Senior Vice President, Global Operations

• Develop and execute a global operations strategy aligned with corporate objectives and the Company's long-term growth plan
• Establish enterprise-wide operational priorities and performance metrics
• Foster operational excellence, collaboration, innovation, safety, quality, and employee engagement
• Lead organizational change initiatives improving efficiency, scalability, and competitiveness
• Build and lead a multi-site leadership team through coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and talent development
• Provide executive leadership for global manufacturing operations
• Ensure safe, efficient, cost-effective production and customer delivery commitments
• Optimize manufacturing capacity, production scheduling, labour utilization, workflow efficiency, load balancing, and technology transfer
• Drive productivity, waste reduction, profitability, and continuous improvement
• Establish global operating standards, common KPIs, and shared best practices
• Ensure a consistent global quality management system and regulatory compliance
• Improve first-pass yield, reduce defects, and enhance customer satisfaction
• Lead corrective and preventive actions
• Lead global procurement, sourcing, inventory management, production planning, logistics, and supplier performance
• Develop resilient multi-region supply chain strategies and optimize inventory
• Strengthen supplier relationships and identify strategic sourcing opportunities
• Lead global trade, logistics, and customs strategy
• Own the global ERP business strategy and operational effectiveness
• Drive common processes, data standards, digital transformation, workflow automation, and decision-making improvements
• Manage global operational budgets and capital expenditure plans
• Monitor productivity, quality, inventory, cost, safety, delivery, and customer satisfaction KPIs
• Support capacity expansion, site strategy, capital investment, make-or-buy, and footprint decisions
• Lead operational risk management and business continuity planning
• Ensure readiness for government and defence customer contractual obligations
• Support cybersecurity and compliance initiatives
• Ensure compliance with export control, trade, and defence-industry regulations including ITAR, EAR, and Canada's Controlled Goods Program
• Foster cross-functional collaboration across departments and regions
• Partner with Engineering, Finance, Human Resources, Business Development, and Program Management
• Advise the Founder & CEO on operational strategy, growth investments, and enterprise risk

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field
• Minimum of 18 years of progressive manufacturing and operations leadership experience, including at least 8 years in a senior executive role
• Experience within defence, aerospace, precision manufacturing, or another highly regulated manufacturing environment
• Excellent command of English, both written and verbal
• Demonstrated success leading multi-site, multi-country manufacturing operations and cross-functional teams
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, capital planning, and operational cost management
• Experience supporting organizational growth, change management, and business transformation
• Executive leadership within growth-oriented, global manufacturing organizations
• Strategic and systems thinker
• Inspirational and collaborative leader
• Decisive with sound judgment
• Results-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills
• Customer-focused and quality-driven
• Resilient and adaptable in a dynamic, global manufacturing environment
• Frequent required travel across global operations in Canada, U.S., UK, and Poland, as well as partner and supplier locations

• Opportunities for professional growth
• Challenging work
• Opportunity to contribute to products that make a real-world difference
• Innovation, collaboration, and purpose-driven work