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Director of Operations

Fairfax, VA 4 days ago

Job Description

The ideal candidate is a highly analytical leader who will join our senior management team. You will be responsible for leading the company's day-to-day business operations (managing the company budget, ensuring operational compliance is followed, and addressing administrative issues).

What You Will Own

Production Execution

  • Oversee all deck and outdoor living builds from handoff to completion
  • Ensure every job hits schedule and margin targets
  • Drive daily accountability across crews and project managers
  • Overseeing inventory, equipment maintenance, and material logistics.

Scheduling & Capacity

  • Build and control the master production schedule
  • Align labor, subcontractors, and material flow
  • Forecast capacity based on sales pipeline
  • Eliminate downtime and inefficiencies

Margin Protection

  • Track job costing in real time
  • Identify labor overruns immediately
  • Reduce waste and rework
  • Install KPI accountability across the department
  • Gross margin
  • Labor efficiency
  • Cycle time
  • Callbacks
  • Schedule variance

Systems & Structure

  • Build repeatable workflows
  • Standardize scopes and build processes
  • Tighten the sales-to-production handoff
  • Implement checklists and quality control systems

We don’t operate on memory. We operate on systems.

Leadership

  • Lead from the front
  • Hold people accountable
  • Develop crew leaders
  • Set performance standards that stick

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