Director Resume Example
A director resume that puts the multi-site manufacturing scope first, then the scrap rate cut and the reporting plant managers now rely on.
Rowan Whitfield
Director of Operations · Multi-Site Manufacturing
Nashville, TN
(615) 555-0121
r.whitfield@email.com
linkedin.com/in/rowanwhitfield
Profile
Operations director with 13 years running multi-site manufacturing teams of up to 140 people and an $18M budget. Cut scrap rate 22% plant-wide and built the reporting 3 plant managers now use.
Operations Experience
Director of Operations
2019 – Present
Ardent Holdings, Nashville, TN
- Own operations and an $18M budget across 3 manufacturing plants employing 140 people.
- Cut scrap rate 22% plant-wide by standardizing quality checks across all 3 sites.
- Report plant performance and capital plans to the executive team every month.
- Built the KPI reporting package now used by 3 plant managers to track OEE weekly.
- Hired and developed 4 plant managers, 2 of whom were promoted from within.
Plant Manager
2015 – 2019
Calder Group, Nashville, TN
- Ran daily operations for a 60-person plant producing $40M in annual output.
- Led a lean manufacturing rollout that cut changeover time from 90 to 35 minutes.
- Managed a $2.1M capital budget for equipment upgrades and facility improvements.
- Negotiated raw-material contracts saving the plant $310K a year.
Production Supervisor
2012 – 2015
Calder Group, Nashville, TN
- Supervised 25 production staff across 2 shifts, meeting output targets 96% of weeks.
- Ran root-cause investigations that cut line downtime by 15% over 2 years.
Core Strengths
Operations strategy
Budget ownership
Team leadership
Process improvement
Vendor negotiation
Performance management
Board reporting
Systems
SAPExcelPower BITableau
Certifications
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB)
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
OSHA 30-Hour General Industry
OSHA Outreach Training Program
Education
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
2012
Tennessee Technological University
The person, employers and dates are invented; the duties, tools and credentials are the ones this job really asks for.
20terms employers filter on
- Strategy
- Budget ownership
- Team leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Forecasting
- Vendor negotiation
- Process design
- Hiring
- Performance management
- Board reporting
- P&L
- Budget
- Operations
- Process Improvement
- KPI
- Change Management
- Cross-Functional
- Roadmap
- Risk
- Governance
What holds up
- 01 / 05Scope in the first line.Team size, budget, region — the level check happens immediately.
- 02 / 05Outcomes over duties.What changed under you, with numbers and periods.
- 03 / 05People built.Hires, promotions, retention — the durable record.
- 04 / 05Two pages acceptable.Expected, even; padding is not.
- 05 / 05Board and stakeholder work named.The altitude of your communication matters.
What does not
- 01 / 05Buzzword leadership."Visionary change agent" reads as inverse seniority.
- 02 / 05Taking whole-company results.Your span, honestly bounded, reads stronger.
- 03 / 05Detailed early-career history.Compress to a line each after fifteen years.
- 04 / 05Confidential figures.Percentages carry the point.
- 05 / 05Hiding a short tenure.The story on paper beats the one imagined.
FAQ
Questions about this director resume example
Short answers to what people ask before they send this resume.
Use this exampleIs two pages acceptable?
Yes, and at this level often expected. What is not acceptable is a second page of duties rather than outcomes.
How far back should the history go?
Roughly fifteen years in detail; older roles compress to a line each. The early history establishes trajectory, not capability.
Should I include a summary?
Yes. At this level a reader wants scope — team size, budget, region — in the first three lines, before deciding whether to keep reading.