Vice President Operations - Commercial Paint (Required)

Cherry Coatings•Phoenix, AZ

About The Position

Cherry Coatings is a family-owned commercial coatings contractor established in 1968, providing architectural, industrial, and maintenance coating services. The Vice President of Operations supports City Leaders with planning, leadership, and oversight of daily operations across the company’s markets. The role is essential to keeping operations focused on safety, quality, and production, and requires deep operations experience in commercial painting environments. The position works with Project Managers, Field Managers, Foremen, and City Leaders to meet client needs, allocate manpower, improve project execution, and maintain profitability. It also provides operational leadership on projects and supports the development of new markets, products, services, and subsidiaries. The role is expected to embody Cherry Coatings’ core values: putting others first, developing and mentoring people, responding promptly and accurately, innovating, and following through with excellence.

Requirements

Deep operations experience in commercial paint environments.
Ability to support operations focused on safety, quality, and production.
Skills in problem solving and critical thinking, adaptability, strategic thinking and planning, accountability, mentoring and motivating, organization, time management, and decision-making.
Ability to work with Project Managers, Field Managers, Foremen, City Leaders, general contractors, employees, and subcontractors.
Ability to travel or provide support across multiple city markets is implied by the regional and multi-market scope, but no specific travel requirement is stated.

Responsibilities

Oversee day-to-day commercial painting operations across the region.
Maintain and continually reinforce a safety-first culture, including with employees and subcontractors.
Recruit and hire field personnel, and find and onboard subcontractors; evaluate their capabilities, establish pay rates, and hold them accountable.
Train and mentor Project Managers, Field Managers, and Foremen, and evaluate training needs across the market.
Work with Project Managers and City Leaders to allocate manpower and staff projects appropriately.
Meet with general contractors to address client needs, protect project sequencing, solve problems, and establish what Cherry Coatings needs to succeed.
Attend project meetings to address scheduling and sequencing concerns, change orders, quality, risk management, and safety.
Ensure change-order logs are maintained and extra work is accounted for; review job-cost sheets to support profitability and cost control.
Review field-staff schedules to ensure the right people are assigned to the right projects.
Walk jobs with Project Managers and Field Managers to train teams and assess performance; conduct frequent job walks to verify safety, quality, and production standards.
Understand the requirements of different job types and how Cherry Coatings executes them; hold teams accountable for safety, quality, and production.
Identify operational problems and inefficiencies, take corrective action, and find leaner ways to execute work.
Conduct routine Field Manager and Foremen meetings to identify 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 new products, services, and subsidiaries, and support other markets as they develop.
Collaborate with Project Managers and Field Managers on innovative project approaches, processes, product selection, difficult projects, and jobsite situations.
Review schedule changes for their impact on project profitability and assist with forecasting project labor costs.
Participate in buyout meetings and scope reviews for potential projects; attend meetings to provide field expertise and promote Cherry Coatings to general contractors.
Lead market operations, attend L10 integrator meetings, lead L10 operations meetings, and attend L10 Project Manager meetings as needed.
Provide high-level leadership on problem jobs by conducting job walks, establishing systems and milestones to get projects back on track, meeting with general contractors, holding teams accountable, and following up regularly.
Support safety initiatives, quality control, production, site walks, RPRS culture, training and mentoring, recruiting and retention, innovation and R&D, implementation, motivating people, and manpower allocation.
Work toward the stated project and department deliverables, including gross-margin goals, zero recordables, zero general liability claims, retention of quality field leaders, employee training, a mentorship program, appropriate manpower levels, and the specified subcontractor-to-employee ratio.