Director of Manufacturing

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead Manufacturing Strategy & Operations
• Lead manufacturing operations across multiple product lines, ensuring scalable, efficient, and reliable execution.
• Set the long-term direction for manufacturing in alignment with company growth objectives, operational excellence, and customer expectations.
• Design and evolve operational systems, structures, and standard work that support consistency, quality, safety, and scalability.
• Establish clear performance expectations, accountability, and operational standards across the department.
• Drive Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
• Lead initiatives that improve safety, quality, throughput, efficiency, and overall team effectiveness.
• Identify operational constraints, diagnose root causes, and implement sustainable solutions that strengthen long-term performance.
• Use operational data and business insights to improve staffing, workflows, equipment utilization, and production capacity.
• Evaluate and implement technologies, systems, and AI-enabled tools that improve manufacturing performance and scalability.
• Expand Manufacturing Capability & Capacity
• Identify and lead the implementation of new manufacturing capabilities that support future business growth.
• Prioritize investments and operational improvements based on ROI, customer demand, strategic value, and production capacity.
• Ensure new capabilities are supported with the right people, processes, equipment, and operational standards.
• Partner Across the Business
• Collaborate closely with Purchasing, Sales, Service, Marketing, and Operations leaders to align manufacturing priorities with customer demand and company strategy.
• Communicate priorities, expectations, changes, and progress clearly across teams and leadership.
• Support business growth by aligning manufacturing capabilities with product opportunities and operational needs.
• Build High-Performing Teams
• Lead workforce planning efforts to ensure the organization can meet current and future operational demands.
• Champion employee development through cross-training, succession planning, and leadership development initiatives.
• Foster a culture of accountability, adaptability, ownership, professionalism, and continuous learning.
• Build and maintain a safe work environment that reinforces safe work practices across all manufacturing areas.

What Success Looks Like

• Manufacturing operations scale effectively while maintaining high standards for quality, safety, and reliability.
• Operational systems and standard work create consistency that does not rely on individual knowledge or working styles.
• Teams are aligned, accountable, and equipped to meet changing business and customer demands.
• Continuous improvement initiatives result in measurable gains in efficiency, throughput, team effectiveness, and operational performance.
• Manufacturing capabilities evolve to support future growth opportunities and strategic business objectives.
• Technology, systems, and process improvements simplify execution and improve operational performance without adding unnecessary complexity.
• Workforce development efforts strengthen flexibility, leadership depth, and long-term organizational resilience.
• Cross-functional partnerships improve alignment between manufacturing, customer needs, and company priorities.
• Operational decisions consistently support profitability, labor efficiency, capacity management, and long-term business value.
• Company values and operational excellence principles are reflected in day-to-day leadership, decision-making, and team culture.

Highly Valued Skills, Abilities, and Experience

• Strong leadership and people development skills, with experience building high-accountability teams, leadership depth, and succession plans.
• Experience leading manufacturing operations and scaling systems, teams, and processes to support growth beyond individual dependence.
• Strong strategic, operational, and business judgment, with the ability to balance safety, quality, capacity, technology, and financial outcomes.
• Ability to analyze operational data, performance metrics, and complex information to identify priorities, solve problems, and drive sound decisions.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing workflows, Lean principles, process improvement, capacity planning, and operational efficiency.
• Experience leading organizational change, process transformation, technology adoption, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Effective communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and align leaders and teams.
• Ability to connect operational decisions to broader business performance, including labor efficiency, margin, ROI, cash flow, and working capital.
• Commitment to safety, quality, accountability, professionalism, and continuous improvement.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work in manufacturing and warehouse environments.
• Prolonged periods of standing, walking, and observing operations as needed.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• May occasionally lift or move items related to manufacturing observation or setup.
• Ability to travel occasionally, if needed.

What Clickstop provides

• A purpose-driven career experience; discovering the opportunity to pursue your best self (as an employee, parent, partner, community member, etc.)
• An entrepreneurial environment where opportunities are endless for those who seek them.
• Meaningful collaboration opportunities across highly dynamic Clickstop teams.
• Recognition for personal, team, and company accomplishments.
• Competitive compensation and a highly valued full-time benefits package:
• Health Insurance ($0 Premium option), Dental & Vision Insurance
• Paid Holidays, Wellness, Volunteer, and Birthday PTO
• Life and Disability Insurance
• 401K Match
• ESOP – After one full year of service and minimum hour requirement is met

Employment is contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory background check.

Must be authorized to work in the United States.

Clickstop is an Equal Opportunity Employer.