What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President of Manufacturing position at PARR?
PARR is the total source for homebuilding supplies, solutions, and services. We focus on supplying building materials and solutions to professional home builders of all sizes including custom builders, large production builders, and multifamily builders. Our customers and community members know that they can rely on us for Legendary Service and quality products.
Job title: Vice President of Manufacturing
Total compensation: Starting at $185k - $235k a year, depending on experience Profit Sharing
Schedule: Monday-Friday with the working hours falling between a 7 am to 5 pm window, with extra hours and weekend work as needed.
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
The Vice President of Manufacturing provides strategic and operational leadership for the company's manufacturing operations and related field execution functions. This role is responsible for safety, quality, cost delivery, pricing discipline, and people leadership across multiple manufacturing facilities and field-based teams, ensuring consistent performance, scalable processes, and strong financial outcomes.
This leader will balance hands-on operational rigor with long-term capacity planning, cost management, and pricing strategy, partnering closely with Sales, Purchasing, People Operations, Finance and Field Operations to support profitable growth and customer commitments.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; engineering, operations, or supply-chain related discipline preferred.
- 12 - 15 years of progressive leadership experience across manufacturing and/or operational execution environments.
- Experience in building materials, construction products, or related industries strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to lead both plant-based and field-based teams.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing cost drivers and their application to pricing and margin decisions
Leadership Competencies
- Strategic thinker with strong operational execution skills.
- Data-driven decision maker with strong financial acumen.
- Proven ability to scale sales organizations while improving margins.
- Strong communicator capable of influencing at all organizational levels.
- Hands-on, humble leadership style aligned with PARR's values of integrity, partnership, and long-term relationships.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Leadership
- Provide executive oversight of all assigned manufacturing facilities, including production, safety, quality, maintenance, and logistics coordination.
- Establish and monitor KPIs related to throughput, labor efficiency, on time delivery, scrap, rework, warranty exposure, and safety performance.
- Drive consistency in manufacturing standards, work instructions, and quality expectations across locations.
Field Operations and Installation Oversight
- Provide executive oversight of field‑based execution teams supporting customer fulfillment and installation activities.
- Ensure strong coordination between manufacturing output, delivery schedules, and field execution to minimize delays, rework, and warranty risk.
- Establish performance metrics for field operations, including job cycle time, callbacks, quality outcomes, safety performance, and customer experience.
- Partner with operational leaders to improve labor planning, productivity, and execution consistency across plant and field environments.
Safety and Compliance
- Champion a strong, proactive safety culture across both manufacturing and field operations.
- Ensure compliance with OSHA and applicable state and local workplace safety and employment regulations.
- Partner with People Operations and plant leaders on incident prevention, investigation, and corrective action.
Financial, Capacity and Pricing Leadership
- Own manufacturing and field operations budgets, labor planning, productivity targets, and capital expenditures.
- Lead medium and long‑term capacity planning across production and field execution functions.
- Establish and maintain pricing strategies for manufactured products in partnership with Sales, ensuring pricing reflects operational costs, labor and capacity constraints, market conditions, and margin objectives.
- Provide guidance on pricing adjustments related to material volatility, labor availability, lead times, and operational complexity.
- Partner with Finance and Sales to ensure pricing discipline, margin protection, and consistent application of pricing frameworks.
Cross Functional Partnership with Sales
- Serve as a key partner to Sales leaders to support profitable growth and customer commitments.
- Align manufacturing capacity, field availability, lead times, and pricing decisions with sales strategies and customer expectations.
- Participate in escalation decisions related to complex bids, non‑standard work, or capacity‑constrained opportunities.
People and Leadership Development
- Lead, coach, and develop manufacturing and field leadership teams.
- Establish strong performance management, succession planning, and leadership development practices.
- Partner with People Operations on workforce planning, compensation alignment, engagement, and retention strategies.
Continuous Improvement
- Lead continuous improvement efforts focused on efficiency, quality, safety, margin performance, and employee engagement.
- Encourage frontline and field involvement in problem‑solving and operational excellence initiatives.
Physical Requirements
- Primarily based in an office environment with regular travel to PARR locations across the Pacific Northwest.
- Occasional overnight and out-of-state travel is required for meetings, industry events, and strategic engagements.
- Must maintain a valid driver's license and be comfortable traveling by car or air as needed.
Direct Reports:
Direct Reports – Plant General Managers
Indirect Reports – Manufacturing Teams
We know that without great people, we can't be a great company. Voted the fourth top place to work in Oregon in 2023, we offer industry-leading benefits:
- Everyone starts earning 2 weeks of vacation per year on day 1, and gains an additional day every year worked up to 4 weeks off
- Employee paid sick days
- 7 holidays
- Standard plan with a very low $1,000 deductible
- Dental, Vision, EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
- Massage, Chiropractic and Acupuncture coverage
- FSA (Flexible Spending Account) and Childcare pretax spending programs
- Up to 50% match on the first 6% you contribute to your 401(k) after 1 year of employment and fully vested at the end of your 3rd year
- In addition to the 401(k) match, there a 3% profit share contribution to the 401(k), with Board approval
- Tuition reimbursement (up to $2,500/year)
- Annual profit sharing (every full time employee who worked the full year earned a minimum of $2,700 for the 2020 year)
- $1,000 referral bonus
PARR Promotes!
We have a transparent pay structure, and love to promote from within. Our current CEO started with the company as a driver and by being open to change and a self-starter he climbed the ranks to the role he has today. There are many members of our management team who started their careers in our entry-level positions. If you're willing to work hard, there's no reason you won't earn regular merit increases and promotions. There is A LOT of opportunity - PARR is growing fast!
We value our employees like family and are constantly working to provide a safe place to work for our employees. Most of our locations are not open past 5 and all our locations are closed on Sundays.
Our company mission is Legendary Service through Teamwork, and we take that seriously. When you join our team, you're joining a family-owned company that's been in business for 90 years, with a well-established reputation as a leader within the building material supply industry in the United States.
Salary : $185,000 - $235,000