Vice President, Operations

About the role

The Vice President, Operations is responsible for the end-to-end execution of manufacturing operations across Maverick Power’s production footprint, ensuring safe, predictable, and scalable performance that supports growth, on-time delivery, and margin objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic & Executive Leadership
  Lead and execute the company’s manufacturing operations strategy aligned with enterprise growth plans and capacity expansion.
  Serve as the senior executive accountable for daily, weekly, and near-term production performance, ensuring commitments are met through rigorous execution.
  Translate enterprise objectives into clear, measurable expectations for operations leadership.
  Build Operations into a scalable, repeatable execution engine capable of supporting high-mix, ETO/CTO manufacturing and rapid growth.

• Making Decisions & Problem Solving
  Act with urgency while maintaining focus on long-term stability, safety, and sustainability of the operating system.

• Manufacturing Execution & Site Leadership
  Own day-to-day manufacturing execution across all production sites, ensuring adherence to approved plans, safety standards, and quality requirements.
  Lead, coach, and develop site leadership through Operations leadership team, establishing consistent standards for execution and accountability.
  Establish and enforce a common operating cadence that provides visibility into performance, risks, and recovery actions.
  Ensure execution performance is achieved through standard work, clarity of ownership, and disciplined escalation, not last-minute heroics.

• Production Flow, Throughput & Continuous Improvement
  Own manufacturing process performance, including throughput, cycle time, yield, labor productivity, and flow stability.
  Lead Manufacturing Engineering to continuously improve how work flows through the factory, including standard work, line balancing, ergonomics, and automation.
  Ensure new products, projects, and capacity expansions are supported by stable, repeatable, and scalable production processes timed to support volume ramp.
  Champion Lean principles, structured problem solving, and continuous improvement as core operating behaviors.
  Drive rapid stabilization of new lines and production ramps while protecting safety, quality, and inventory discipline.

• Leadership, Culture & Organizational Development
  Build and lead a high-performing, multi-site operations organization with clear roles, expectations, and development paths.
  Develop operational leaders who demonstrate Extreme Ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to operate at the right level of detail.
  Reinforce Maverick Power's core values in daily leadership behaviors: Bring Your Best, Get the Job Done, Win as a Team, Deliver "WOW", and Recognize and Reward Teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or Industrial Management preferred.
• Minimum of 15 years of progressive operations or manufacturing leadership in discrete manufacturing environments.
• Proven success leading large, multi-site manufacturing organizations, ideally in ETO/CTO or high-mix engineered product settings.
• Demonstrated experience scaling production capacity, including new facility launches or major expansions.
• Experience in electrical equipment, power distribution, industrial systems, capital equipment, or closely related industries strongly preferred.
• Track record of improving on-time delivery, throughput, and operational stability without compromising safety, quality, or inventory integrity.
• Deep understanding of manufacturing operations, production flow, Lean principles, and continuous improvement.
• Strong analytical capability across operational KPIs, including throughput, labor productivity, yield, and capacity.
• Familiarity with ERP/MRP systems and production execution environments.
• Executive presence with the ability to lead through influence, clarity, and accountability.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with complexity and competing priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or advanced technical degree strongly preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to twenty-five pounds at times.
• Work Environment: May work in various settings at the Maverick Power facilities, in offices, in multiple shops, and in commercial buildings. Maintaining the same position or posture while performing tasks and sitting for prolonged periods.