Purpose of the Role: Essential in ensuring the business operates with a strong focus on Safety, Quality, and Production. The Vice President of Operations will play a key part in supporting City Leaders with the planning, leadership, and oversight of daily operations. The position is responsible for assisting Project Managers, Field Managers, and Foremen in meeting client needs across the various city markets where Cherry Coatings operates.
CHERRY CORE VALUES: All tasks carried out in accordance with these CORE VALUES
+ Maintaining a safety-first culture + Help in recruiting and hiring field personnel. + Training and mentorship of all paint related Project Managers, FMs & Foremen + Work with the PMs and City Leaders to help move men and allocate proper manpower on projects + Meet with general contractors to ensure Cherry is delivering but also protecting sequence and solving problems. + Attend project meetings for the following reasons:
- Schedule concerns or sequence issues
- Change order collection
- Quality issues
- Risk management
- Safety issues+ Hold accountable change order logs and extra work is accounted for on projects. + Review job cost sheets to ensure profitability and control costs + Walk jobs with PM and FM and use this as a time to train/grow your team. + Review scheduling of all field staff to ensure we are properly staffed with the right people in the right places. + Find and onboard subs
- Know and evaluate their abilities, set pay rates, hold accountable
+ Constantly evaluate and set the standard for safety in your market with employees and subs. + Understand unique aspects of each job type and how Cherry executes it + Execute and hold teams accountable for Safety, Quality, and Production + Review operational problems or inefficiencies and make corrective actions, find lean ways to execute. + Conduct Field Manager & Foremen meetings on a routine basis to identify and resolve concerns and opportunities for improvement using the EOS System. + Conduct frequent job walks to ensure Safety/ Quality/ Production Standards are being met. + Work with your team to implement the vision and execution of the VTO + Assists the City Leaders in developing new products, services, and subsidiaries. + Innovative approach to projects, problems, and future products. + Attend preconstruction meetings to ensure seamless project starts with field leadership. + Help in the same way in other markets as they get developed
+ Use your expertise to collaborate on project approach + Help assist in product selection/education for difficult projects + Provide advice on how to approach situations that arise on jobsites + Look over schedules for changes for impacts to our bottom line. + Assist in forecasting labor costs for projects to ensure profitability
+ Attend meetings to offer expertise in our field + Politic with GC’s and establish Cherry as the right choice
+ 10% Leadership of the market + Constantly evaluate training needs and provide a solution for training. + Attend L10 integrator meetings + Lead L10 operations meetings + Attend L10 PM meetings as needed
+ Constantly evaluate training needs and provide a solution for training. + Attend L10 integrator meetings + Lead L10 operations meetings + Attend L10 PM meetings as needed
- Provide leadership at a high level to get us back on track.
- Put systems in place and set milestones to get us back on track.
- Meet with the general contractors to establish what Cherry needs to be successful.- Follow-up weekly or daily, as you see fit to secure the win.