PhoenixTailings is hiring a Vice President of Manufacturing Operations to lead the day-to-day operations across our production facilities. You will scale our clean metals manufacturing by driving world-class efficiency, quality, and safety. Your core mission is to own operational excellence, turning breakthrough technology into reliable, repeatable, and cost-competitive manufacturing.
What You'll Do
- Own end-to-end manufacturing operations across facilities, delivering consistent output, quality, and uptime.
- Design, implement, and enforce Lean manufacturing systems to drive continuous improvement across safety, yield, throughput, and cost.
- Lead Six Sigma initiatives to eliminate process variation, reduce waste, and improve first-pass yield.
- Establish operational KPIs, dashboards, and daily management systems that drive accountability and performance.
- Build scalable production systems, standard work, and operating procedures to support rapid growth and replication.
- Drive a culture of operational rigor, safety, and continuous improvement across all shifts and teams.
- Partner with engineering and technical teams to industrialize new processes and technologies.
- Lead capacity planning, staffing models, and production ramp strategies for new and existing facilities.
- Ensure compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations while maintaining aggressive production targets.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, or a related field.
- Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
- Demonstrated Lean manufacturing leadership experience.
- 10+ years of manufacturing operations experience in industrial, chemical, metals, or energy environments.
- Proven track record scaling production from pilot or early commercial stages to steady-state operations.
- Deep expertise in Lean tools including value stream mapping, standard work, Kaizen, TPM, and 5S.
- Strong data-driven mindset with experience using operational metrics to drive decision-making.
- Experience leading large, multi-shift production teams in high-safety, high-reliability environments.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cultural change and operational discipline in fast-growing organizations.
Nice to Have
- Advanced degree preferred.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $200,000-$250,000.
- Healthcare: 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing venture-backed company.
- Family Focus: Parental leave and flexibility for families.
- Time Off: Flexible vacation policy.
- Team Fun: Regularly scheduled events and celebrations.
- Learning: Opportunities to grow your skills and career.
- Great team: Working with fun, hard-working, kind people committed to making a difference.
- Flexible culture: Results-focused, not required to work at the office every day.
Phoenix Tailings, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we value diversity at all levels. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information, or any other applicable protected characteristics.
