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Track

Executive

Family rungs priced

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11-0000

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Coordinates

3 / 4 spaces

pay@2 · 2026-07

What this role is

Top executive accountable for the enterprise's entire manufacturing operation and production strategy. At the Vice President (E3) level, the role owns a division, market and competitive strategy, and drives division-wide. Leads a division's leadership team.

What this level does

Lead a large manufacturing division or regional operations business through senior executives (VPs), carrying enterprise-level operational risk and critical strategic impact
Shape corporate manufacturing strategy for the division — network footprint, technology adoption (smart-factory/automation), and long-range capacity and cost roadmap
Own division-wide operational and financial performance, driving continuous improvement across a portfolio of plants against enterprise QCDS standards
Represent the organization's manufacturing capability externally to major customers, industry bodies and partners, and participate in enterprise strategy development
Balance enterprise-level trade-offs — capital deployment, restructuring, resiliency and safety — where outcomes affect overall company performance and reputation

Knowledge applied: Shapes corporate manufacturing strategy for a large division or regional business; applies enterprise-impact judgment on footprint, technology and long-range capacity.
Complexity & problem solving: Enterprise-level operational risk and critical strategic impact; balances capital, restructuring, resiliency and safety across a portfolio of plants.
Collaboration & interaction: External representation to major customers and industry bodies and participation in enterprise strategy; leads major business areas through senior executives.
Typical experience: 15–20+ years, including proven enterprise-impact operations leadership.

Skills at this level

Manufacturing process & Lean knowledge: — Applies a strong understanding of manufacturing processes, lean manufacturing principles and operational procedures to keep plant day-to-day operations running smoothly and improving against QCDS benchmarks.
Plant P&L and operational strategy: — Develops and executes operational strategy while managing the plant or multi-site P&L — owning production, quality, safety, maintenance and logistics performance as an integrated business.
Strategy cascade through management layers: — Sets the overall manufacturing plant/division strategy and ensures it is translated and cascaded through management layers down to the shop floor so targets are executed consistently.
Manufacturing software proficiency: — Uses manufacturing and industry-specific systems (ERP/production-scheduling, MES, MOM) to plan, schedule and control production and monitor plant performance against targets.
Operational data & predictive-maintenance analytics: — Interprets data from smart factories and oversees AI-powered predictive maintenance and robotic process automation to drive operational decisions and continuous improvement.
Health & safety regulation and compliance: — Applies health and safety regulations and industry compliance standards across manufacturing operations, safeguarding the plant's safety performance and regulatory standing.
Executive stakeholder communication: — Articulates complex operational concepts to stakeholders at every level, from front-line employees and Directors to the CEO and board members.
Continuous business improvement: — Drives operations toward defined quality, cost, delivery and safety targets by improving against benchmarks and standards across the plant or portfolio of plants.

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Pay across the ladder

No priced rungs for this family's ladder yet.

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

SOC 11-0000 · national

Employment growth 2019–2024, BLS OEWSobserved

+26.2%Industrial Production Managers · United States

185,790 → 234,380 jobs

17,100 openings / year, split into:

replacement / exits 16,640

Growth — new jobs (3%)Exits — backfill (97%)

3% of hiring here is genuine expansion; the rest backfills people who move on.

Projected growth 2024–34 expanding: +1.9%
Growth share of hiring: 3%
Exit / retention pressure high: 97%
Openings / year: 17,100

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 E3 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$587k

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA$526k

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$487k

Boulder, CO$480k

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$480k

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$460k

Lexington Park, MD$448k

Trenton-Princeton, NJ$445k

Pay only — metro-level demand isn't in public data (it needs job postings). National median $352k; 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 E3 (E3 — Vice President) from the levels around it — this level only. Every word is real canon for this profile.

Scope: A division
Autonomy: Accountable for division strategy and P&L
Complexity: Market and competitive strategy
Impact: Division-wide
Decision rights: Owns division strategy, budget, and org
Leadership: Leads a division's leadership team

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

Promotion

The next rung from E3 is E4.

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
Chief Accounting Officer	jfo_jfm_accounting-controllership-accounting-management::E3	—	confident0.00
Chief Cost Accounting Officer	jfo_jfm_accounting-cost-accounting::E3	—	confident0.00
Chief Accounting Officer	jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting-management::E3	—	confident0.00
Chief Accounting Officer	jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting::E3	—	confident0.00

Capability cluster

O*NET 11-3051

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

E3

jfo_jfm_manufacturing-operations-manufacturing-operations-general::E3

Chief Manufacturing Officer

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: E
Universal level: 3 / 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-controllership-accounting-management::E3 · E3confident0.00

jfo_jfm_accounting-cost-accounting::E3 · E3confident0.00

jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting-management::E3 · E3confident0.00

jfo_jfm_accounting-general-accounting::E3 · E3confident0.00

jfo_jfm_administrative-corporate-services-administrative-services-ma::E3 · E3confident0.00

jfo_jfm_administrative-corporate-services-administrative-support::E3 · E3confident0.00

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 11-3051	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)