Director of Operations
About The Position
ProEdge is seeking a Director of Operations to scale our manufacturing and supply chain operations by architecting continuous improvement and systems thinking for predictable, repeatable, and efficient processes, all while furthering a team-first culture. This leader will own all core operations functions, including manufacturing, assembly, shipping, receiving, lab operations, inventory, and procurement. This is a senior leadership role in a fast-growing organization. You’ll own building systems for scale for both independent and enterprise customer models, innovating processes both new and current products, and ensuring operational efficiency under rising cost-to-serve realities. If you're an ambitious leader who consistently delivers results and pushes for operational excellence, yet leads with true humility, transparency, and collaboration... keep reading.
Requirements
- Strategic – Candidate translates vision into strategy, creating effective team, processes, and plans
- High standards – Candidate is unsatisfied with operations that function but fail to foster culture of excellence
- Collaborative – Candidate seeks out others' ideas and critiques, while not needing consensus
- Results – Candidate has a strong record developing great teams with excellent execution
- Entrepreneurial Grit – Candidate works hard, gets hands dirty, and moves things forward even with setbacks
- Humble – Candidate is team-first and self-improving
- Transparent – Candidate tells the truth even when it may put them in a vulnerable position
- Customer-focus – Candidate recognizes the work is for a customer's benefit, and puts them in the heart of every process
- Discerning – Candidate makes consistently wise decisions
- Smart - Candidate can clearly communicate their thinking, distilling, and learning
Responsibilities
- Analyzing and improving manufacturing and shipping processes, clarifying accuracy of labor absorption, capacity, and costing by 6 months
- Optimize processes throughout operations, adding to cumulative earnings/cost-avoidance over the next 3 years
- Within 18 months, develop operations culture into continuous improvement, high-performance team, and drive top-tier manufacturing employee engagement scores (eNPS above 60).
- Establishing capacity planning models, balancing labor, equipment, and materials to handle 40% demand spikes, enabling the company to scale mixed fulfillment models without disruptions.
- Crafting a data-driven 3-year operations roadmap that improves operational costs by 10-15%, without compromising team health, customer quality, or regulatory compliance
- Analyzing top 20 raw materials by spend, identifying price trends over 3 years, and renegotiating contracts while maintaining quality standards.
- Integrate new or modified products into production processes with 98% FPY within 6 months of launches
Benefits
- Salary range of $160,000 to $190,000 based on experience plus annual bonus based on performance/profitability
- Company paid medical/vision/dental premiums for Employees with flex options
- 4% Pre-Tax Employer Match 401k
- Accrued Paid time off (PTO) earning up to 4 weeks annually
- 9 Paid holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
