Vice President Operations - Commercial Paint (Required)

Cherry Coatings•Oklahoma City, OK

About The Position

Cherry Coatings is a family-owned commercial painting contractor established in 1968, providing architectural, industrial, and maintenance coating services. The Vice President of Operations supports City Leaders in planning, leading, and overseeing daily operations across the company’s markets. The role is focused on safety, quality, and production, and requires deep operations experience in commercial paint environments. The position provides high-level oversight of commercial painting operations, supports project teams and field leadership, and helps ensure projects meet client needs, maintain profitability, and finish safely, on time, and on budget. It also contributes to market leadership, employee development, recruiting and retention, operational improvement, and the development of new products, services, and subsidiaries. The role is expected to act in accordance with Cherry Coatings’ core values: Servant Heart, Cultivate, Act Promptly, Innovate, and Deliver.

Requirements

Deep operations experience in commercial paint environments.
Ability to solve problems using critical thinking.
Ability to handle change and adapt easily.
Strategic thinking and planning skills.
Accountability.
Mentoring and motivating skills.
Organization and time-management skills.
Decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

Oversee day-to-day commercial painting operations at a high level within the region.
Maintain and reinforce a safety-first culture with employees and subcontractors.
Help recruit and hire field personnel, and find and onboard subcontractors.
Train and mentor Project Managers, Field Managers, and Foremen.
Work with Project Managers and City Leaders to allocate manpower appropriately across projects.
Meet with general contractors to ensure client needs are met, project sequence is protected, and problems are resolved.
Attend project meetings to address scheduling and sequence concerns, change orders, quality, risk management, and safety.
Ensure change order logs are maintained and extra work is accounted for.
Review job cost sheets, schedules, and labor forecasts to help ensure profitability and control costs.
Walk jobs with Project Managers and Field Managers to assess performance and develop the team.
Review field staffing schedules to ensure appropriate personnel are assigned to projects.
Evaluate subcontractors’ capabilities, set pay rates, and hold them accountable.
Set and enforce safety, quality, and production standards.
Identify operational problems and inefficiencies, take corrective action, and find leaner ways to execute work.
Conduct routine Field Manager and Foreman meetings using the EOS System to identify and resolve concerns and improvement opportunities.
Conduct frequent job walks to check that safety, quality, and production standards are being met.
Work with the team to implement the vision and execution of the VTO.
Assist City Leaders in developing new products, services, and subsidiaries, and help support other markets as they develop.
Collaborate with Project Managers and Field Managers on project approaches, product selection, difficult projects, and jobsite situations.
Participate in buyout meetings and scope reviews for potential projects, and offer field expertise in meetings with general contractors.
Build relationships with general contractors through meetings, calls, and entertainment.
Evaluate training needs and provide solutions; attend L10 integrator meetings, lead L10 operations meetings, and attend L10 Project Manager meetings as needed.
Lead efforts to recover problem jobs by walking sites, setting systems and milestones, aligning with general contractors on what is needed for success, holding teams accountable, and following up regularly.
Support safety initiatives, quality control, production site walks, training and mentoring, recruiting and retention, innovation and research and development, motivating people, and manpower allocation.