Production Director

Apex Sign Group seeks a manufacturing and operations leader to oversee pre-production and turn customer requirements into production-ready work. Reporting to the EVP of Operations, this role aligns design, engineering, estimating, costing, planning, and release readiness with Project Management and Manufacturing. The Director sets priorities, governance, and accountability to improve margin, quality, delivery, and scalable growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead accountable teams across design, engineering, and production planning.

• Translate growth, margin, customer, and manufacturing priorities into a clear operating agenda.

• Ensure projects enter manufacturing with complete specifications, materials, routings, and execution requirements.

• Build credible schedules and align capacity, suppliers, and materials to delivery commitments.

• Partner with Manufacturing to improve schedule integrity, throughput, and asset use.

• Direct product design, engineering documentation, bills of materials, and routings for manufacturability, quality, compliance, and cost.

• Lead value engineering, estimating, and job costing to improve cost transparency, margin predictability, and lifecycle value.

• Standardize the operating model from project intake through production release, including stage-gate governance.

• Use ERP, MRP, PLM, and costing systems to improve data, workflows, and decisions.

• Align Project Management, Design, Estimating, Purchasing, Production, Sales, and Finance; resolving recurring issues and sustaining process changes.

• Coach and develop the team, close capability gaps, and reinforce ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.