Crisis Management and Business Continuity Manager

Rhoads Industries, Inc.•Philadelphia, PA

3h•Onsite

About The Position

Rhoads Industries is seeking a Crisis Management and Business Continuity Manager to lead the strategic design, deployment, and ongoing execution of their corporate resilience strategy. This role is central to evaluating threat environments, mitigating production downtime, safeguarding assets, and managing organizational disruptions. The Manager will collaborate with various departments, including Operations, Maritime, Facilities, Security, Safety, Quality, IT, Contracts, Finance, HR, Compliance, and Legal, to develop and implement mitigation strategies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Emergency Management, Business Continuity, Risk Management, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Minimum of 5-7 years of progressive ownership over Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, or Crisis Operations portfolios.
Experience in developing site evacuation plans, emergency action plans, mass notification technology systems, law enforcement and community Intelligence networks.
Proven professional history operating inside a heavy manufacturing facility, industrial maritime environment, commercial production plant, or live shipyard.
Ability to remain calm and professional in high-pressure situations.
Strong working, and mission-essential delivery expectations
Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Active Personnel Security Clearance (Confidential level) OR the direct, uncompromised capability to immediately satisfy requirements and secure this clearance upon hire.

Nice To Haves

Certifications such as CCM or FEMA ICS 100/200/700/800 are a plus but not required.
Familiarity with Department of War (DoW) environments, government contracting compliance mandates is a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

Lead the formal development, deployment, and programmatic upkeep of comprehensive Business Impact Analyses and Risk Assessments across all core corporate functions.
Facilitate risk workshops with senior departmental leaders to calculate down-time thresholds, recovery time objectives (RTOs), and recovery point objectives (RPOs).
Identify, map, and catalog industrial supply chain single-points-of-failure, physical facility security weak points, and programmatic software dependencies.
Draft, maintain, and scale specialized industrial crisis response and business continuity blueprints reflecting ISO 22301 and DoW compliance metrics.
Structure organizational escalation paths, formal corporate alert matrices, and localized emergency command posts aligned to industrial and shipyard environments.
Regularly adapt playbooks to combat emerging threats, including extreme coastal weather, shipyard facility infrastructure failures, and targeted cyber-physical attacks.
Design and implement routine tabletop simulations, live-action evacuation dry runs, and system-wide emergency communication drills for all staff levels.
Deliver data-driven post-exercise reports and corrective gap analyses directly to the VP, Risk Management, and Senior Leadership teams to foster continuous optimization.
Additional Duties as Assigned