Join a business at a pivotal moment of growth and transformation. As a key member of the Casting Business Unit Leadership Team reporting directly to the Business Unit President, the Director of Operations & Supply Chain will play a critical role in shaping the future of the organization by driving operational excellence, accelerating performance, and building the capabilities required for long-term competitive advantage.

This executive leader is responsible for the strategy, performance, and continuous improvement of a multi-site manufacturing and supply chain organization, leading manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and operational excellence functions. The role offers a unique opportunity to influence business strategy while delivering safe, reliable, and cost-effective operations that support customer success and profitable growth.

The Director of Operations & Supply Chain will lead the organization's Operational Excellence transformation through Lean Enterprise and Toyota Production System (TPS) principles, advancing world-class operating capabilities, strengthening leadership talent, and driving the adoption of innovative technologies and processes. Success in this role requires a visionary leader who can balance strategic thinking with disciplined execution, inspire organizational change, and create a culture where people, performance, and continuous improvement thrive.

Position Specifics

• This position ideally sits onsite in Mequon, WI alongside our Casting leadership team with secondary locations in Woodstock, IL or Shawano, WI at our plant operations locations.
• Relocation assistance available
• Position requires travel at least 30%

What you’ll do

Strategic Leadership & Business Performance

• Develop and execute the operations and supply chain strategy required to achieve business objectives, strengthen competitive advantage, and support long-term growth, including capital, capacity, technology, and capability investment roadmaps.
• Serve as a key member of the Business Unit Leadership Team, contributing to business strategy development and ensuring operational priorities are aligned with strategic objectives.
• Own operational financial performance, including budgets, spending, productivity improvement, working capital management, and cost structure optimization in support of revenue and profitability objectives.
• Lead the evaluation, justification, and implementation of capital investments, automation, new technologies, and process innovations that improve operational capability and business performance.

Operational Excellence & Transformation

• Lead the organization's Operational Excellence transformation through Lean Enterprise and Toyota Production System principles.
• Drive the adoption of new technologies, automation, and process innovations that improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and overall competitiveness.
• Ensure robust management systems exist across safety, quality, environmental, operational, and business processes to support sustainable performance and future growth.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Build organizational capability, leadership talent, and succession pipelines required to support current and future business needs.
• Develop a deep and diverse leadership bench through coaching, succession planning, and intentional development of future operational leaders characterized by accountability, collaboration, engagement, and a relentless focus on results.

Safety, Quality & Customer Excellence

• Champion a culture of safety by ensuring a safe working environment, visible leadership engagement, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement in safety performance.
• Serve as the voice of the customer within operations, ensuring customer requirements are consistently met or exceeded through superior quality, delivery, responsiveness, and execution.
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Commercial, Quality, and other stakeholders to successfully launch new products, technologies, and processes while achieving customer commitments and operational objectives.

Supply Chain Leadership

• Lead supply chain functions to ensure effective planning, procurement, sourcing, logistics, inventory optimization, and supplier performance management.
• Develop and maintain strategic supplier partnerships that enhance supply continuity, quality, responsiveness, innovation, and total cost competitiveness.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the Casting Division's multi-site operations organization, including Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Operational Excellence.
• Directly lead Plant Managers, Supply Chain leadership, Quality leadership, and Operational Excellence leadership while developing organizational capability and succession strength throughout the operations organization.

What you’ll need

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience, including significant responsibility for multi-site operations, supply chain, or related business functions.
• Proven success as a Plant Manager, Operations Manager, or equivalent senior operations leadership role.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute operational strategies that improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and overall business performance.
• Deep expertise in Lean Enterprise, Toyota Production System (TPS), and continuous improvement methodologies, with a proven track record of leading sustained, large-scale operational transformations.
• Demonstrated success building high-performing teams, developing leaders, and driving accountability and engagement throughout the organization.
• Experience leading supply chain functions, including planning, procurement, sourcing, logistics, inventory optimization, and supplier performance management.
• Proven ability to lead change, influence across functions, and align teams around strategic business objectives in complex manufacturing environments.
• Strong business acumen, communication skills, and executive presence, with the ability to effectively engage employees, customers, suppliers, and senior leadership.
• Follow Environmental, Quality and Safety Management System procedures and requirements.
• Ability to meet the essential job requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation, as outlined in the job description.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Business Administration (MBA), Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading operations within metals manufacturing or other capital-intensive manufacturing businesses.
• Demonstrated success leading Lean transformations utilizing Toyota Production System principles.
• Experience leading complex, multi-site manufacturing organizations through significant growth, operational turnaround, capacity expansion, acquisition integration, or business transformation initiatives.
• Proven success developing high-performing leadership teams and building organizational capability through succession planning and talent development.

The annual hiring range for this position is: $168,900-$211,100. The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will depend on various factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and qualifications. Compensation decisions are tailored to the unique circumstances of each position and candidate.