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Track

Management

Family rungs priced

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51-0000

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Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Directs upstream processing manufacturing operations across multiple production units or shifts, setting operational strategy and ensuring output, quality, and compliance targets are met. At the Senior Director (M5) level, the role owns multiple functions or a large department, org-level trade-offs and investment, and drives multi-function results. Leads directors and managers.

What this level does

Direct upstream production across the division/site through subordinate managers, with decisions impacting overall operations and product supply
Define production and process-control methods and standards for complex, site-wide upstream challenges
Apply data-driven decision-making using digital production monitoring tools to set operational strategy and capital investment priorities
Influence executives and major customers/regulators on capacity, compliance and continuity of upstream supply
Set the multi-year continuous-improvement and automation agenda for upstream operations, allocating resources across departments

Knowledge applied: Defines methods and standards for division/site upstream operations, leading through department managers.
Complexity & problem solving: Resolves complex org-wide issues; defines production-control and improvement methods with business-wide implications.
Collaboration & interaction: Influences executives and major customers/regulators on key supply and compliance issues.
Typical experience: 10–12+ years including second-level management and strategy work.

Skills at this level

Upstream Process Execution: — Executes cell-culture/fermentation batch records, work instructions and SOPs with a right-first-time discipline, monitoring each process step to keep runs within specification.
Production Scheduling & Workflow Control: — Plans and assigns daily upstream tasks and output goals against the production schedule, and maintains workflow by monitoring process steps and equipment availability.
Mechanical & Equipment Knowledge: — Applies knowledge of bioreactor and production equipment design, use, repair and maintenance to keep upstream lines running and to diagnose stoppages.
Lean / Continuous Improvement: — Uses lean manufacturing and Six Sigma tools to eliminate waste, reduce deviations and implement cost-reduction measures across the upstream operation.
Statistical Process Control: — Analyzes upstream process and yield data with SPC and quality-analysis software such as Minitab to detect drift and control batch quality.
Safety & Regulatory Adherence: — Practices and enforces safe work habits and equipment-operation protocols, maintaining compliance with standards such as OSHA on the production floor.
Manufacturing Systems Proficiency: — Uses ERP and manufacturing/inventory software (e.g., SAP) to record production, track consumables and order-process against the upstream schedule.
Team Leadership: — Coordinates cross-functional teams and skilled operators under tight production schedules with a results-driven mindset, training and directing shift staff.
Cross-Functional Coordination: — Collaborates with maintenance, quality control and supply chain to resolve equipment and batch issues and align capacity to the production plan.
Operations Budgeting: — Makes budgetary recommendations on capital expenditures and direct/indirect labor for the upstream area and manages variance against the operating plan.
Data-Driven Decision Making: — Applies digital production-monitoring tools and yield metrics to prioritize corrective action, set operational strategy and justify capital investment.

Model-authored from 18 retrieved sources, then adversarially reviewed by an independent judge panel and held to a minimum-evidence floor before publication. Distinct from corpus-extracted content, which is labelled as such.

Pay across the ladder

No priced rungs for this family's ladder yet.

Pay figures are modeled estimates from our market equation — level-differentiated, with honest-wide bands. They refresh as new leveling evidence lands; treat per-role dollars as directional.

Demand — is the field growing, or just turning over?

SOC 51-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+8.6%First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers · United States

631,100 → 685,140 jobs

67,700 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 66,862

Growth — new jobs (1%)Exits — backfill (99%)

1% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +1.2%
Growth share of hiring: 1%
Exit / retention pressure high: 99%
Openings / year: 67,700

Two quantities, kept apart: observed = employment growth differenced from two BLS OEWS vintages (what already happened); projected = BLS Employment Projections 2024–34, openings decomposed into growth + exits (growth derived from projected employment change). Neither is a pay figure.

Where this role sits — growth vs. pay

level M5 held

Demand axis is projected growth (not raw openings — that just measures churn). A curated, de-duplicated set of recognizable occupations held at this level; this role is highlighted.

Where it pays — by metro

OEWS metro median

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA$314k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$281k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$260k

Boulder, CO$257k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$257k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$246k

Lexington Park, MD$240k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$238k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $188k; the demand-cube initiative will add growth-by-metro.

What changes across the ladder

Level-distinction canon isn't available for the adjacent levels of this profile yet.

Level differentiators

What separates M5 (M5 — Senior Director) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: Multiple functions or a large department
Autonomy: Owns multi-year strategy for the area
Complexity: Org-level trade-offs and investment
Impact: Multi-function results
Decision rights: Owns investment and org design across functions
Leadership: Leads directors and managers

Full level-by-level matrix (side by side across the ladder) lives on the Ladder drill-down — not here.

