Vice President, Programs
About Re:Build
At Re:Build, our mission is to ensure the next generation of important products are made, at scale, in America. We are laying the foundation for a better future for our customers, employees, and communities by revitalizing America's manufacturing base and creating meaningful jobs across the country, including in historically deindustrialized regions.
We operate an advanced, end-to-end manufacturing platform that partners with industrial companies and innovators to take products from first concept to full-scale production in critical verticals including aerospace and defense, electrification, medical, energy and environment, and robotics and automation.
We hire builders. If you need a fully-scoped plan before you'll move, this isn't the role. We need leaders who turn ambiguity into action, stay close to the work, and build the systems that make scale possible — fast.
The way we operate is as important as the work we do. It's guided by The Re:Build Way, 16 principles that shape how we collaborate with each other, partner with our customers and vendors, and contribute to the communities where we operate. (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.
