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Director of Operations
Design and Production Incorporated
Lorton, USA
Full-time
Senior
Onsite
Discovered 4 weeks ago
Full Job Posting
- Take ownership of day-to-day operations across production, detailing, shop and field teams.
- Build an operating rhythm that gives teams clear priorities, anticipates bottlenecks and keeps multiple complex projects moving simultaneously.
- Drive accountability around schedule, cost, quality, productivity and safety.
- Turn design into reality.
- Own the critical transition from design intent and shop drawings through fabrication and installation.
- Ensure detailing is accurate, coordinated and fabrication-ready, while strengthening collaboration between project management, technical teams, the Shop and the field.
- Challenge processes and solve problems before they affect production or installation.
- Build a high-performance Shop
- Lead production planning and resource allocation across concurrent projects.
- Continuously improve workflows, capacity planning, productivity and quality.
- Make smart decisions about people, equipment, technology and infrastructure to increase D&P's ability to deliver increasingly ambitious projects.
- Oversee field operations and installation teams across active job sites.
- Lead and support site supervisors and field leads, ensuring seamless coordination between what happens in the shop and what happens on site.
- Set high expectations for execution, safety, quality and client experience through final installation and closeout.
- Develop the operation for the future.
- Identify where D&P can operate faster, smarter and more efficiently.
- Develop capital investment plans for equipment, tools and facilities.
- Oversee preventative maintenance, repairs and upgrades across shop equipment, facilities and the company vehicle fleet.
- Create scalable processes and operating standards that support D&P's next stage of growth.
- Lead people: Build, develop and challenge strong operational teams.
- Partner closely with Project Management and company leadership to anticipate resource requirements, resolve delivery issues and ensure operational priorities remain aligned with the business.
- A strong operational leader who creates structure and accountability.
- Highly comfortable in fabrication, construction, millwork, exhibits, specialty interiors or another bespoke production environment.
- Commercially minded, with a strong understanding of cost, productivity, schedules and margins.
- Hands-on enough to understand what is happening on the shop floor or job site, but senior enough to lead through others.
- Obsessed with solving problems and improving how things are done.
- Comfortable making decisions in a fast-moving environment with multiple concurrent projects.
- A strong people leader who can earn credibility with craftspeople, technical teams, project managers and senior leadership alike.
About Design and Production Incorporated
Construction115 employeesFounded 1949
Private U.S. museum exhibit fabricator serving museums, educational institutions, visitor centers, and corporate clients.
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