Corporate Functional Manager, Heat Treat in Spring Grove, Illinois at Scot Forge

At Scot Forge, we manufacture high-performance forged components for some of the world's most demanding industries. With more than 130 years of success, $600M+ in revenue, and 100% employee ownership, we offer more than a job, we offer the opportunity to make a lasting impact.

We're hiring a Corporate Functional Manager, Heat Treat to provide enterprise-wide leadership for heat treat operations across our manufacturing facilities. This highly visible role is responsible for developing heat treat strategy, driving operational excellence, standardizing best practices, and building organizational capability across the company.

You'll partner closely with Plant Managers, Metallurgy, Quality, Maintenance, Engineering, and Operations leaders to improve safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and capacity while ensuring our heat treat processes remain technically sound, scalable, and aligned with customer requirements.

This role supports operations in Spring Grove, IL, Franklin Park, IL, and Clinton, WI and may be based at any of these locations. Relocation assistance is available for qualified candidates.

This is a unique opportunity to influence manufacturing performance across an entire enterprise.

We're seeking a transformational leader who can elevate heat treat operations through standardized processes, disciplined execution, technical excellence, and talent development. Success in this role requires someone who can build alignment across multiple facilities, challenge the status quo, and lead meaningful operational change while maintaining strong credibility on the shop floor.

The ideal candidate has experience in heavy manufacturing, preferably within the forging, steel, metals, foundry, or other industrial manufacturing sectors, and understands the operational realities of large-scale manufacturing environments.

• Enterprise-wide heat treat strategy, standards, performance, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Safety, quality, delivery, productivity, capacity, and compliance across all heat treat operations
• Development of heat treat leadership, technical talent, succession plans, and training systems
• Capital planning, equipment reliability, technology investments, and process standardization

• Lead heat treat operations across multiple facilities, partnering with plant leadership to improve safety, quality, throughput, capacity, and overall performance
• Drive transformational change through standardized processes, operational excellence initiatives, and data-driven continuous improvement
• Develop leaders and technical talent through coaching, mentoring, training, and succession planning
• Collaborate with Metallurgy, Quality, Engineering, and Maintenance to solve complex manufacturing challenges and ensure customer and metallurgical requirements are met
• Lead capital improvement efforts involving furnace upgrades, automation, equipment modernization, and capacity expansion
• Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert for heat treat processes, metallurgy, and thermal processing technologies

• 10+ years of heat treat, metallurgy, thermal processing, or related manufacturing experience, including leadership of operations, technical teams, or multi-site initiatives
• Strong preference for experience in heavy manufacturing environments such as forging, steel, metals, foundry, aerospace, defense, or other industrial manufacturing operations
• Deep knowledge of heat treat processes, furnace operations, metallurgy, materials behavior, and process control
• Proven success leading transformational change, continuous improvement, and operational performance initiatives across multiple locations
• Strong business acumen with the ability to influence results, develop talent, and build credibility with plant leadership
• Bachelor's degree in Metallurgy, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience considered
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship and able to pass a pre-employment drug screening

• 100% employee-owned industry leader in forged and engineered metal products
• Opportunity to influence heat treat operations across three manufacturing facilities
• High-visibility leadership role with significant impact on operational performance and future growth
• Ability to drive transformational change in a critical manufacturing function
• Strong commitment to safety, technical excellence, and employee development
• Stable, growing organization with a long-term ownership mindset
• Relocation assistance available for qualified candidates

If you're a heat treat leader who thrives in heavy manufacturing environments, enjoys developing people, and has a track record of driving transformational change, we'd like to connect.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Vision, Hearing, Life Insurance, Disability, 401(k) with company match, Profit Sharing, ESOP, FSA/HSA programs, paid time off, vacation, and paid holidays.

Scot Forge is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and inclusion and welcome all qualified candidates to apply.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.