Chief Operating Officer

The Work: We Do Matters! We produce highly engineered and precision-machined components for critical aerospace and defense applications, including for munitions, jet engines, airframes, and other mission-critical platforms. Our products support the defense industrial base and ensure that the men and women serving our country have reliable, high-quality equipment. The COO will support and lead highly skilled and talented teams whose craftsmanship, technical expertise, and operational discipline directly contribute to products that serve our military, veterans, and national defense priorities. As the company continues to grow through current operations and future acquisitions, you will provide enterprise-level leadership over manufacturing operations, quality, engineering, supply chain, planning, maintenance, safety, and overall operational excellence driving consistent execution across sites and improving safety, quality, on time delivery, cost, and working capital performance. This role is ideal for an operations executive who enjoys working in a hands-on, high-growth environment, can bring structure without slowing momentum, and wants to have a direct impact on the future direction, growth, and success of the business. This is a remote based role within the continental U.S and this role will require 50-66% travel.

Key Responsibilities: Operational Leadership: Lead day-to-day and long-term manufacturing performance across current and future operating sites, ensuring consistent execution against business, customer, and operational priorities. Acquisition Integration: Establish common operating standards, reporting cadences, KPIs, leadership expectations, and scalable operating practices across acquired businesses. Manufacturing Performance: Drive measurable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, capacity utilization, schedule attainment, and operational discipline. Precision Manufacturing Discipline: Ensure strong execution across machining, manufacturing engineering, quality systems, production planning, maintenance, materials, and supply chain. Operating Systems and Processes: Build scalable processes for production planning, WIP control, job costing, inventory management, capacity planning, KPI reporting, and operational reviews. Leadership Development: Assess, develop, coach, and upgrade plant and operations leadership capability across the platform to support growth and long-term scalability. Continuous Improvement: Lead lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, root-cause problem solving, standard work, process improvement, and operational excellence initiatives. Customer and Business Support: Partner with commercial leadership and customers to support delivery performance, program launches, operational credibility, and growth. Financial Accountability: Partner with Finance and site leaders to improve margin, labor efficiency, cost control, working capital, capital investment planning, and overall operational financial performance. Safety, Culture, and Accountability: Build and reinforce a culture of safety, accountability, urgency, continuous improvement, integrity, and disciplined execution across all locations. This position requires compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations. As such, candidates must be a “U.S. Person” as defined by applicable law (e.g., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, or asylee/refugee).Basic (Required)

Pay Range: $225,000 to $290,000 plus bonus