Our client, a growing organization in the manufacturing sector, is seeking a Director of Operations to lead and scale day-to-day plant and distribution performance within a 24/7 environment. This role owns cross-functional execution across production, logistics, inventory flow, and continuous improvement while building the operating cadence, KPIs, and management routines needed for long-term growth. The Director of Operations will partner closely with executive leadership to align people, equipment, materials, and processes to consistently meet customer requirements.
Salary + Additional Benefits:
$110,000-$150,000
401K – company match
Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
Location: Houston, TX
Type of Position: Direct Hire
Responsibilities:
Operational Leadership
Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership for Production, Manufacturing, Distribution, Logistics, and other assigned operational functions.
Establish an operating cadence (daily performance reviews, weekly action tracking, escalation protocols) and ensure follow-through on commitments.
Serve as the primary operational integrator across Production, Distribution, Logistics, Inventory, Quality, Maintenance, Purchasing, Sales, HR/Safety, and Finance.
Translate sales demand, customer requirements, and inventory needs into coordinated production, staffing, material, and shipping plans.
Partner with executive leadership on capacity planning, capital priorities, organizational design, risk, and long-range growth.
Manufacturing
Direct plastic/extrusion and metal fabrication operations, holding production leaders accountable for schedule attainment, throughput, labor utilization, downtime, scrap, yield, quality, and safety.
Develop capacity plans that account for machine capability, staffing, materials, maintenance, changeovers, and demand.
Drive KPI discipline (OEE, schedule attainment, cost per unit, downtime, scrap, yield, first-pass quality) and ensure reporting accurately identifies root causes.
Identify chronic bottlenecks and lead structured corrective action and continuous improvement.
Distribution, Logistics & Inventory
Lead outbound distribution, shipping, receiving, freight, import activities, warehouse execution, and material movement.
Build a formal Logistics function with clear ownership of transportation, load planning, carrier performance, and shipping execution.
Establish controls (segregation of duties, approvals, documentation) for freight sourcing, purchase orders, and invoice review.
Ensure materials are verified, inspected, accurately entered into the ERP, and quickly available to operations.
Partner with Inventory Control to improve accuracy, location control, cycle counting, and scanning processes.
Continuous Improvement
Build a culture of continuous improvement using structured problem solving, root cause analysis, corrective action, standard work, visual management, and data-driven decision making.
Standardize processes across shifts and departments to reduce variation and reliance on tribal knowledge.
Improve workflow, layout, material movement, labor productivity, and changeover time.
Require sustained corrective action and verify effectiveness.
Develop dashboards and management routines with clear owners and due dates.
Safety, Quality & Compliance
Partner with HR/Safety to ensure compliance with OSHA and company safety programs (PPE, lockout/tagout, powered industrial trucks, machine safety, training), and enforce management accountability for incident prevention and hazard correction.
Partner with Quality to control incoming materials, in-process production, finished goods, and nonconforming product through documented processes.
Ensure adherence to approved SOPs, document control, and change management, and support product, customer, and certification requirements.
Financial & Executive Partnership
Manage to true cost drivers (labor, overtime, freight, scrap, downtime, inventory carrying cost, rework).
Partner with Finance on budgets, variance…