Vice President Operations - Commercial Paint (Required)

Cherry Coatings•Cincinnati, OH

About The Position

Cherry Coatings is a family-owned commercial paint contractor providing architectural, industrial, and maintenance coating services. The Vice President of Operations helps ensure regional business operations prioritize safety, quality, and production, and supports City Leaders with planning, leadership, and oversight of daily operations. The position assists Project Managers, Field Managers, and Foremen in meeting client needs across the company’s city markets. Deep operations experience in commercial paint environments is required. The role oversees operations and field leadership, supports project execution and profitability, builds relationships with general contractors, and develops employees through training and mentorship. It also contributes to market growth, project planning, problem resolution, and implementation of the company’s vision and operating systems. The role is guided by Cherry Coatings’ core values: Servant Heart, Cultivate, Act Promptly, Innovate, and Deliver.

Requirements

Deep operations experience in commercial paint environments.
Core skills include problem-solving and critical thinking, adaptability to change, strategic thinking and planning, accountability, mentoring and motivating, organization, time management, and decision-making.
Ability to complete projects safely, on time, and on budget while prioritizing safety, quality, and production.

Responsibilities

Oversee day-to-day commercial painting operations across the region, with safety, quality, and production as priorities.
Maintain and continually improve a safety-first culture among employees and subcontractors.
Help recruit and hire field personnel; find and onboard subcontractors, evaluate their abilities, set pay rates, and hold them accountable.
Train and mentor Project Managers, Field Managers, and Foremen, and identify and address ongoing training needs.
Work with Project Managers and City Leaders to allocate manpower appropriately and review field staffing and schedules.
Meet with general contractors to address client needs, protect project sequencing, solve problems, and establish the conditions needed for project success.
Attend project meetings to address scheduling and sequencing, change orders, quality, risk management, and safety.
Ensure change-order logs are maintained and extra work is accounted for; review job cost sheets and schedules to control costs and support project profitability.
Walk jobs with Project Managers and Field Managers to review standards and develop the team; conduct frequent job walks to check safety, quality, and production.
Understand job types and company execution methods; address operational problems and inefficiencies with corrective actions and leaner approaches.
Hold routine Field Manager and Foremen meetings to identify and resolve concerns and improvement opportunities using the EOS System.
Work with the team to implement the vision and execution of the VTO; assist City Leaders in developing products, services, and subsidiaries, and support developing markets.
Collaborate with Project Managers and Field Managers on project approaches, product selection, difficult projects, jobsite situations, schedule impacts, and labor-cost forecasts.
Participate in buyout meetings, scope reviews, preconstruction meetings, and other project meetings to provide commercial-paint expertise and support seamless project starts.
Build relationships with general contractors through meetings, phone conversations, and entertainment, and help establish Cherry Coatings as the preferred choice.
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, meeting with general contractors, holding teams accountable, and following up regularly.
Support safety initiatives, quality control, production site walks, RPRS culture, employee retention, innovation and R&D, implementation, motivation, and manpower allocation.