Vice President Operations

Company Overview:

IRISS is the global leader in industrial safety and condition-based monitoring technologies, trusted by power generation, data center, and critical infrastructure teams worldwide. We design and manufacture in our facility in Bradenton Florida (made in the USA) innovative solutions that make maintenance safer, smarter, and more connected — helping organizations prevent failure, reduce risk, and protect their people.

IRISS has its headquarters in the U.S. with operations across LATAM, EMEA, APAC, and India. At our core is a simple idea with profound impact: We Humanize Safety. That means creating products and technologies that are not only advanced, but intuitive, empowering, and designed with people in mind.

We’re shaping the future of how industries work — and how workers stay safe

Please review our website and YouTube to learn more about our products and who we are:

Electrical Maintenance Safety Solutions | IRISS Inc

https://iriss.com/

IRISS - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/@Irissemsd

About the Job:

This senior leadership role will develop and execute IRISS’s global operational strategy, with responsibility across manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, inventory, logistics, quality, facilities, and international operations. The VP of Operations will build the people, processes, systems, infrastructure, and capacity needed to support rapid and sustainable growth.

Key Responsibilities:

· Develop and execute a scalable global operations strategy.

· Lead manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, inventory, logistics, quality, and facilities.

· Expand manufacturing capacity, throughput, productivity, quality, and on-time delivery.

· Strengthen global sourcing and supply chain resilience.

· Provide strategic oversight of domestic and international operations.

· Drive Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement.

· Establish meaningful KPIs and operating disciplines to improve performance.

· Build, develop, and lead a high-performing global operations team.

· Partner with executive leadership on growth, expansion, capital investments, and strategic initiatives.

· Maintain the speed and flexibility of an entrepreneurial organization while implementing scalable processes.

· Develop and manage operating budgets, capital expenditure plans, headcount requirements, and operational forecasts.

· Partner with Finance to establish appropriate cost controls, productivity objectives, working capital targets, and investment priorities.

· Develop business cases and ROI analyses for significant operational and capital investments.

· Identify opportunities to improve gross margin and profitability through productivity, sourcing, inventory, manufacturing, logistics, and process improvements.

· Ensure operational investments are appropriately prioritized to support growth while maintaining financial discipline.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Business Administration, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.

· 15+ years of progressive operations/manufacturing leadership experience with significant senior-level responsibility.

· Proven success scaling manufacturing operations in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

· Significant domestic and international operations experience.

· Strong expertise in manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, inventory, logistics, quality, and operational finance.

· Demonstrated Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement experience.

· Strong financial, analytical, and KPI-driven leadership capabilities.

· Experience with ERP/MRP systems; Salesforce, Rootstock, and Microsoft applications beneficial.

· Ability to travel domestically and internationally.

What We’re Looking For:

A hands-on, strategic, metrics-driven leader with a scalability mindset, bias for action, global perspective, manufacturing expertise, financial acumen, and proven ability to build strong teams. The right leader will help IRISS scale without sacrificing quality, customer service, accountability, or our entrepreneurial culture.

Why IRISS? Join a growing global technology manufacturer where you will have the opportunity to shape and scale the company’s manufacturing and operational strategy while making a significant executive leadership impact.