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🏗️ VP OPERATIONS | Employee-Owned Industrial Services Group (ESOP)
📍 Western New York Region
💼 Industrial Services | Fabrication | Construction | Field Execution
🧭 COMPANY
A long-established, 100% employee-owned industrial services group operating across fabrication, construction, rigging, installation, and field services.
This is a full lifecycle industrial execution business — taking complex equipment from fabrication through to install and long-term maintenance across heavy industrial, manufacturing, power, and infrastructure environments.
🚀 WHY THIS OPPORTUNITY STANDS OUT
- 100% employee-owned structure
- Long-term client relationships repeat industrial work
- Diversified revenue across multiple service lines
- No private equity churn or short-cycle pressure
📈 Growth & Transformation
- Active operational restructuring underway
- Dispatch function being elevated into a core strategic division
- Leadership succession planning in motion at President level
- Clear mandate to professionalize and scale operations
✅Core Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end operations across fabrication, construction, field services, dispatch, and quality
- Own project delivery performance, profitability, and P&L outcomes across all divisions
- Align and optimize cross-functional operations to improve efficiency, margins, and on-time execution
- Oversee resource planning, scheduling, and capacity management across shop and field
- Approve major bids and contracts (>$250K) and manage operational risk
- Develop and lead operational leadership teams, strengthening bench strength and succession readiness
- Implement KPIs and drive continuous improvement across all operational functions
💰Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) participation with long-term wealth upside
- Full executive benefits package (medical, dental, vision, retirement)
- Performance-based bonus potential tied to operational and financial results
- Long-term succession pathway into executive leadership (President-track opportunity)
- Stable, employee-owned structure with strong long-term security and reinvestment model
Salary : $250,000