Vice President Operations

This is a great opportunity for someone with your experience and background to play a critical role in our client company's success. We are an executive search practice involved in the recruitment of top leadership talent in key leadership roles for our clients. The role is a challenging and multifaceted leadership role within an organization that is well poised for further growth. Crestline Coach Ltd. is an industry leader and growing Canadian organization, a trusted, recognizable brand with known excellence related to speciality vehicles with high quality products sold all over the world and known for their ability to provide high quality ambulances with no comprises on the road to safety. Due to succession planning, our client is seeking a **Vice President, Operations** which is a significant operational executive role that is responsible for providing leadership and direction of the Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Lean & Quality teams while ensuring alignment of functional priorities with the strategic and financial objectives of the company. This is a significant leadership opportunity with the ability to make a positive leadership contribution to an innovative organization in a time of growth and expansion. The organization is in an enviable position being within healthcare and related sectors with constant/consistent product demand that also saves lives. This role will be based in Saskatoon, SK (or surrounding area). Our client is open to providing relocation assistance. **COMPANY BACKGROUND** Part of the Demers-Braun-Crestline-Medix family of companies, Crestline is a global leader in ambulance and specialty vehicle manufacturing and a Canadian distributor of small to mid-sized commercial buses. Like the Demers, Braun, and Medix brands, Crestline is driven by world class safety and innovation, and built to stand up to the most demanding performance and durability standards. Crestline exceeds and inspires today's industry standards. The organization espouses strong values oriented to being customer centric with firm commitment to excellence. The organizations' mission is to make life better, one relationship and one vehicle at a time. They are committed to being a partner of choice, dedicated to safety and innovation, delivering an exceptional customer experience through empowered employees. The Demers, Braun and Crestline ambulance brands were combined in 2018 creating the second largest North American ambulance design and manufacturing company platform and is backed by private equity partners Clearspring Capital and Caisse de Depot. The Medix Brand was added to portfolio in 2021. Committed to safety and driven by innovation the group provides a comprehensive line of Type I, II and III ambulances designed to meet the needs of the North American EMS marketplace and is a leading distributor of commercial buses to the Canadian municipal and retail market segments. With design and manufacturing operations in Quebec and Saskatchewan, Canada, and in Van Wert Ohio and Elkart Indiana, the group focuses on delivering a "partner of choice? customer experience to support the advancement of EMS in North America. **Overview of Role** Reporting to the President, Canada, the Vice President, Operations will be responsible for driving operational execution throughout the organization in line with the business strategy. This role will be responsible for all aspects of operations, including manufacturing, supply chain, inventory management, planning & scheduling, manufacturing engineering, quality control and environmental health & safety. Will be a member of the Site Leadership Team responsible for the Saskatoon site performance. The role will lead direct reports in the areas of Supply Chain & Logistics, Quality, Health & Safety, Manufacturing, Planning and Project Management, overseeing multiple product lines and functions with 200+ employees. This role will offer transformational leadership to pursue excellence and adapt to a changing market, a growing customer base, an aggressive labour market and to help grow the employees and leaders. This is within a high paced enviable business environment that has products/vehicles that are oriented to saving lives. **SCOPE** **Key Leadership Actions** - Effective people leadership and development through an eye for attraction and retention, as well as ability to achieve employee engagement across all levels of the operation. - This position requires both strategic and tactical delivery for establishing and executing on operational plans which a) reduce product labour and material costs, (b) optimize working capital invested in inventory and work in-process, (c) achieve product quality objectives, and (d) support customer satisfaction and profitable business growth through cost effective management of capacity and lead times. **Organizational Structure, Capabilities and Capacity** - Establish and maintain high performance and cost-effective manufacturing, supply chain