Industrial & Manufacturing Executive Roles
More than 5,000 executive sources scanned daily — every senior role across discrete and process manufacturers, industrial equipment OEMs, and supply-chain platforms.
Tier breakdown
7
Founder27
C-Suite223
VP13
Sr Director93
DirectorWhat this category covers
The Industrial & Manufacturing industry covers the broad industrial economy: discrete manufacturers (machinery, electronics, vehicles, durable goods), process manufacturers (chemicals, food, pulp and paper), industrial equipment OEMs, factory automation suppliers, and large supply-chain leaders.
Industrial is heavily onsite. Executive remote policy in this industry skews ~65% onsite, 25% hybrid, 10% remote. Plant General Managers, VP Manufacturing, and CSCO seats are anchored to specific manufacturing footprints. The classifier surfaces remote-friendly corporate seats (often CFO, CTO, CHRO) explicitly so candidates can filter accurately.
Functions over-represented in Industrial & Manufacturing: COO/Operations (multi-plant ownership), Supply Chain (CSCO, VP Procurement, Director Supply Chain), and CTO/Engineering (industrial engineering, automation, IIoT). Director-tier in this industry frequently runs a single plant or major sub-function — real exec scope despite the title prefix.
Sample Jobs (10 of 363)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Executive Plant Leader, Onshore Wind GE Vernova Drive safe, high-quality, and efficient operations in a large blade manufacturing factory within the Onshore Wind business. Focus on safety, quality, delivery, and cost, ensuring world-class manufacturing standards. VP | Grand Forks, ND, US Onsite |
| Supply Chain Director - Americas ... global automotive manufacturer Lead and execute supply chain strategies across the Americas region to support business goals and operational performance. Oversee planning activities, drive inventory optimization, and direct logistics operations. Director | Mexico Unknown |
| Head of Manufacturing Engineering Genesis Lead the manufacturing process for general-purpose robots, from engineering builds to production. Design production processes, manage capacity planning, and ensure quality control. VP | Bay Area, CA Onsite |
| CEO - 国内制造业精密加工公司 ... 国内制造业精密加工公司 The CEO will be responsible for strategic development, operational efficiency, and leadership in a domestic precision manufacturing company. C-Suite | Chongqing, China Onsite |
| VP of Customer Success AssetWatch The Vice President of Customer Success is responsible for maximizing long-term customer value through adoption, retention, expansion, and operational excellence. The role involves building a world-class Customer Success organization and integrating AI capabilities. VP | Remote Remote |
| Head of Finance (f/m/d) QuantumDiamonds GmbH As Head of Finance, you will own finance end-to-end, laying the financial foundation for a scaling deep-tech hardware company. Responsibilities include financial reporting, controlling, treasury, public funding, and supporting global equipment deliveries. VP | Munich, Germany Onsite |
| Head HR ... empresa multinacional lider Coordinate HR activities, support executive team, manage HR initiatives, and lead change management. VP | Uruguay Unknown |
| Head of Marketing Formic Lead and optimize Formic's marketing strategy, demand generation, and GTM engineering to create qualified pipelines and measurable business results. VP | Remote Remote |
| Head of Quality Tutor Intelligence Lead quality function, manage supplier quality, ensure product safety certifications, and grow the quality team. VP | Watertown, MA Onsite |
| Chief Technology Officer Caldwell The Chief Technology Officer will define and own a multi-year technology roadmap, oversee technology stack, and connect corporate technology strategy to the operating model. The role involves scaling engineering capability and creating systems for efficiency and competitive advantage. C-Suite | Greater Toronto Area, ON, CA Unknown |
How classification gets to this category
Industrial & Manufacturing industry classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other industry, with industrial-specific signals at the company-tagging stage:
- Company industry tagging. The company is identified via NAICS codes (31–33 for manufacturing, 423–424 for industrial wholesalers), product-category signals, and a curated allowlist of OEMs and large industrial holding companies.
- Discrete vs. process tagging. The classifier separates discrete manufacturers (machinery, electronics, vehicles) from process manufacturers (chemicals, food, materials) — different exec-team composition and different remote-policy distributions. Sub-tags surface as filter facets.
- JD signals for boundary cases. GPT reads the job description for industrial-specific signals (plant references, lean/six-sigma vocabulary, BOM and SKU-count language, ERP system references like SAP or Oracle Manufacturing) when the company allowlist is ambiguous. Editorial review catches diversified industrials with non-manufacturing divisions. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
The classifier explicitly excludes from Industrial & Manufacturing: pure consumer-goods brands without owned manufacturing (these are Consumer Goods), industrial-software-only companies (Technology), and aerospace primes classified separately under Aerospace.
How matching works for your search
Matching on Industrial & Manufacturing is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select Industrial + Supply Chain and your inbox shows industrial CSCO, VP Supply Chain, and Director Supply Chain seats only — not every Industrial role regardless of function, and not every Supply Chain role across the platform. You get the intersection.
Tier filtering works on top. If you want only Director-tier and above Industrial roles — capturing single-plant Plant GMs and Director Engineering seats — the seniority-tier setting does that cleanly. Or restrict to CXO-tier only for pure C-suite Industrial seats. Each filter layer multiplies precision without requiring you to manually scan for noise.
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