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VP, Manufacturing at Prince Industries LLC | LAYIQ

Provide leadership, guidance, and oversight to six manufacturing plants.
Develop, optimize, and manage KPI’s for continuous improvement, machine capacity, labor capacity, efficiency, utilization, productivity, and safety. Standardize KPI’s and dashboards across all plants in partnership with IT.
Evaluate plant org structures and optimize them for efficiency, effectiveness, and cost.
Continuously identify cost and throughput improvement opportunities. Ensure resources are assigned and project plans are visible, tracked, and executed on time and budget.
Demonstrate a high EQ; enabling effective listening, communication, and change management across the different levels and leadership styles across the six plants.
Instill a data-driven, proactive, solutions-oriented mindset into site leadership teams.
Develop, mentor, and hold accountable all team members. Build a culture of urgency, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Provide written and/or oral reports on plans and results to the Executive Team and the Board of Directors.
Required Experience & Education
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field required.
5+ years of multi-site Manufacturing leadership, with significant experience in precision machining environments that serve Aerospace, Defense, or MedTech required.
Demonstrable experience improving factory performance (quality, delivery, lead time, scheduling, gross margin) while revenue is growing 15-20% per year.
Experience successfully integrating acquisitions into a plant portfolio.
Strong knowledge of machining (aluminum, titanium, stainless steel, nickel alloys) and machine tools (VMC, HMC, 5-AXIS, Mill-Turn, Lathe, Swiss).
Experience building and aligning KPI’s across multiple manufacturing plants.
Strong business acumen with the ability to connect decisions to cost, delivery, quality, customer satisfaction, and profitability.
Excellent leadership, communication, problem-solving, and change management skills.
Preferred Experience
Familiarity with AS9100 QMS systems
Experience operating within an ITAR environment
Experience in a high growth (15%+ per year) manufacturing company
Epicor Kinetic or similar ERP
Experience operating in $150M-$300M revenue Private Equity backed companies
Key Competencies
Strategic and tactical multi-plant leadership
Knowledge of Aerospace and Defense precision machining and fabrication
Continuous improvement mindset
Data-driven decision-making
Cross-functional communication
Change management and team development
Success Measures
Uniform KPI’s in place at each plant to measure and improve gross margin, capacity, variances, safety, efficiency, utilization, and productivity
Reduce volume-adjusted direct and indirect labor costs by 5% by driving efficiencies, process improvements, and automation.
Develop a CAPEX strategy to ensure CAPEX spend is less than 5% of sales.
Past due orders sustained at less than 2% of monthly sales and OTD at 95%.
Minimum of 2 shifts fully operational across all sites.
Objective feedback from executives and site leaders confirming success.
Due to ITAR regulations, only U.S. persons—defined as U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents (Green Card holders), and U.S. nationals—are eligible for this position.
*We are an Equal Employment Opportunity ("EEO") Employer. Applicants can learn more about Prince's status as an equal opportunity employer by viewing the federal "EEO is the Law" poster (https://www.eeoc.gov/employers )

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