Promotion

The next rung from M5 is M6.

Performance criteria for this profile render in the assessment kit →

People also watch

Nearest coordinate neighbors — same , same level. Each row's (confident / review / no match) comes from its — computed, not curated.

Profile	Key	Median	Δ structural
Director of Cost Accounting	jfo_jfm_accounting-cost-accounting::M5	—	confident0.00
Director, General Accounting	jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting-management::M5	—	confident0.00
Director, General Accounting	jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting::M5	—	confident0.00
Director of Administrative Services	jfo_jfm_administrative-corporate-services-administrative-services-ma::M5	—	confident0.00

Capability cluster

O*NET 51-1011

Core to this role. Click any element with an ⓘ for its O*NET definition. A job-specific capability model (SkillFrame) will sharpen this and add worked examples.

The Job Swatch

M5

jfo_jfm_manufacturing-operations-production-supervision-upstream-processing::M5

Director, Manufacturing Operations (Upstream Processing)

The swatch is JobFrame's core primitive: a hueset deterministically by the role's superfunction, the profileKey as its color code, the level ladder, and a content fingerprint. Two swatches that look alike are alike.

Because every role carries computable coordinates, similarity, leveling, and pricing become measurable instead of arguable— the whole point of "Pantone for jobs."

Structural

structural@1

Where it sits— position in the work taxonomy + level (weighted Gower, level > function > focus).

Track: M
Universal level: 5 / 8

Content

content@2

What it's about— a fingerprint over the role's tasks & capabilities.

Two roles can sit far apart structurally yet be close in content — that gap is itself a signal.

3-state matching

How any two swatches compare — a real distance in coordinate space, resolved to a calibrated verdict (never a fake "94% match").

jfo_jfm_accounting-cost-accounting::M5 · M5confident0.00

jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting-management::M5 · M5confident0.00

jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting::M5 · M5confident0.00

jfo_jfm_administrative-corporate-services-administrative-services-ma::M5 · M5confident0.00

jfo_jfm_administrative-corporate-services-administrative-support::M5 · M5confident0.00

jfo_jfm_administrative-corporate-services-service-delivery::M5 · M5confident0.00

Editions — frozen & versioned

structural@1live

Released 2026-06-17

content@2live

Released 2026-07-28

pay@2live

Released 2026-07-02

semantic@1live

Released 2026-07-02

Coordinates belong to a frozen, versioned edition — a coordinate computed today still means the same thing next quarter. Re-fitting issues a new edition, so comparisons are never silently redefined.

How to read this profile

Every number here is traceable — to a named source, a stated method, and an as-of date — and each value is labeled by how we know it: observed from data, computed by a model, projected forward, or governed canon. Nothing is a black box, and nothing is invented to fill a gap.

Where every number comes from

What	Source & method	Edition	State
Median pay + range	JobFrame pay equation (function base × family multiplier × level × focus differential)	pay@2	computed
Pay across the ladder	Same equation applied at each universal level	pay@2	computed
Demand — growth & openings	BLS Employment Projections; openings decomposed into growth + exits	EP 2024–34	projected
Pay by metro	BLS OEWS metropolitan medians	OEWS 2024	observed
Level distinctions	JobFrame universal-level canon (scope · autonomy · complexity · impact · decision rights · leadership)	canon	canon
Capability cluster	O*NET Knowledge / Skills / Abilities	O*NET 51-1011	computed
Coordinates	JobFrame coordinate system — structural (weighted Gower) + content fingerprint	structural@1 · content@2 · pay@2 · semantic@1	computed
Related roles	Nearest neighbors in the structural coordinate space	structural@1	computed

The principles behind the numbers

Ranges, not false precision

Pay is P10 · median · P90, never a single misleading number.

Three honest states, never a fake %

Role matches resolve to confident / review / no-match — a calibrated verdict, not a made-up percentage.

Provenance on every value

Each number carries whether it's observed, computed, projected, or canon — so you always know how much to lean on it.

Gaps shown as gaps

When a figure isn't available at the grain you need, we say so — we don't fabricate a number to fill the cell.

Frozen, versioned editions

Pay and coordinate editions are pinned, so a comparison you make today still means the same thing next quarter.

Privacy by min-N

Any aggregate over people is suppressed below a minimum count, so no individual is identifiable.

Freshness

As of2026-07-31Editioncanon-v2@2.1.0-completeSourcecanon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)