Director of Production

Company Description

Honey Badger Fabrication is a highly capable and diverse design and fabrication shop specializing in immersive retail and experiential environments. The team partners with agencies, brands, architects, designers, and other creative professionals to deliver custom, larger-than-life builds. The company focuses on turning ambitious concepts into functional, high-impact spaces while minimizing complexity for clients. Team members work in a hands-on, collaborative environment where problem-solving and craftsmanship are highly valued. This is an opportunity to contribute to unique, visually striking projects from concept through fabrication.

The Director of Project Management owns consistent, profitable execution across Honey Badger’s full project portfolio. This role leads the Project Managers, sets the bar for how projects get run here, and protects scope, schedule, budget, quality, and client experience from kickoff through install and closeout. This seat is the escalation point when risk shows up or handoffs break down, and will jump into day-to-day project management when the workload demands it, installs are high-stakes, key accounts need extra attention, or a project needs a rescue.

Responsibilities

Lead the PM team and build bench strength

• Sets clear expectations for PMs and holds the non-negotiables (cadence, documentation, change control, QC gates).
• Coaches by reviewing real outputs (monday.com boards, Fabrication Decks, client updates, meeting readiness) and giving direct, specific feedback.
• Owns onboarding, training, and performance management for PMs (including interview support and hiring recommendations).
• Plans PM coverage and workload balance, including owning projects when business requires.

Own the execution cadence and cross-functional alignment

• Makes sure the daily and weekly rhythms are real, effective, and actually followed: daily production meeting, kickoffs, install readiness reviews, post-mortems, etc.
• Holds PMs accountable to showing up prepared with status, risks, decisions needed, and next actions.
• Partners with CEO, Designer, Technical Director, and Production Manager to unblock work fast and call the tradeoffs when needed.

Own the project system of record

• Sets the standard for monday.com accuracy and completeness across all projects (owners, due dates, dependencies, daily updates, risks flagged early).
• Sets the standard for the Google Slides Fabrication Deck and makes sure it matches the current plan and scope.

Protect schedule, margin, and change control

• Forces early escalation of schedule and margin risk, with a recommended plan and clear owners.
• Enforces change control so scope shifts are documented, priced, and approved before work proceeds whenever possible.

Drive quality and install readiness

• Requires specific QC gates and makes sure sign-offs happen on time.
• Ensures PMs implement simple error-proofing checks for preventable misses.

Own communication standards when stakes are high

• Sets the standard for client updates: concise, decision-oriented, and on schedule (more frequent during fabrication and install windows).
• Steps into client communication and damage control on high-risk or high-visibility projects.
• Ensures approvals, decisions, and changes are documented in writing and stored in monday.com.

Core Values

Integrity

• Documents approvals, changes, and decisions in writing and logs them in the system every time.
• Does not overpromise timelines or capability; protects safe, buildable delivery.
• Protects confidentiality of client, vendor, and internal information.

Accountability

• Operates with “fault falls upward” and owns PM team outcomes without blame.
• Owns mistakes quickly, closes loops, and implements a prevention step.
• Addresses performance issues directly with coaching, clear expectations, and follow-through.

Solutions Only

• Brings options and a recommendation when problems hit.
• Keeps the team focused on next actions that protect deadline, quality, and margin.
• Uses post-mortems to implement fixes (templates, checklists, standards), not to vent.

Anticipate the Next Move

• Plans installs backward from deadline and requires readiness confirmation before installation.
• Builds backup paths for materials, vendors, sequencing, and labor when timeline risk exists.

Clear Concise Communication

• Runs short, action-focused meetings that end with owners and due dates captured in monday.com.
• Writes updates that are direct, organized, and easy to scan with clear decisions needed.

Key Performance Indicators

Weekly, monthly, or per-project measures:

• On-time milestone hit rate across the portfolio (design approval, engineering release, procurement arrival, fab start, finish start, QC complete, ship, install).
• Portfolio gross margin vs estimate (with documented variance drivers and prevention actions).
• QC gate completion rate (on-time gates, punch list closed before ship).
• Install success (completed within window, punch list size, post-install fixes required).
• monday.com accuracy (daily updates, correct owners, dependencies, risks flagged early).
• PM coverage and development (1:1 completion rate, onboarding completion, measurable PM improvement in weak areas).