Director of Operations & Manufacturing Excellence

Innovation, craftsmanship, and a customer-first mindset fuel our growth at Alloy Precision Technologies. Step into a role where your leadership elevates safety, quality, delivery, and cost—every day.

A day in the role

Your morning begins with cross-functional huddles, aligning production, supply chain, maintenance, and planning on the day’s priorities. You review dashboards that track delivery promises, schedule adherence, inventory health, and quality metrics. Midday finds you on the floor diagnosing a throughput constraint, coaching leaders, and reinforcing safe work practices. In the afternoon, you refine the operating rhythm: standard work, real-time schedule visibility, and continuous improvement plans. You close the day mentoring team members and shaping the next wave of operational objectives that sharpen customer service and profitability.

What you will lead

• End-to-end oversight of manufacturing operations, including production, supply chain, maintenance, production planning, and warehouse activities.
• Deployment of robust quality and efficiency standards that achieve performance targets and elevate product excellence.
• Ownership of safety leadership and environmental stewardship across all operations.
• Proactive resolution of production issues—investigating, analyzing, troubleshooting, and driving timely recovery plans.
• Design and implementation of on-time performance tracking to keep schedules visible and reliable, ensuring strong margins, responsive service, and consistent quality.
• Regular reporting on operational health, highlighting opportunities, risks, and results.
• Implementation of lean manufacturing and other flow/business process systems to reduce cost, improve quality, and increase profitability.
• Stronger cross-functional communication and collaboration with corporate teams and adjacent functions.
• Team building through mentoring, motivation, and effective delegation—empowering leaders to deliver results.
• Annual operating plans and programs that guide manufacturing, service, and distribution performance.
• Execution that meets or exceeds customer commitments and complies with AS9100 and all applicable regulations.
• Domestic and international travel as needed to support operations and customers.
• Additional assignments as directed by the President and Chief Executive Officer.

Supervisory scope

• Direct supervision of group leaders, supply chain, and production planning; scope may evolve as the organization grows.
• Full-cycle people leadership aligned with APT policies and applicable laws: recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training, work assignment, performance evaluation, recognition, corrective action, issue resolution, and career development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations Management, Industrial Management, Industrial Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering.
• 10+ years of manufacturing leadership experience; background in precision welding (TIG, laser, brazing, soldering), CNC/manual machining, and light assembly is advantageous.
• Strong digital fluency: Microsoft Office; experience with databases/ERP (e.g., Visual Manufacturing) and developing labor standards for cost structures is a plus.
• High energy, results orientation, confidence, and strong interpersonal influence; able to build rapport at all levels.
• Strategic, proactive, and persistent; comfortable juggling multiple projects and customers in a fast-paced setting.
• Adaptable and resilient within a dynamic, evolving culture; passionate about excellence and continuous improvement.
• Working knowledge of lean manufacturing required; Six Sigma experience is a plus.