Vice President, Programs
About Re:Build Manufacturing
Re:Build was founded to ensure that the next generation of important products are made, at scale in America. We've assembled a powerful set of complementary capabilities and lines of business that enable us to design and manufacture nearly anything. Our acquired and organically grown businesses employ experts in every major engineering discipline, and we're leveraging their combined expertise to migrate to increasingly sophisticated program development and production, as well as the generation of our own products. Our unique set of capabilities – integrated into a single company and built upon common processes and culture - lend themselves to highly complex systems and products, and we offer customers a range of services including product and systems design, automation, fabrication, assembly, and large volume manufacturing. Our customers span a wide array of industries including aerospace, defense, mobility, healthcare, pharma, biotech, clean tech, chemicals, energy, lifestyle, food production, and industrial equipment.
The way we go about this work is as important as the work itself and is guided by The Re:Build Way, sixteen principles that dictate the way we work with each other, customers, vendors, and the communities where our business operates (link to The Re:Build Way principles).
Position Overview
Re:Build Manufacturing is seeking a Vice President of Programs to lead the transformation of a $100MM+ business into a core growth engine for the company. This leadership role will drive the operational, technical, and commercial capabilities needed to scale large, complex customer programs across design, engineering, and manufacturing. The role will own cross-company programs with responsibility for strategic business development, operational alignment of multi-site and/or multi-team capabilities and customer and financial outcomes.
This is not simply program management in the classic sense of tracking, coordination and communication. This is a role for a leader with a track record of consistently earning customer trust and scaling revenue while building a sustainable model for operational excellence and collaboration. This role reports to the Chief Executive Officer of Re:Build Manufacturing.
Key Responsibilities
Cross-Company Coordination:
- Coordinate program work across multiple companies and teams, to include design, engineering and manufacturing
- Find and fix organizational friction that slows down program execution
- Build the operating model—processes, tools, governance—that enables consistently excellent program delivery across the company
- Work with functional leaders (engineering, operations, supply chain, finance) to staff programs effectively and align priorities
- Identify and develop strategic partnerships that strengthen Re:Build's ability to sell and deliver complex programs
- Improve our mechanisms to eliminate the need for cross-company coordination
Business Ownership:
- Performance of major cross-company programs from business development through delivery and support, with P&L accountability
- Serve as the primary executive responsible to customers for scope, cost, and quality
- Drive program financial performance including revenue, margin and risk mitigation
- Own the growth and health of the program’s portfolio—workforce planning, capability development, and long-term customer strategy
- Make investment decisions on tooling, systems, and capabilities needed to win and execute programs
- Launch new program delivery capabilities that let the company pursue previously unavailable opportunities
Team Building:
- Lead, develop, and grow a team of single-threaded leaders who own outcomes of important, highly technical, complex customer programs. This is not traditional tracking and reporting program management.
- Put in place program standards, metrics, and regular reviews that create visibility and accountability
- Build partnerships and credibility with engineering, operations and sales leaders across the organization
Customer & Stakeholder Leadership:
- Act as the senior customer-facing leader for major programs, building trusted relationships at the executive level through delivery excellence
- Communicate program status, risks, and opportunities internally and with customers—managing expectations and building confidence
- Represent the company in key customer meetings, reviews, and negotiations
Executive Leadership Contribution:
- Serve as an active member of Re:Build’s senior leadership
- Give executive leadership clear, accurate visibility into the program portfolio—risks, opportunities, and resource needs
- Build capability across Re:Build’s leaders to understand, pursue and win increasingly complex, high-value programs
Qualifications
Required Experience and Education:
- 10+ years of general management within engineering, design, manufacturing, or similar industries
- Master's level degree in management, and substantial technical experience as either an engineer, technician, or through an undergraduate engineering degree
- General management experience running a business or P&L
- Track record of managing complex strategic partnerships or integrations that required cross company coordination
- Hands-on experience managing complex, multi-site engineering and manufacturing programs
- Experience building and improving program management systems, tools, and processes that scale
- Technical credibility to engage meaningfully with engineering teams and make trade-off decisions involving technical risk, schedule, and cost
- Strong financial skills: comfortable owning program budgets, managing revenue and driving margin performance
- Executive presence and ability to represent the company credibly with senior customer stakeholders
- Significant manufacturing experience, preferably with 5+ years engaged in the domestic manufacture of technical industrial products at scale
- Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., medical, nuclear, defense, space)
- Experience working in and leading lean environments (Toyota Production System, Danaher Business System, or similar)
- Demonstrated ability to drive speed that is faster than the pre-existing clock speed of the organizations in which they’ve worked
Additional Attributes:
- High integrity leader who builds trust quickly with customers, peers, and direct reports
- Resilient, decisive, and willing to make difficult calls with incomplete information
- Collaborative by default, persistent when needed—knows when to partner and when to push
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively
Location
- Re:Build's Boston area headquarters office, one of Re:Build’s more substantial operations in Denver, Charlotte, Rochester, Pittsburgh or Cleveland.
The base salary range for this position is $261,217 – $435,412 per year. This range represents the Company’s good faith estimate of the base compensation for this role at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, qualifications, internal equity, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for annual incentive compensation and/or long-term incentives, subject to Company plans. The Company offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement, paid time off, and other benefits.