Vice President Operations - Commercial Paint (Required)

Cherry Coatings•San Antonio, TX

About The Position

Cherry Coatings is a family-owned commercial paint 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 maintaining a strong focus on safety, quality, and production, and assists Project Managers, Field Managers, and Foremen in meeting client needs. Deep operations experience in commercial paint environments is required. The position oversees regional commercial painting operations, develops and mentors field leaders, supports recruiting and retention, and works with project and city leadership to coordinate manpower, scheduling, project execution, and profitability. It collaborates with general contractors and internal teams to address project concerns, protect schedules and scope, resolve problems, and ensure work is completed safely, on time, and on budget. The role also contributes to training, innovation, operational improvements, new products and services, and the development of new markets. The role is expected to follow Cherry Coatings’ core values: Servant Heart, Cultivate, Act Promptly, Innovate, and Deliver. Key targets include zero recordables, zero general liability claims, strong gross margins, effective mentorship and training, appropriate staffing, and retention of quality field personnel leaders.

Requirements

Deep operations experience in commercial paint environments.
Ability to lead and oversee commercial painting operations while prioritizing safety, quality, and production.
Skills in problem solving, critical thinking, adaptability, strategic thinking and planning, accountability, mentoring and motivating, organization, time management, and decision-making.

Responsibilities

Oversee day-to-day commercial painting operations across the assigned region and maintain a safety-first culture.
Assist with recruiting and hiring field personnel, and train and mentor Project Managers, Field Managers, and Foremen.
Work with Project Managers and City Leaders to allocate manpower and staff projects appropriately.
Meet with general contractors to ensure client needs are met, project sequencing is protected, and problems are resolved.
Attend project meetings to address schedule or sequence concerns, change orders, quality, risk management, and safety.
Maintain accountability for change order logs and ensure extra work is accounted for on projects.
Review job cost sheets, schedules, and labor forecasts to support profitability and cost control.
Walk jobs with Project Managers and Field Managers to assess work and develop the team.
Review field staffing schedules to ensure the right personnel are assigned to the right projects.
Find, onboard, evaluate, and manage subcontractors, including setting pay rates and holding them accountable.
Evaluate and set safety standards for employees and subcontractors; ensure teams meet safety, quality, and production expectations.
Understand the requirements of different job types and how Cherry Coatings executes them.
Review operational problems and inefficiencies, take corrective action, and identify leaner ways to execute work.
Conduct routine Field Manager and Foremen meetings to identify concerns and improvement opportunities using the EOS System.
Conduct frequent job walks to verify safety, quality, and production standards.
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 the development of other 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 and scope reviews for potential projects; offer field expertise and build relationships with general contractors.
Evaluate training needs and provide training 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, establishing milestones and systems, meeting with general contractors, holding teams accountable, and following up regularly.
Support safety initiatives, quality control, production, site walks, recruiting and retention, innovation and R&D, implementation, motivation, and manpower allocation.
Work toward completing projects safely, on time, and on budget, while supporting gross-margin, safety, staffing, mentorship, and retention targets.