Manufacturing Operations Executive

SUMMARY

Mortenson is seeking a Manufacturing Operations Executive to lead BLUvera's manufacturing organization and build a safe, scalable, and high-performing multi-site manufacturing network. Reporting to the Director of Manufacturing, this executive will have enterprise responsibility for manufacturing operations across BLUvera's permanent, mobile, and project-proximate facilities.

The Manufacturing Operations Executive will translate business demand into predictable execution, aligning people, capacity, materials, facilities, and production systems to deliver safe, right-first-time, on-time, and cost-effective customer outcomes. This leader will establish consistent operating standards, performance expectations, leadership routines, and accountability across locations while developing an organization capable of supporting continued growth.

This role leads Senior Operations Managers and the broader manufacturing leadership organization, with responsibility for multi-site operational performance, capacity planning, standardization, continuous improvement, and leadership development.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead BLUvera's manufacturing organization across all operating locations, product families, and manufacturing models.
• Establish and execute the enterprise manufacturing strategy in alignment with BLUvera's business priorities, customer commitments, and growth plans.
• Own manufacturing performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost, throughput, labor efficiency, capacity, and team development.
• Lead, coach, and develop Senior Operations Managers and other manufacturing leaders responsible for facility and regional performance.
• Create clear accountability between enterprise manufacturing leadership, multi-site leaders, Operations Managers, Superintendents, production teams, and supporting functions.
• Establish a consistent BLUvera manufacturing operating system, including standard work, daily management, tiered accountability, visual performance management, escalation practices, and leader standard work.
• Build common performance standards, KPIs, scorecards, and operating rhythms across manufacturing locations.
• Translate backlog, forecasts, product requirements, and project demand into facility, labor, equipment, tooling, and capacity plans.
• Lead network-level decisions regarding production allocation, facility utilization, workforce deployment, production readiness, and operational tradeoffs.
• Ensure facilities have the leadership, workforce capability, production systems, equipment, materials, documentation, and support required to meet customer commitments.
• Partner with Supply Chain and S&OP leaders to improve material availability, production planning, inventory strategy, supplier readiness, logistics, and schedule stability.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering to industrialize products, establish capable production processes, improve layouts and flow, develop tooling and automation, and transition new products into repeatable production.
• Partner with Quality to embed critical-to-quality requirements, inspection standards, process controls, corrective action, and prevention into daily manufacturing operations.
• Partner with Safety leadership to create consistent expectations, eliminate operational risk, and strengthen a culture in which safe execution is fundamental to how work is planned and performed.
• Partner with Product Management, Project Management, Engineering, and Commercial leaders to improve upstream readiness and create successful handoffs into manufacturing.
• Establish production-readiness expectations so released designs, materials, technical documentation, labor plans, and quality requirements are complete before work enters production.
• Lead recovery planning and executive escalation for material operational risks, including safety exposures, quality failures, capacity constraints, schedule threats, labor gaps, and supplier disruptions.
• Drive standardization across locations while preserving the flexibility required to support different products, customers, workforce models, and project conditions.
• Lead continuous improvement across manufacturing by applying Lean principles, value-stream thinking, root-cause problem solving, process control, and disciplined countermeasure follow-through.
• Improve manufacturing flow, productivity, labor performance, cycle time, first-pass quality, schedule reliability, and asset utilization.
• Replace dependence on individual heroics with repeatable systems, documented processes, clear decision rights, and measurable performance.
• Create a structured approach for moving successful improvements from prototype to test, standard work, training, deployment, and sustained execution.
• Build manufacturing capability through workforce planning, succession planning, leadership development, technical training, and clearly defined career paths.
• Develop an engaged manufacturing culture grounded in trust, teamwork, accountability, respect, learning, service, and ownership.
• Evaluate organizational structure, spans of control, leadership capacity, and staffing needs as BLUvera's manufacturing footprint grows.
• Support manufacturing facility strategy, expansion planning, operating-model decisions, and capital investment recommendations.
• Develop business cases for equipment, automation, facility, workforce, and process investments based on capacity, safety, quality, cost, and customer value.
• Provide executive leadership with clear reporting on manufacturing performance, capacity, risks, constraints, recovery actions, and investment needs.
• Represent BLUvera manufacturing with customers, business partners, suppliers, and Mortenson leaders.
• Ensure the manufacturing organization consistently delivers on BLUvera's commitments while building the systems and capabilities required for future growth.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, engineering, operations management, business, construction, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Fifteen or more years of progressive manufacturing, operations, industrialized construction, fabrication, or related leadership experience preferred.
• Seven or more years of experience leading leaders and building high-performing operations teams preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading a multi-site manufacturing organization or a complex network of facilities and operating locations.
• Proven accountability for safety, quality, delivery, cost, workforce, capacity, and operational performance.
• Experience establishing and scaling manufacturing operating systems, standard work, daily management, performance metrics, and accountability routines.
• Strong knowledge of Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, value-stream management, production planning, capacity management, root-cause analysis, and structured problem solving.
• Experience leading through rapid growth, organizational change, new-facility launches, product introductions, or significant operational transformation.
• Ability to connect enterprise strategy to facility-level execution and daily production priorities.
• Ability to evaluate complex operational tradeoffs and make timely decisions using customer, financial, capacity, workforce, safety, and quality considerations.
• Experience partnering across manufacturing engineering, product engineering, quality, safety, supply chain, S&OP, project management, product management, finance, and commercial teams.
• Demonstrated ability to improve operational predictability, standardization, productivity, quality, schedule performance, and team capability.
• Experience developing leaders, strengthening succession pipelines, and building organizational capability across geographically dispersed teams.
• Strong financial and business acumen, including experience with operating budgets, labor performance, capital planning, cost reduction, productivity, and investment justification.
• Strong executive communication skills and the ability to translate manufacturing performance, risk, and opportunity into clear business recommendations.
• Ability to operate effectively in a growing organization where systems, structures, and capabilities are being created and matured.
• Experience in modular manufacturing, industrialized construction, precast, electrical integration, engineered products, or off-site fabrication preferred.
• Working knowledge of quality management systems, manufacturing readiness, new product introduction, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly, process capability, and configuration control preferred.
• Demonstrates behaviors consistent with Mortenson's values: trust, teamwork, safety, service, stewardship, and responsibility.
• Active listening and effective communication across multiple organizational levels.
• Commitment to equal employment opportunity and inclusive behaviors.

