Chief Operating Officer

On the heels of achieving 3X growth
, Virginia Transformer is hiring to do it again! We’re strategically building our team for the next 3X growth cycle — a phase that is both intense and incredibly rewarding
. We’re highly selective about who joins us, because this journey isn’t for everyone.

If you have the drive, grit, and expertise to perform at a high level — and you want to grow your career 3X alongside the Company’s growth — we’d love to talk.

Virginia Transformer is the largest U.S.

-owned producer of power transformers in North America, with over 5,400 employees. Founded on a legacy of engineering excellence, we deliver premium quality transformers in the shortest lead times.

The Chief Operating Officer (COO) owns the enterprise operational execution platform of the business. This role ensures manufacturing operations, facilities, manufacturing engineering, equipment, test capability, and physical infrastructure operate reliably, safely, and at scale in support of a complex, made-to-order fast-growing manufacturing environment. It also builds, maintains, and scales the operating system that enables consistent output, quality, and delivery across multiple plants.

• Establish consistent operational standards, policies, and controls across plants
• Implement scalable operating models that support growth without chaos
• Ensure achievement of production volume, cost, quality, and delivery targets
• Optimize capacity utilization and plant productivity
• Lead S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) and demand fulfillment
• Ensure operational readiness for new products, customers, and capacity expansions
• Provide overall leadership for multiple manufacturing plants across locations
• Lead and mentor Plant Heads, Operations Directors, and Engineering Leaders
• Build leadership pipeline and succession planning
• Drive performance culture, workforce productivity, and engagement
• Ensure standardization of processes, systems, and KPIs across plants
• Drive best‑practice sharing and benchmarking between plants
• Oversee facility planning, expansion, modernization, and consolidation initiatives

• Lead enterprise maintenance strategy for all production, test, and support equipment
• Drive reliability engineering, preventive maintenance, and uptime optimization
• Establish asset lifecycle management standards across plants
• Reduce unplanned downtime and extend asset life through disciplined execution

• Standardize processes, tooling, layouts, and work methods for efficiency and repeatability
• Drive process capability, throughput improvement, and waste reduction
• Ensure compliance with quality systems (ISO, customer standards, regulatory norms)
• Drive zero‑defect culture and continuous quality improvement
• Lead major audits and customer escalations
• Ensure alignment between commercial demand, engineering requirements, and equipment capacity

• Oversee procurement, logistics, warehousing, and inventory management
• Develop strategic supplier partnerships
• Reduce working capital and improve inventory turns

• Establish and enforce uniform HSE standards across plants
• Drive zero‑accident and environmental compliance culture
• Ensure adherence to all statutory requirements
• Ensure plants and support facilities are safe, compliant, and optimized for production flow

• Serve as a core member of the Executive Leadership Team
• Partner closely with the CEO, CCO, CHRO, SVP Supply Chain, CTO, and CFO
• Translate growth strategy into executable operational infrastructure
• Act as a steward of long‑term operational health, not short‑term fixes

• Manufacturing processes and schedule attainment
• Buildings & facilities
• Maintenance & reliability
• Manufacturing engineering
• Equipment control, maintenance & capital assets
• Test equipment & technical execution in plants

• Sales & commercial strategy
• HR & people operations

• Test capability determines credibility
• Suppo…