The Role

CABN is hiring a Chief Operating Officer to do three things exceptionally well: multiply revenue, build the team that makes growth durable, and industrialize our production system. You will report to the founder & CEO and hold end-to-end accountability for converting a signed order book into delivered homes, recognized revenue, and defended margins - while scaling an 18-person team through a committed hiring plan, leading an interim span of eight-plus reports until new entity VPs land, and multiplying what our Brockville factory can reliably produce.

What You Will Own

- The full revenue-delivery cycle: contract, production slotting, site delivery, handover, collection.

- Commercial partnership with the CEO: pricing, unit economics, and growth across B2B, municipal, government, and First Nations channels.

- The manufacturing line: throughput, takt, OEE, utilization, and cost per unit - and completion of CSA A277 factory certification.

- The automation roadmap: ROI-ranked capital projects in digital fabrication and factory automation, building on our robotics line, from business case through commissioning.

- A lean production system with quality built in - exceeding the Ontario Building Code and CABN's energy-performance specifications.

- The people system: org design, executive and frontline hiring (including entity VP searches), performance, retention, a trades-and-technician training pipeline with our college partnership, and a safety-first culture.

- Supply chain and site delivery, end to end - including FSC-certified mass-timber sourcing.

- Operations accountability across the CABN group: factory, project delivery, construction licensing readiness, and Ontario OHSA/WSIB/WHMIS compliance - through leaders you hire.

Your First Year

- Multiply revenue against a CEO-set target while holding or expanding gross margin.

- Land a committed hiring plan - including new entity VPs - and stand up the leadership team that scales production and delivery.

- Scale throughput and cut cost per unit; get a phased automation roadmap approved and phase one delivered.

- Complete factory certification and construction licensing milestones.

- Institutionalize KPIs, reporting cadence, and documented safety and quality management systems.

Who You Are

- Senior operations leadership (COO, VP Operations, GM, or Plant GM) with full P&L or budget accountability in a growth-stage company - and demonstrated revenue outcomes, not just cost control.

- Strong understanding of construction: residential or commercial build processes, project delivery, trades coordination, building-code fluency.

- A proven organization builder: you have scaled teams, hired leaders, and kept the people you hired.

- Hands-on automation credibility: you have specified, justified, and commissioned factory automation - not just supervised it.

- Lean manufacturing depth (standard work, takt, quality-at-source) with the financial fluency to defend unit economics to a Board.

- Contract and capital discipline: hands-on CCDC contract administration (CCDC 5A/B, CCDC 2, and CCDC 32 progressive design-build) and Ontario Construction Act fluency - holdbacks, prompt payment, lien-period management.

- Lender-grade delivery: a track record executing projects under institutional lender or CMHC scrutiny - certified progress draws, milestone billing, and covenant awareness.

- Multi-entity operating experience: you have run operations across a corporate group with arm's-length intercompany contracting and clean related-party discipline.

- Public procurement: experience winning and delivering through government and institutional procurement - RFP/RFI responses and public-sector delivery frameworks.

- An AI-literate operator: demonstrated adoption of AI and digital operating tools to run lean - at CABN, AI systems carry coordination, reporting, and billing mechanics, and the operating model depends on an executive who works that way.

- Partnership credibility: demonstrated trust-building and delivery with First Nations, municipalities, and government partners.

- Major assets: prefab/modular/offsite construction experience; homebuilding background; engineering, construction-management, or related technical education (MBA an asset); experience with government-funded innovation programs (NGen, SR&ED) and their audit-ready documentation; factory certification experience (CSA A277 or equivalent); apprenticeship or college training-pipeline building; formal safety-system credentials (COR, ISO 45001); cross-border manufacturing or US market delivery; exposure to regulated utility or infrastructure operations.

Compensation

Competitive base salary, a significant stock option grant, and a performance bonus deliberately engineered around revenue multiplication with a hard gross-margin gate and a scaled-execution scorecard - growth that erodes margin, safety, or build quality does not pay. Equity is the centrepiece: this role is designed so that the operator who multiplies and industrializes CABN participates meaningfully in the value created. Full details shared in process.

Location, On-Site Presence & Travel

This role is based at CABN's 85,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Brockville, Ontario. The mission is executed on the floor and in the field: a minimum of three days per week on-site in Brockville is a threshold requirement, established in the first conversation, with additional presence expected during production ramps and critical project phases.

- Relocation and moving support is available for the right candidate - terms discussed at offer.

- Regular travel to active project sites, partner communities, and supplier facilities is part of the role; business travel is covered under company policy.