Manufacturing Vice President, Operations – East Region

FXI•Radnor, PA

7h•Remote

About The Position

The Manufacturing Vice President, East Region owns commercial product manufacturing, shipping and receiving, and facilities across the East Region plant network. The role plans, directs, and monitors all manufacturing operations and partners across functions to set priorities and deliver results in a fast‑moving environment. The selected leader will be a strategic operator who continuously seeks business growth and opportunity, working with peers across all functions to set priorities, drive alignment, and deliver results in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment. This position will have oversight of the East Region plants to include Fort Wayne, IN; Archbald, PA; Spencerville, OH; Portage, WI; Dubuque, IA; Tupelo, MS; Chattanooga, TN; High Point, NC; Miami, FL.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Operations, Engineering, or related field.
15+ years of manufacturing management experience, including plant management and responsibility for a multi-plant network.
Demonstrated success implementing Lean Manufacturing; working knowledge of Six Sigma and continuous improvement tools.
Strong command of financial statements and standard manufacturing metrics, with prior P&L responsibility.
Strong analytical skills and the ability to understand technical manufacturing processes across multiple plants.
Track record of consistently delivering business results across diverse teams and stakeholders.
Ability to travel up to 70%, with regular cadence at each East Region site.

Nice To Haves

Entrepreneurial, results‑driven, and comfortable challenging the status quo while respecting others.
Strong communicator who sets clear goals, holds teams accountable, and influences peers, subordinates, and senior leaders.
Hands‑on, decisive, and adaptable, with the emotional maturity to lead through ambiguity and change.
Collaborative team player who promotes employee engagement and represents Operations effectively with customers, vendors, and partners.
Forward‑looking, with the scale to grow into broader Operations leadership over time.

Responsibilities

Lead manufacturing at all regional sites with safety first, driving toward world‑class EHS performance and full regulatory compliance.
Drive operational excellence with shop‑floor KPIs and short interval controls, advance a Lean culture using SQDC metrics, and apply Six Sigma, SPC, and Lean tools to reduce lead times, cost, and variation.
Apply root cause analysis and effective corrective action to drive down internal and external cost of quality, sustain ISO and customer quality requirements, and ensure products meet or exceed customer specifications.
Develop strategic plans that optimize footprint and efficiency, and scale best practices across the company.
Carry full P&L, budget, and capital ownership for regional multi‑plant operations.
Manage material, labor, overhead, and freight to target.
Continuously review processes, systems, and agreements to remove waste and protect supply, and pursue initiatives that fill the plants to capacity.
Own shipping, receiving, and inventory control across the region, ensuring incoming material quality and on‑time, in‑spec delivery to customers.
Provide responsive order management and demand forecasting with Business Units, and apply value engineering to support cost, quality, and reliability goals.
Set inventory policy and capacity plans aligned to long‑term forecasts and strategy, run MRP‑driven production scheduling, protect manufacturing IP, and maintain contingency plans for market, EHS, quality, or operational disruptions while sustaining regulatory and ISO compliance.
Lead with safety first and hold yourself and your teams accountable for EHS and quality results.
Build and develop a high‑performing team of plant managers with shared accountability for company, site, and department goals, and embed safety and quality awareness throughout the regional organization.
Serve on the Operations Leadership Team, drive horizontal alignment across regions and functions, share best practices, develop bench strength, and recognize results.