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This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for a hands-on operations leader who is ready to influence the next chapter of a growing precision metal fabrication business. The role offers direct visibility to ownership, meaningful influence over facility strategy, and the ability to drive measurable improvements in people, process, performance, and long-term growth. Top 3 Initiatives the

Candidate Will Champion Upon Start:

Lead enterprise-wide lean manufacturing initiatives that increase throughput, eliminate waste, and strengthen productivity across the facility.
Build scalable manufacturing process capture and documentation systems that improve consistency, training, quality control, and operational accountability.
Advance production planning and forecasting practices to improve labor utilization, material readiness, schedule adherence, and on-time delivery performance.

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Provide leadership oversight for daily facility operations across fabrication, machining, finishing, maintenance coordination, staffing, material flow, shipping readiness, and workflow execution.
Lead and align production teams engaged in laser cutting, forming, rolling, bending, welding, and related metal fabrication processes to achieve safety, quality, delivery, and productivity goals.
Set operational priorities, allocate work, monitor production schedules, and drive accountability for customer commitments, internal deadlines, and on-time delivery performance.
Leverage blueprints, job orders, specifications, bills of materials, and manufacturing routings to ensure accurate execution, resource planning, and cross-functional production readiness.
Champion a proactive safety culture by reinforcing PPE compliance, housekeeping standards, policy adherence, and facility-wide ownership of safe work practices.
Develop frontline leaders and production employees through coaching, mentoring, performance feedback, skill development, and clear expectations for accountability and execution.
Partner cross-functionally with Quality, Safety, Maintenance, Engineering, Purchasing, Logistics, Shipping, office staff, and senior leadership to remove barriers, improve material flow, maintain equipment readiness, and protect product standards.
Oversee equipment performance and preventive maintenance coordination to support uptime, reliability, and long-term facility capacity.
Advance lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives that reduce waste, improve throughput, strengthen communication, and improve safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost performance.
Establish and communicate key operational performance metrics, including safety, quality, OEE, scrap, labor utilization, schedule adherence, on-time delivery, and production efficiency.
Ensure labor, materials, tools, supplies, and equipment resources are aligned with production priorities, customer requirements, and facility performance goals.
Serve as a strategic communication bridge between production employees, supervisors, management, and ownership, providing clear visibility into operational priorities, risks, and improvement opportunities.

Qualifications:

5+ years of progressive supervisory, plant, operations, or production leadership experience within metal manufacturing, precision fabrication, machining, or a similar industrial environment.
Demonstrated knowledge of metal fabrication operations, equipment, and workflow, including welding, forming, bending, rolling, laser cutting, machining, and facility-wide production flow.
Ability to interpret blueprints, technical job documentation, specifications, bills of materials, and manufacturing routings to support accurate execution, planning, and operational decision-making.
Experience leveraging ERP/MRP systems, production planning tools, scheduling disciplines, KPI dashboards, and operational data to improve visibility, accountability, and performance.
Proven success leading lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement initiatives that produce measurable gains in safety, quality, delivery, productivity, cost control, and throughput.
Strong people leadership capability with a track record of developing supervisors and production teams, coaching for performance, building accountability, and aligning employees around operational priorities.
Ability to collaborate effectively with ownership, senior leadership, engineering, quality, safety, maintenance, purchasing, logistics, and office teams to solve problems and advance facility goals.
Business-minded operational leader with strong planning, communication, organization, problem-solving, adaptability, and judgment in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills preferred, with the ability to use data to support production analysis, planning, and performance reporting.
Forklift certification preferred; Lean Six Sigma or related manufacturing certification preferred.
Bachelor's degree, technical degree, or equivalent hands-on leadership experience preferred.
Commitment to workplace safety, quality excellence, customer satisfaction, employee development, and overall facility performance.
Full-time, onsite leadership role with a Monday-Friday schedule.
Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance; retirement plan; life insurance; paid time off; and paid holidays.
Competitive compensation aligned with experience, leadership capability, and qualifications, with an anticipated range of $125,000-$175,000.

Ready to Lead What's Next? If you are a manufacturing leader who thrives in a hands-on, high-accountability environment and is energized by the opportunity to build systems, develop teams, and shape the future of a growing operation, we invite you to apply and start a conversation.

Pay:

$125,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Dental insurance Health insurance Health savings account Life insurance Paid time off Referral program Retirement plan Vision insurance

Education:

Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

Operational Leadership:

5 years (Required) Lean manufacturing: 5 years (Required)

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