Vice President of Operations

rovement to meet financial, delivery, and performance objectives in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities and Tasks

• Set and execute the Operations strategy to deliver safe, compliant, high-quality production aligned to corporate objectives.

• Lead day-to-day manufacturing execution to achieve cost, quality, delivery, and performance targets.

• Own the operational cadence for SIOP in partnership with cross-functional leaders: demand signal review, capacity planning, production planning alignment, constraint management, and executive-level tradeoff decisions.

• Establish disciplined, repeatable manufacturing processes that support high-rate production and scalability.

• Ensure rigorous configuration and change control so production builds to released requirements with controlled implementation of engineering changes.

• Drive operational excellence through standard work, labor and equipment utilization, yield improvement, and throughput optimization.

• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to industrialize new products, improve manufacturability, and increase production readiness and process capability.

• Maintain strong traceability and production records (lot/serial control where applicable), ensuring records integrity and customer/regulatory retention expectations are met.

• Lead nonconformance control and corrective action discipline (MRB support, root cause, CAPA) to reduce escapes, improve yield, and prevent recurrence.

• Ensure readiness for customer, regulatory, and government audits by sustaining objective evidence, training, and process adherence.

• Maintain compliance with applicable federal regulations and customer/quality requirements (including export-controlled handling expectations as applicable to operations).

• Build and develop a high-performing operations leadership team with clear accountability, execution rigor, and a continuous improvement mindset.

• Provide concise, data-driven reporting to senior leadership on operational performance, risks, and capacity outlook.

Education, Experience, Licenses and Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in business administration or similar (MBA preferred) and 8-12 years of related experience in order to be proficient in the above areas, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills and Abilities

• Executive operations leadership in regulated manufacturing

• High-rate production and capacity planning expertise

• SIOP execution and operational cadence leadership

• Compliance-driven manufacturing discipline (DoD / A&D)

• Continuous improvement and scalability mindsetEngineering partnership and industrialization experience

• Data-driven, decisive, and execution-focused leadership

• U.S. Citizenship

• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance

Supervisory Responsibilities

• 8-12 Direct reports

• 300+ Indirect reports

Travel and Physical Requirements

• 20% travel

• The physical demands describe here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee may encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. This job operates in a professional office environment and a manufacturing environment. The employee may be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The employee is occasionally exposed to a variety of extreme conditions in the plant. The noise level in the work environment may be loud.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, stand, talk, and communicate, use hands/finger, feel, and reach with arms. This position requires the ability to lift, bend or stoop as necessary up to 20lbs.

Benefits Highlights

Healthcare

• Robust medical, dental, vision, & disability coverage.

• Healthcare concierge to help you navigate your benefit selections.

• Virtual health solutions for physical therapy, menopause, and diabetes.

• Company paid Basic Life Insurance. Additional Life & AD&D Insurances are available.

• On-site wellness clinic.

Paid Benefits

• Competitive compensation.

• 401k program to plan for your future with company match 75% up to 8% plus 1% Employer contribution.

• Company Paid Time Off (Vacation and Sick).

• Paid parental leave.

• Adoption assistance.

• Fertility and family building assistance.

Additional Benefits

• Flexible work schedules available based on position:

  • 9/80 schedule providing every other Friday off

• Lifestyle spending account.

• Perks at work.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Voluntary benefits available: longer term care, legal, identity theft, pet Insurance, and many more options

These are highlights of Elbit America benefits. If there is a conflict with these highlights, company policy or benefits plan documents shall govern. Benefits are subject to change.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Accessibility

Sparton DeLeon Springs, LLC is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need special assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please email us at [email protected]

Disclaimer:

This job description does not list all the duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. The job description is not a contract for employment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

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