Your plant manager just left
The seat is filled while you find the right permanent person.
"My plant manager just left and nobody is running the floor."
An empty operations seat does not wait for a search to finish. Shifts still start, customers still expect their orders, and the people left behind start making the call that used to be somebody else's.
An interim executive steps into that seat now. Not to advise from a conference room; to run it. The floor keeps running while your search takes the time a good hire actually takes.
Four of the nine operations roles on the record page were interim seats of exactly this kind. The shortest ran 6 months. The longest ran nearly 5 years, when the company decided the fix was worth keeping.
Questions about this one
- How quickly can somebody start?
- Ask. Availability depends on what is already committed, and the answer comes back the same day.
- How long does an interim assignment run?
- It varies with the problem. Past assignments ran from 6 months to nearly 5 years.
- What happens at the end?
- The assignment ends when your own people have the knowledge and the tools to run it. That is the point of it, not a wind-down.
The other five reasons people call
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Orders are late
You are missing what you promised customers
On-time delivery is the number your customers judge you on.
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Cash is stuck in stock
Too much cash tied up in inventory
Cash sitting in parts nobody needs this quarter.
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The plant is behind
Your plant is falling behind
Safety, quality and efficiency, looked at together.
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The schedule slips
Your schedule keeps slipping
A schedule that looks right on Monday and is gone by Wednesday.
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The team will not move
Your team will not execute
Decisions get made where the work is, or they do not get made.
Let's talk about what is going wrong.
A few sentences is enough. What is late, what is stuck, or which seat is empty.