Senior Manager, Manufacturing Operations

Role Overview

• Establish the site’s operating model, mission, and performance rhythm to align with NVIDIA’s broader manufacturing and supply objectives.
• Partner to lead day-to-day site operations, coordinating people, resources, and factory interfaces to ensure build plans are accomplished, and supply commitments are protected.
• Serve as the primary NVIDIA contact for Houston-area manufacturing partners, addressing operational and business issues in a structured and timely manner.
• Provide leadership during factory disruptions, emergency response situations, and recovery efforts, ensuring clear communication, addressing critical issues, and restoring stable operations.
• Build and develop the Texas operations team, including workforce planning, hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
• Foster a culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with internal functions across planning, engineering, quality, materials, IT and logistics to align working models, tools, important metrics, and resource plans.
• Act as a senior point of contact when cross-functional alignment is required.
• Coordinate continuity of supply assurance processes, including forecast acceptance alignment and execution through delivery of finished goods into NVIDIA-managed distribution and customer-owned hubs.
• Manage site-level budgets and resources responsibly, ensuring operational investments support performance, resiliency, and long-term scalability.
• Provide regular, clear reporting on operational performance, risks, and recovery actions to senior leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ overall years of experience in manufacturing partner environments, production planning, or manufacturing operations, including at least 5 years of direct people leadership.
• Strong understanding of board, system, and network product manufacturing flows, with demonstrated capability leading complex operational programs.
• Proven experience establishing operating structures, performance cadences, and cross-functional alignment mechanisms in manufacturing environments.
• Experience working within global manufacturing networks and distributed supply bases.
• Structured analytical and problem-solving capability, with sound operational judgment.
• Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to align technical and business collaborators.
• Experience managing performance through key performance indicators and establishing a culture of continual improvement, while operating effectively in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment.

Benefits

• NVIDIA offers competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
• Equity and benefits eligibility.