About CABN

CABN is a Canadian climate-resilient modular construction company headquartered in Brockville, Ontario, operating an 85,000 sq ft advanced manufacturing facility. Founded in 2021 by CEO Jackson Wyatt, CABN designs and builds high-performance, mass-timber prefabricated housing.

Mission: to deliver sustainable, climate-resilient, multi-generational building systems designed with uncompromising quality, rapid delivery, affordability, and continuous innovation.

Vision: to lead the global transformation of housing and community infrastructure through high-performance, mass-timber buildings that are fast, scalable, and attainable, without sacrificing design, durability, or environmental integrity.

Our six value pillars — Sustainability by Design, Precision & Quality, Speed with Purpose, Affordability at Scale, Innovation with Accountability, and Partnership & Stewardship — are the lens through which every hire is assessed.

The Role

CABN is hiring a Chief Operating Officer to do three things exceptionally well: multiply revenue, build the team that makes growth durable, and industrialize our production system. You will report to the founder & CEO and hold end-to-end accountability for converting a signed order book into delivered homes, recognized revenue, and defended margins — while scaling an 18-person team through a committed hiring plan, leading an interim span of eight-plus reports until new entity VPs land, and multiplying what our Brockville factory can reliably produce.

What You Will Own

–       The full revenue-delivery cycle: contract, production slotting, site delivery, handover, collection.

–       Commercial partnership with the CEO: pricing, unit economics, and growth across B2B, municipal, government, and First Nations channels.

–       The manufacturing line: throughput, takt, OEE, utilization, and cost per unit — and completion of CSA A277 factory certification.

–       The automation roadmap: ROI-ranked capital projects in digital fabrication and factory automation, building on our robotics line, from business case through commissioning.

–       A lean production system with quality built in — exceeding the Ontario Building Code and CABN's energy-performance specifications.

–       The people system: org design, executive and frontline hiring (including entity VP searches), performance, retention, a trades-and-technician training pipeline with our college partnership, and a safety-first culture.

–       Supply chain and site delivery, end to end — including FSC-certified mass-timber sourcing.

–       Operations accountability across the CABN group: factory, project delivery, construction licensing readiness, and Ontario OHSA/WSIB/WHMIS compliance — through leaders you hire.

Your First Year

–       Multiply revenue against a CEO-set target while holding or expanding gross margin.

–       Land a committed hiring plan — including new entity VPs — and stand up the leadership team that scales production and delivery.

–       Scale throughput and cut cost per unit; get a phased automation roadmap approved and phase one delivered.

–       Complete factory certification and construction licensing milestones.

–       Institutionalize KPIs, reporting cadence, and documented safety and quality management systems.

Who You Are

–       Senior operations leadership (COO, VP Operations, GM, or Plant GM) with full P&L or budget accountability in a growth-stage company — and demonstrated revenue outcomes, not just cost control.

–       Strong understanding of construction: residential or commercial build processes, project delivery, trades coordination, building-code fluency.

–       A proven organization builder: you have scaled teams, hired leaders, and kept the people you hired.

–       Hands-on automation credibility: you have specified, justified, and commissioned factory automation — not just supervised it.

–       Lean manufacturing depth (standard work, takt, quality-at-source) with the financial fluency to defend unit economics to a Board.

–       Contract and capital discipline: hands-on CCDC contract administration (CCDC 5A/B, CCDC 2, and CCDC 32 progressive design-build) and Ontario Construction Act fluency — holdbacks, prompt payment, lien-period management.

–       Lender-grade delivery: a track record executing projects under institutional lender or CMHC scrutiny — certified progress draws, milestone billing, and covenant awareness.

–       Multi-entity operating experience: you have run operations across a corporate group with arm's-length intercompany contracting and clean related-party discipline.

–       Public procurement: experience winning and delivering through government and institutional procurement — RFP/RFI responses and public-sector delivery frameworks.

–       An AI-literate operator: demonstrated adoption of AI and digital operating tools to run lean — at CABN, AI systems carry coordination, reporting, and billing mechanics, and the operating model depends on an executive who works that way.

–       Partnership credibility: demonstrated trust-building and delivery with First Nations, municipalities, and government partners.

–       Major assets: prefab/modular/offsite construction experience; homebuilding background; engineering, construction-management, or related technical education (MBA an asset); experience with government-funded innovation programs (NGen, SR&ED) and their audit-ready documentation; factory certification experience (CSA A277 or equivalent); apprenticeship or college training-pipeline building; formal safety-system credentials (COR, ISO 45001); cross-border manufacturing or US market delivery; exposure to regulated utility or infrastructure operations.

Compensation

Competitive base salary, a significant stock option grant, and a performance bonus deliberately engineered around revenue multiplication with a hard gross-margin gate and a scaled-execution scorecard — growth that erodes margin, safety, or build quality does not pay. Equity is the centrepiece: this role is designed so that the operator who multiplies and industrializes CABN participates meaningfully in the value created. Full details shared in process.

Location, On-Site Presence & Travel

This role is based at CABN's 85,000 sq ft manufacturing facility in Brockville, Ontario. The mission is executed on the floor and in the field: a minimum of three days per week on-site in Brockville is a threshold requirement, established in the first conversation, with additional presence expected during production ramps and critical project phases.

–       Relocation and moving support is available for the right candidate — terms discussed at offer.

–       Regular travel to active project sites, partner communities, and supplier facilities is part of the role; business travel is covered under company policy.