Director, Manufacturing

Harris•Upper Marlboro, MD

22h•$143,500 - $208,075

About The Position

The Director of Manufacturing Operations is responsible for enterprise-wide manufacturing strategy, performance, and scalability. The role oversees manufacturing operations across all facilities and provides leadership, direction, and accountability to plant managers through direct or dotted-line reporting, depending on region and structure. It ensures manufacturing infrastructure, capacity, and operating models support internal construction projects and external manufacturing customers while enabling consistent performance, repeatability, and growth across regions. The Director is the primary integration point between manufacturing and engineering, industrial engineering, supply chain, estimating, product management, and construction. This is an enterprise role focused on manufacturing performance and scale, systems, standards, and outcomes. It enables industrialized construction and external manufacturing growth; it is not a plant manager, an industrial engineering execution role, or a project-specific manufacturing lead.

Requirements

Senior leadership experience overseeing multi-facility manufacturing or fabrication operations.
Strong understanding of manufacturing systems and plant operations.
Strong understanding of capacity planning and throughput optimization.
Strong understanding of capital investment and equipment strategy.
Proven ability to lead through influence across geographically distributed teams.
Experience operating at the intersection of manufacturing, engineering, and construction.

Nice To Haves

Background in mechanical fabrication, modular construction, or industrialized construction.
Experience scaling or transforming manufacturing operations.
Exposure to productized manufacturing models.
Familiarity with union manufacturing environments.

Responsibilities

Own enterprise accountability for manufacturing performance, including safety, quality, throughput, cost, and delivery.
Lead and align plant managers through direct and/or dotted-line reporting, ensuring consistency with enterprise standards and priorities.
Establish and maintain standard operating expectations across all manufacturing locations.
Set enterprise standards, targets, and investment direction for manufacturing infrastructure, capacity, and productivity.
Partner with plant leadership, Supply Chain, and Industrial Engineering to identify system-level constraints and prioritize improvement initiatives.
Sponsor, resource, and govern cross-facility improvement efforts, aligning them with strategy and measurable, sustained results.
Review performance outcomes and hold plant leadership and support functions accountable.
Lead manufacturing expansion into new regions to support internal project demand and external sales.
Lead site selection, facility planning, startup strategy, and capacity scaling.
Partner with corporate development and executive leadership on build-versus-buy and long-term manufacturing footprint decisions.
Serve as the primary manufacturing interface with engineering and detailing, industrial engineering, supply chain and purchasing, manufacturing and construction estimating, manufacturing product managers, and construction operations.
Ensure alignment between product definitions, design intent, manufacturing capability, and execution outcomes.
Partner with Manufacturing Product Managers to ensure products are manufacturable, scalable, and supported by standardized facilities and processes.
Enable the transition from project-centric fabrication to repeatable, product-driven manufacturing where applicable.
Champion a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement across manufacturing operations.
Develop manufacturing leadership capability and succession across regions.