A few benefits offered include:  

(for Non-Craft & Non-Union Craft working 25+ hours / week) 

• Medical and prescription drug plans that includes no additional cost vision coverage  
• Dental plan  
• 401k retirement plan with a generous Mortenson match  
• Paid time off, holidays, and other paid leaves  
• Employer paid Life, AD&D, and disability insurance  
• No-Cost mental health tool and concierge with extensive work-life resources 
• Tuition reimbursement  
• Adoption Assistance   
• Gym Membership Discount Program   

The base pay range for this role is $168,100 - $252,200. (Actual range is higher for the following office locations: Denver, CO and Chicago, IL – 5%, Seattle, WA, and Portland, OR – 10%, Washington, D.C. – 12.5%). 

Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience, with consideration given to internal equity.   

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Please make note:  

• Visa sponsorship is not offered for this position.  
• Our postings are typically open a minimum of 5 days and an average of 44 days.  

ABOUT BLUvera 

BLUvera, a Mortenson affiliate, is the leading manufacturer creating solutions that are industrializing the construction industry. We provide innovative building solutions that deliver a faster, safer, and more predictable experience for construction projects. Our products are fabricated with unprecedented precision, accuracy, and speed, providing customers with a fast, cost-effective, and safer building solution.

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Equal Employment Opportunity 

Your uniqueness brings new and creative perspectives to the team. Mortenson is committed to providing equal opportunities of employment (EOE) to all individuals, regardless of your race, religion, gender, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, marital status or any other legally protected category. 

Other Items to Note 

• Mortenson reserves the right to hire any individual without legal or financial obligation on unwanted solicitations. No agency emails, calls, or solicitations are accepted without a valid agreement. 
• Must be currently legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status, 0-1, TN, CPT, OPT, etc.). We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.