Senior Director, Operations West Region
Denver, CO - USA
Job Summary
The Senior Director of Operations - West leads a manufacturing network of 8 plants across the Western US driving performance in service cost safety and quality. The role oversees operational strategy resource stewardship and continuous improvement ensuring alignment with the companys manufacturing excellence roadmap. This leader manages longterm operational planning while executing nearterm actions that enable structured sustainable change.
Key expectations include championing team safety building trust developing talent setting high performance standards communicating effectively enabling crossfunctional collaboration and acting as a resilient change agent. The position reports to the SVP of Operations.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead operational culture by building a highperformance valuesaligned environment across all manufacturing sites.
- Drive manufacturing excellence by advancing the manufacturing excellence roadmap and ensuring accountability for results.
- Embed lean practices by implementing lean systems and rootcause problem solving to improve processes and engagement.
- Oversee new product introduction by ensuring successful piloting and launch of new products.
- Ensure safety and quality by maintaining safe operations protecting company assets and upholding quality compliance and RightFirstTime performance.
- Develop talent and capability by building leadership and technical skills through targeted development and clear priorities.
- Optimize the cost structure by leading simplification and COGSreduction initiatives to deliver yearoveryear savings.
- Forecast workforce needs by determining workforce size and skill mix through datadriven planning.
- Promote inclusive leadership by fostering respectful inclusive relationships across teams.
- Strengthen work environments by maintaining productive welldesigned environments that support employee wellbeing.
- Oversee equipment and CQV by guiding new equipment planning and ensuring effective Commissioning Qualification and Verification processes.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors degree required preferably in engineering or business
- Masters degree preferred.
- 12 years of manufacturing experience across areas such as packaging process engineering warehousing and assembly.
- 5 years of peopleleadership experience with demonstrated success developing teams.
- Prior Plant Management experience required
- Multi-site leadership experience required
- Proven application of lean tools and systems to drive sustained continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated success leading transformational change in operations culture and team capability.
- Experience navigating complex operational challenges and delivering measurable performance turnarounds.
- Experience operating within formal management systems and ensuring compliant execution.
- Crossfunctional leadership experience with strong decisionmaking capability.
- Operational and financial acumen with experience overseeing key performance metrics.
- Strong understanding of supply chain functions including planning logistics quality materials management and inventory control.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to travel up to 50% within region as required.
Additional Information :
Why work for Cornerstone Building Brands
Our teams are at the heart of our purpose to positively contribute to the communities where we live work and play. Full-time* team members receive** medical dental and vision benefits starting day 1. Other benefits include PTO paid holidays FSA life insurance LTD STD 401k EAP discount programs tuition reimbursement training and professional development.Â
*Full-time is defined as regularly working 30 hours per week. **Union programs may vary depending on the collective bargaining agreement.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $230000 - $250000 along with bonus medical dental vision benefits starting day 1 and 401k and PTO. Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. Individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills experience and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process. (Full-time is defined as regularly working 30 hours per week.)
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Why work for Cornerstone Building BrandsÂ
Our teams are at the heart of our purpose to positively contribute to the communities where we live work and play. Full-time* team members receive** medical dental and vision benefits starting day 1. Other benefits include PTO paid holidays FSA life insurance LTD STD 401k EAP discount programs tuition reimbursement training and professional development.Â
*Full-time is defined as regularly working 30 hours per week. **Union programs may vary depending on the collective bargaining agreement.
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Cornerstone Building Brands is an Equal Opportunity Employer.Â
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age pregnancy genetic information disability or status as a protected veteran. You can find the Equal Employment Opportunity Poster here. You can also view Your Right to Work Poster here along with This Organizations Participation in E-Verify Poster here. If youd like to view a copy of the companys affirmative action plan for protected veterans or individuals with disabilities or policy statement please contact Human Resources at or If you have a disability and you believe that you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application please contact Human Resources at or This email is used exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only emails received for this purpose will be returned. Messages left for other purposes such as following up on an application or technical issues not related to a disability will not receive a response.
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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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Must be at least 18 years of age to apply.
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Note to External Recruiters
Cornerstone Building Brands does not accept unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees for any candidate submissions that were not expressly authorized.
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Notice of Recruitment Fraud
We have been made aware of multiple scams whereby unauthorized individuals are using Cornerstone Building Brands name and logo to solicit potential job-seekers for some cases job-seekers are being contacted directly both by phone and other instances these unauthorized individuals are placing advertisements for fake positions with both legitimate websites and fabricated ones. These individuals are typically promising high-paying jobs with the requirement that the job-seeker send money to pay for things such as visa applications or processing fees. Please be advised that Cornerstone Building Brands will never ask potential job-seekers for any sort of advance payment or bank account information as part of the recruiting or hiring process.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
Cornerstone Building Brands is a premier exterior building solutions provider serving both the residential and commercial markets across North America. The building products we manufacture are the cornerstone of the communities where people live, work and play -from homes to hospitals ... View more