The Manufacturing Chief of Staff is a senior strategic and operational leader who extends the capacity and effectiveness of the Executive Director of Manufacturing. The role converts enterprise manufacturing priorities into coordinated action across plants and functions, establishes a disciplined operating cadence, and ensures that the most important initiatives move from decision to execution. This position supports a growing multi-site manufacturing network. The Chief of Staff works across Manufacturing, Product Development, Engineering, Quality, EHS, Procurement, Transportation, Finance, and Human Resources to align decisions, remove barriers, improve accountability, and prepare the organization to scale. The successful candidate combines executive judgment, manufacturing fluency, program leadership, and strong written and verbal communication.
- Exercise a high level of professionalism and confidentiality when working with staff, projects and proprietary information.
- Serve as an advisor and thought partner to the Executive Director of Manufacturing, providing objective analysis, clear recommendations, and disciplined follow-through on critical business matters.
- Translate enterprise strategy into a focused manufacturing agenda with defined priorities, owners, milestones, decision points, and performance measures.
- Design and manage the manufacturing operating cadence, including weekly KPI reviews, monthly business reviews, quarterly planning, annual operating plans, and strategy deployment.
- Prepare executive briefings, decision documents, presentations, and communications for senior leadership; anticipate issues requiring executive attention and frame options and tradeoffs.
- Lead or coordinate high-priority cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple plants, including supply chain development, new facility startup, technology deployment, and operating model changes.
- Create consistent visibility to safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, labor, capacity, capital, inventory, and people performance; track commitments and drive timely closure of corrective actions.
- Strengthen alignment across plant and functional leaders, clarify decision rights and accountability, and support organization design, workforce planning, succession, and leadership development.
- Other duties as assigned.
