Fractional operations leadership for manufacturers, fabricators and distributors that have outgrown firefighting but don't need a full-time hire. I come on-site, find what's slowing the work down, fix it with your team, and add AI tools only where they pay off.
Most plants between 20 and 250 people hit the same wall: the owner or GM is running operations on top of everything else, and the same problems keep coming back.
Loads that ship late, get rushed, or arrive with damage or dirty finishes the customer won't accept.
Hot jobs jump the line, the floor runs on whoever yells loudest, and quotes promise dates the shop can't hit.
The same defects, the same fixes, and no clear owner for stopping them.
You're the plant manager, the scheduler and the expediter, and growth stalls because of it.
No simple daily view of on-time delivery, backlog, scrap or labor, or an ERP nobody believes.
A new building, a new line, a big new customer, or an ops leader who just left.
Built for small and mid-size manufacturers, fabricators and distributors in Greenville, Sulphur Springs, Paris, Tyler, Royse City, Terrell, Kaufman and the east side of DFW. Remote advisory is available anywhere.
Every engagement starts with a free call. Most start with the assessment, so you know exactly what you're paying to fix.
About four days on your floor: walking the process, pulling the data, and talking with your leads and operators. You get a written report with your biggest problems, the quick wins, and a 90-day roadmap. It's yours to keep. If you move to a monthly retainer within 30 days, the full fee is credited.
A set day or two on-site every week. I run the ops meeting, own the KPIs, and lead the fixes with your supervisors.
4–8 weeks on one problem with a clear finish line, quoted after the assessment.
Morning briefs, quote and proposal drafts, missed-call text-back and back-office automation, set up after the process is fixed. See AI setup
Prices are starting points. Every engagement is confirmed in a short written agreement before work begins. Hourly advisory is available for remote or short questions.
From the first call to a team that runs it without me, in five steps.
30 minutes. What's breaking, what it's costing you, and whether I'm the right fit.
I walk the floor, pull the numbers and talk to the people doing the work.
The priorities that matter, quick wins you can bank in weeks, and a 90-day roadmap.
Working alongside your team on the floor, a set day or two each week.
I train your team, document the systems, and step back. An ongoing retainer is optional.
Owners of contractors, small shops and fab shops lose hours every week to follow-ups, scheduling and keeping track of who owes what. I come in person and set up an AI chief of staff that chases updates, flags overdue jobs and reports to you every morning. You approve every message before it goes out.
Texting crews, subs and vendors for updates that should have come to you.
The whiteboard, the spreadsheet, Jobber: never quite current.
Bids, inspections and deliveries that sneak up on you.
A bot bolted onto a messy process just makes the mess faster. So I start the way I did as a Director of Operations for a commercial manufacturer: watch how the work really moves, fix the bottlenecks, and only then let the AI take over the busywork.
I map how your business really runs, find your 3 biggest time drains, and hand you a written plan to fix them. It's yours to keep, whether or not you hire me for the rest.
When you miss a call, the caller gets an automatic text back. Calls, texts and web form leads land in one list so you can follow up and nobody slips through the cracks.
Drafts quotes and proposals from your notes and pricing, so you review and send them faster. I've built these tools before.
A short email each morning with what matters: open jobs, overdue invoices, follow-ups due and new reviews, pulled from the tools you use.
Invoice reminders, scheduling help, review requests, and your SOPs turned into a bot your staff can ask questions.
I keep an eye on what we set up, fix what breaks, and add one improvement each month. Monthly, quoted after the audit.
Setup runs on your own accounts: you sign in to your tools yourself, so I never handle your passwords. Builds are quoted after the audit, and nothing goes out to a customer without your OK.
I live in Greenville and I've spent my career making operations run. Most recently I was a Director of Operations for a commercial manufacturer, where I ran production on custom-engineered equipment, fixed how finished product shipped so it arrived clean, and built the company's CRM and AI proposal tools. Before that I worked in plants and oilfield operations around the world.
Now I do that work a day or two a week for East Texas plants, and I set up AI assistants for owners who want their evenings back.
You get a senior operations leader for a set part of the week instead of a full-time hire. You get the experience without the salary, benefits and recruiting fee, and you can scale up or down month to month after the first three months.
No. I work through your people. The goal is a team and a set of systems that run without me, and the last step is handing it off.
On-site across Greenville, Hunt County and the surrounding East Texas area, including the east side of DFW. Remote advisory is available anywhere.
That's fine. The AI setup is still offered on its own, starting with the $300–500 ops audit.
No. You approve every outside message before it goes out. The assistant never makes payments, deletes data or changes permissions.
Everything runs on your own accounts. You sign in to your tools yourself, so I never see your passwords. Access is kept to the minimum, I keep what I learn about your business confidential, and an offboarding checklist revokes access if we part ways.
Book a free 30-minute ops call. Tell me what keeps breaking, and I'll tell you honestly whether I can help and what the first step would be.