Manufacturing Director

with deep manufacturing expertise. The Manufacturing Director will work alongside client stakeholders and delivery teams to help drive the transformation, identify risks, challenge assumptions, facilitate critical decisions, and ensure technology and operational changes support business objectives. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable advising executives, engaging plant leadership, and actively helping manage complex transformation programs.

As a Director at Perficient, you will play a crucial role on the leadership team of our digital consultancy practice. You will collaborate with the sales team, industry partners, and subject matter experts to deliver and expand digital solutions that transform how our clients connect with their customers and grow their business. This will involve working with cross-functional teams to drive results and financial performance. Additionally, you will foster an engaging colleague culture that inspires strong team and individual performance, in line with Perficient's People Promise.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to client executives, plant leadership, and transformation teams.
• Partner with client program leadership to help manage and advance manufacturing transformation initiatives.
• Identify operational, organizational, and technology risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate workshops, planning sessions, and decision-making forums.
• Validate business requirements and ensure solutions align with manufacturing objectives and operational realities.
• Provide expertise in manufacturing operations, automation, Industry 4.0, smart factory, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Drive stakeholder alignment across business, operations, engineering, and technology teams.
• Support development of roadmaps, business cases, and transformation strategies.
• Contribute manufacturing thought leadership to client engagements, solution development, and account growth initiatives.
• Provide hands-on program management support for site transformation initiatives, driving planning, stakeholder alignment, issue resolution, risk management, and execution readiness across business, operations, engineering, and technology teams.

Additional responsibilities may include: •

Develop and mentor team of consultants, project managers and architects. Challenge, champion and celebrate our People. Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment. Manage the technical, business and personnel aspects of consulting engagements. Cultivate highly functioning teams comprised of Perficient and client resources, the ability to effectively manage the engagement while recognizing and leveraging the expertise of the different resources and the importance of their contributions is critical.

• 15+ years of manufacturing leadership experience in complex industrial environments.
• Proven experience leading or supporting large-scale manufacturing, operational excellence, or digital transformation programs.
• Deep understanding of production operations, quality, maintenance, supply chain, and plant management.
• Experience with automation, smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0, digital thread, connected factory, or related initiatives.
• Strong program leadership, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to identify risks, challenge assumptions, and guide strategic decision-making.
• Experience in heavy equipment, industrial manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, or similar industries preferred.

Our ideal candidate would be a seasoned manufacturing leader who can roll up their sleeves and help drive transformation execution while providing the strategic perspective needed to anticipate risks, shape solutions, and guide clients through complex operational change. This individual will serve as both a trusted advisor and an active partner in delivering successful manufacturing transformation outcomes.