Vice President of Manufacturing

PARR • Hillsboro, OR

22h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Vice President of Manufacturing provides strategic and operational leadership for the company's manufacturing operations and related field execution functions. This role is responsible for safety, quality, cost delivery, pricing discipline, and people leadership across multiple manufacturing facilities and field-based teams, ensuring consistent performance, scalable processes, and strong financial outcomes. This leader will balance hands-on operational rigor with long-term capacity planning, cost management, and pricing strategy, partnering closely with Sales, Purchasing, People Operations, Finance and Field Operations to support profitable growth and customer commitments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; engineering, operations, or supply-chain related discipline preferred.
• 12 - 15+ years of progressive leadership experience across manufacturing and/or operational execution environments.
• Experience in building materials, construction products, or related industries strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead both plant-based and field-based teams.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing cost drivers and their application to pricing and margin decisions.
• Strategic thinker with strong operational execution skills.
• Data-driven decision maker with strong financial acumen.
• Proven ability to scale sales organizations while improving margins.
• Strong communicator capable of influencing at all organizational levels.
• Hands-on, humble leadership style aligned with PARR's values of integrity, partnership, and long-term relationships.
• Must maintain a valid driver's license and be comfortable traveling by car or air as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive oversight of all assigned manufacturing facilities, including production, safety, quality, maintenance, and logistics coordination.
• Establish and monitor KPIs related to throughput, labor efficiency, on time delivery, scrap, rework, warranty exposure, and safety performance.
• Drive consistency in manufacturing standards, work instructions, and quality expectations across locations.
• Provide executive oversight of field‑based execution teams supporting customer fulfillment and installation activities.
• Ensure strong coordination between manufacturing output, delivery schedules, and field execution to minimize delays, rework, and warranty risk.
• Establish performance metrics for field operations, including job cycle time, callbacks, quality outcomes, safety performance, and customer experience.
• Partner with operational leaders to improve labor planning, productivity, and execution consistency across plant and field environments.
• Champion a strong, proactive safety culture across both manufacturing and field operations.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA and applicable state and local workplace safety and employment regulations.
• Partner with People Operations and plant leaders on incident prevention, investigation, and corrective action.
• Own manufacturing and field operations budgets, labor planning, productivity targets, and capital expenditures.
• Lead medium and long‑term capacity planning across production and field execution functions.
• Establish and maintain pricing strategies for manufactured products in partnership with Sales, ensuring pricing reflects operational costs, labor and capacity constraints, market conditions, and margin objectives.
• Provide guidance on pricing adjustments related to material volatility, labor availability, lead times, and operational complexity.
• Partner with Finance and Sales to ensure pricing discipline, margin protection, and consistent application of pricing frameworks.
• Serve as a key partner to Sales leaders to support profitable growth and customer commitments.
• Align manufacturing capacity, field availability, lead times, and pricing decisions with sales strategies and customer expectations.
• Participate in escalation decisions related to complex bids, non‑standard work, or capacity‑constrained opportunities.
• Lead, coach, and develop manufacturing and field leadership teams.
• Establish strong performance management, succession planning, and leadership development practices.
• Partner with People Operations on workforce planning, compensation alignment, engagement, and retention strategies.
• Lead continuous improvement efforts focused on efficiency, quality, safety, margin performance, and employee engagement.
• Encourage frontline and field involvement in problem‑solving and operational excellence initiatives.

Benefits

• Profit Sharing
• 2 weeks of vacation per year on day 1, increasing by one day each year up to 4 weeks
• Employee paid sick days
• 7 holidays
• Standard health plan with a $1,000 deductible
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
• Massage coverage
• Chiropractic coverage
• Acupuncture coverage
• FSA (Flexible Spending Account)
• Childcare pretax spending programs
• Up to 50% match on the first 6% contributed to 401(k) after 1 year, fully vested at end of 3rd year
• 3% profit share contribution to 401(k) (with Board approval)
• Tuition reimbursement (up to $2,500/year)
• Annual profit sharing (minimum of $2,700 for 2020)
• $1,000 referral bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees