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Liberty Diversified International · 12 hours ago

Director Operations

New Hope, MN

Full-time

Onsite

Director/Executive

$178K/yr - $222K/yr

10+ years exp

Liberty Diversified International is a privately held company with a focus on manufacturing and operational excellence. The Director of Operations plays a strategic role in overseeing operational performance across various functions, ensuring alignment with business goals and promoting a culture of safety and continuous improvement.

Packaging Services

Responsibilities

Set strategic direction for operations: Lead development and execution of short‑ and long-term strategies across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and distribution to achieve operational excellence and business goals

Establish and monitor KPIs: Refine role-aligned KPIs for engineering, production, quality, logistics, and DC performance; use data analytics to drive accountability, prioritize work, and continue the acceleration of continuous improvement

Champion safety and EHS partnership: Partner with EHS to embed a unified safety culture across all sites and DC; ensure safety metrics, training, incident reduction programs, and leadership visibility make people safety an uncompromised priority

Optimize business systems and digital enablement: Together with IT, select, implement, and govern business systems processes and tools (ERP, MES, WMS, PLM) and workflow tools that connect engineering, manufacturing, quality, and Supply Chain; build business cases and ROI analyses for technology and capital investments that drive measurable efficiency gains

Align product development with operations: Collaborate with Sales and Product Development to ensure manufacturability, supply chain readiness, and DC handling are considered early; serve as gatekeeper of the stage‑gate process to enforce compliance with engineering, quality, and operational standards

Define and maintain quality standards: Create and maintain product quality statements, specifications, and inspection protocols that reflect brand commitments and customer requirements; engage customers and industry standards to validate expectations and performance targets

Lead capital planning and delivery: Own capital strategy and execution across sites and DCs, including annual budgeting, project justification, vendor selection, installation, commissioning, performance validation, and post-project review; coordinate with enterprise and finance to align timing and maximize corporate leverage

Build a prioritized multi-year project pipeline: Develop and maintain a 3-year portfolio of projects focused on safety, productivity, capacity, emerging technologies, and cost reduction; ensure clear business cases, resource plans, and prioritization criteria to deliver impact on schedule

Drive cross-functional collaboration and talent development: Foster strong cross-business partnerships and standardize processes across engineering, manufacturing, quality, Supply Chain, and DCs; develop leadership, technical, and frontline talent to sustain operational capability and continuous improvement

Develops the operational and manufacturing budgets: Approves and monitors expenditures, reporting variance to budget

Travel up to 25%

Other duties, as assigned

Observes & enforces all company personnel, quality, and safety policies

Maintains a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner so that you work effectively and cooperatively with coworkers and leadership teams

Safely conduct work, in compliance with OSHA, company policies, and procedures

Lead (coordinate, facilitate, and motivate) the efforts of the individual, team, customer, and other resources associated with work or project activity. Ensure alignment on goals and deliverables

Risk management: Ensure risks are fully understood & have appropriate mitigation and contingency plans

Actively participates in facility and industry committees, events, and/or meetings

Qualification

Operations leadershipP&L ownershipQuality systemsCapital planningERP managementStakeholder managementLean Six-SigmaProject deliverySafety cultureData analyticsCommunication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree in engineering and/or operations or related field

Minimum of 10+ years of Operations and Manufacturing leadership experience

Demonstrated P&L ownership or accountability for operational budgets and cost to serve at the plant/DC level

Established experience owning quality systems and driving a safety culture

Familiarity with navigating regulatory and industry standards

Proven success in leading capital planning and project delivery

Experience managing ERP and operations technology

Track record of stakeholder management across sales, product development, finance, and enterprise teams

Ability to effectively handle multiple priorities and challenging deadlines

Strong sense of urgency and ownership

Self-starter, highly motivated with exceptional communication skills

Ability to see the larger picture of the business and the business needs to support continued growth with a focus on strategically and objectively assessing and prioritizing these “needs, (equipment, people resources, leader roles, and accountabilities)