Director of Manufacturing, Central in Fully

Lignetics offers clean, renewable solutions.

We have 30 years of experience innovating eco-friendly essentials for everyday life.

Lignetics manufactures a variety of consumer brands in several different categories including wood pellets for home heating, BBQ pellets for grilling, wood pellets and shavings for animal bedding, and wood fiber-based cat litter.

Each of our products have unique features and benefits but are all linked with a wonderful recycled, renewable, sustainable, and carbon neutral story.

We turn recycled sawdust into value-added, branded consumer products.

Job Summary

The Director of Manufacturing provides strategic and operational leadership across nine manufacturing sites, driving safety, overall business performance, profitability, and operational excellence.

This role focuses on managing manufacturing as a business, balancing people, processes, resources, costs, quality, and customer commitments to achieve sustainable growth.

The ideal candidate takes a holistic, business-minded approach to decision-making, develops strong leadership teams, and aligns manufacturing operations with broader company goals while continuously improving efficiency, accountability, and financial performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Champions health and safety as a core value through behaviors, metrics and diligence.
• Use logic to analyze or identify underlying principles, reasons, or facts associated with information or data to draw conclusions; explore alternatives and propose quality solutions.
• Supervise others; identify the best person for a task, assign and direct work; conduct employee evaluations; staff training and development; take appropriate disciplinary/corrective actions; make hiring/termination recommendations; manage a work force to ensure fair employment practices.
• Communicate information and ideas clearly, and concisely, in writing; read and understand information presented in writing; listen to, and understand, information and ideas as presented verbally.
• Consistently operates in a collaborative manner.
• Applies emotional intelligence in day-to-day work and change management.
• Works on abstract problems across functional areas of the business.
• Identifies and evaluates fundamental issues for major functional areas through assessment of intangible variables.
• Make sound decisions to prevent serious impacts on the overall success of manufacturing operations.
• Responsible for ensuring that plants under his/her umbrella operate to the company quality management system.
• Establish objectives and specify the strategies and actions to achieve company/department goals and objectives.
• Establish and maintain measurable performance metrics for all levels of manufacturing activities.
• Report to management the measurable status of progress and corrective actions as it pertains to manufacturing operations.
• Estimate risks and apply risk mitigation techniques.
• Coordinate with Engineering on early design concept through prototype development and make suggestions providing input to alleviate potential manufacturability issues and or foreseen cost issues in design.

Requirements

Educations and Skills

• Must be a progressive operational leader with insights and behaviors to match a growing and progressive organization.
• Prefer Engineering, Manufacturing, Industrial Management degree or equivalent experience.
• Set goals, establishes priorities, manage resources, develop concept and approaches, review projects progress and results; make management decisions.
• Ability to work independently, strong teamwork and organizational skills.
• Strong computer skills including intermediate excel, excellent composition and grammar.
• Ability to engage a cross-functional team towards a desired outcome.
• Strong change management skills to include the practical implementation of Lean Manufacturing.
• Measurable experience mastering Manufacturing Principles and Concepts.
• Problem analysis and problem resolution at both a strategic and functional level.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong leadership, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to organize and plan use of time and people effectively and efficiently.
• Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arms-length, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Director Of Manufacturing Benefits
• Annual Bonus Eligibility
• Employee referral bonus program
• PTO + 2 floating holidays
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (FSA & HSA options)
• Educational assistance
• Life insurance, short term & long-term disability
• 401(k) with employer match & immediate vesting
• Employee heating pellet program
• Lignetics SWAG gear to include an annual pair of work boots & other PPE
• Salary

Job Type

Full Time

Travel Requirements

50%

Remote

This is a remote position, preference given to candidates that live in the central portion of the United States of America.

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