Director, Material Movement & Production Supply

Costa Mesa · Tustin, CA (OC-55) · USD 220,000-292,000 · 6+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 8, 2026

At a glance

The Director, Material Movement & Production Supply will lead warehouse and production supply operations across headquarters and Orange County facilities. This role involves managing high-volume fulfillment, kitting, and line-side delivery while overseeing the launch of a new campus in Long Beach. The position requires hands-on leadership of managers, supervisors, and hundreds of hourly associates to ensure zero production line stoppages.

Run daily operations including receiving, put away, storage, picking, kitting, line side delivery, and outbound shipping.
Maintain zero line stoppages caused by material and meet service levels for dock to stock and kit on time.
Build and utilize data-driven views of labor, productivity, backlog, and service levels to staff shifts.
Lead from the floor through daily Gemba walks, tier meetings, and kaizen events.
Manage safety, operating budgets for labor and equipment, and cost per unit handled.
Ensure transaction discipline and location control to maintain inventory accuracy.
Maintain segregation, serialization, and traceability for government furnished property and export controlled material.
Hire, train, and develop hourly associates and supervisors.
Launch the Long Beach campus, including hiring leaders and establishing standard work.
Act as the first user for new systems and layouts, testing changes on the floor before implementation.

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, operations, industrial engineering, business or a related field, OR 15+ years of equivalent operations experience.
12+ years of experience in fulfillment, distribution, 3PL or warehouse operations, including leadership of a high volume site.
6+ years leading managers or supervisors across multiple shifts or sites, with 200+ hourly associates and full ownership of safety, labor and productivity results.
Experience managing labor to engineered or measured productivity standards by process.
Experience running warehouse operations on a warehouse management system.
Must be able to work extended hours and/or weekends as needed.
Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.
Must be onsite in Costa Mesa, CA.
U.S. Person status is required for access to export controlled material and data.

Launched a new fulfillment, distribution or production supply site from pre opening through steady rate.
Builds own analysis in SQL, Python or a BI tool.
Experience supplying a manufacturing production line through kitting, kanban and line side replenishment.
Aerospace, defense or regulated manufacturing experience, including custody of government furnished property.
Led the operations side of a warehouse management system implementation or migration.
Lean or Six Sigma certification, or a documented record of kaizen results.
Supervisors you hired and developed were later promoted.
Master's degree in supply chain, engineering or business.