Division Vice President, Operations

Duties and Responsibilities

• Champion a zero injury safety culture and ensure full compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations across all locations.
• Lead global operations spanning six U.S. plants, Mexico, and Taiwan, with direct responsibility for Plant Managers, Engineering leaders, and the Supply Chain organization.
• Establish clear accountability and execution discipline to consistently achieve operational, financial, and quality targets.
• Define and execute Plant Operations strategies that support profitable growth, capacity expansion, and entry into new markets.
• Enable new product development and sustaining engineering across the AMC Business Unit, ensuring speed to market, design robustness, and manufacturability.
• Partner with Sales & Marketing to align operations capabilities with commercial strategy and customer commitments.
• Drive a culture of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement, improving quality, reducing cost, and enhancing on time delivery.
• Standardize best practices across sites, eliminate redundancy, and scale processes to improve efficiency and agility.
• Create and continuously improve best in class strategic sourcing and supply chain capabilities across the Business Unit.
• Own capital investment strategy and execution, ensuring Capital Appropriation Requests meet ROI and strategic objectives.
• Support plant leadership in implementing preventive and predictive maintenance programs to protect uptime, assets, and performance.

Position Requirements

• Proven expertise in multi site plant management and operational leadership.
• Significant global manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 15 years of progressive business experience, including at least 3 years in a comparable senior operational leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required; MBA or Master’s in Engineering strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success growing operations organically, scaling capacity, and entering new markets.
• Strong background in asset management, budgeting, and profit plan attainment.
• Ability to simplify complex organizations, eliminate redundancy, and drive enterprise alignment.
• Thrives in a lean, performance driven culture with high expectations and autonomy.
• High personal accountability; places team success above individual recognition.
• Confident, credible, and approachable—comfortable engaging at the shop floor or executive level.
• High integrity, strong work ethic, and respect for people at all levels.
• Executive presence and judgment to engage effectively with senior customers and corporate leaders.
• Willingness to travel 30–40% domestically and internationally.