring and assessment of our annual operating budget.</li><li>Develop and deploy essential analytics to track important metrics, feed analysis and generate useful insights.</li><li>Partner with leaders across the business to create ‘best for the enterprise’ fulfillment approaches that complement each business’s context and objectives.</li><li>Support leadership teams in assessing opportunities, understating constraints, securing balanced contracting, and developing responsive action plans to ensure profitable and mutually beneficial delivery on commitments.</li><li>Participate in the investigation and implementation of new services, manufacturing processes, and product or systems technologies to meet the organization's objectives.</li><li>Provide guidance to strategic projects within our business, as needed.</li><li>Act as an Operations functional lead for mergers and acquisition assessment and case development.</li><li>Where most essential, develop, implement, and optimize procedural standards and policies related to the business.</li><li>Help sustain safety in all workplaces.</li></ul><h2>What you bring to the team</h2><ul><li>Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical or business-related subject area, or equivalent experience (MBA or MS preferred)</li><li>Minimum of 15 years of leadership experience with manufacturing processes and systems, working in a highly matrixed environment, leading large multidisciplinary teams is essential.</li><li>Expertise using “lean” principles and a track record of success in developing significant improvements in cost management, inventory management, quality, and delivery.</li><li>Ability to marshal resources to get things done, orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal, and use resources effectively and efficiently.</li><li>Proven skills partnering across businesses and a collaborative approach within and across organizational boundaries.</li><li>Proven capability to encourage, mentor, and cultivate team members to achieve improved results.</li><li>Exhibits a high degree of technical credibility and communicates highly technical information in a simplistic and easily understandable way.</li><li>Analytical skills to draw appropriate conclusions from data, anticipating second and third order effects when making recommendations.</li><li>Ability to isolate critical factors, summarize complex information and communicate effectively at executive levels.</li><li>The ideal candidate will be located in or willing to relocate to the Midwest United States.</li></ul>The BIG payoffWe are a company who is going to make a difference in the industries and the communities in which we choose to operate.Every employee of Re:Build will share ownership in the company and will share in the financial rewards of the success we achieve together, at all levels of the company!We want to work with people that reflect the communities in which we operate Re:Build Manufacturing is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, organizational level, work styles, tenure and life experiences. Or for any other reason.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Re:Build is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations.ta@ReBuildmanufacturing.com or you may call us at 617.909.6275.

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