Reduced annual manufacturing overhead from $96 million to $82 million in 18 months.
Manufacturing Operating Partner
Turn operational pressure into disciplined performance.
JWM helps manufacturers stabilize operations, accelerate plant ramp-up, and build management systems that deliver results without constant executive intervention. We get results through people—supported by data, standard work, and disciplined operating systems.
$14MAnnual overhead removed in 18 months—from $96M to $82M
40%Throughput efficiency gain in month one of a greenfield launch
20%Scrap reduction generating nearly $2M in 12-month savings
230Greenfield workforce built from zero, including 45 salaried leaders
Selected career highlights
Performance and people—measured together.
Reduced scrap 20%, generating nearly $2 million in 12-month savings.
Improved inventory accuracy 50% through disciplined warehouse-management and Plan for Every Part execution.
Achieved the highest employee satisfaction score in plant history at 88%, alongside a 96% personal leadership evaluation.
Built a 230-person greenfield workforce, including 45 salaried professionals, while maintaining first-year turnover below 30%.
Earned a 74% first-year employee survey score at the greenfield operation, ranking in the top 20% among 41 plants.
Completed a year-long Senior Leadership Program, credentialed by Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning.
Capabilities
Practical support from diagnosis through execution.
Each engagement is designed around the operating problem—not a generic consulting playbook.
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Plant Performance Assessment
A focused, on-site diagnostic that converts operational symptoms into a prioritized action plan with clear owners, economics, and timing.
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Performance Transformation
Hands-on execution support to stabilize flow, increase throughput, strengthen daily accountability, and build the leadership cadence required to sustain gains.
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Fractional Operating Leadership
Experienced COO-level partnership for owners and investors who need operating discipline, stronger plant leadership, and measurable progress without a full-time executive hire.
The JWM approach
Build the system. Develop the leaders. Make performance visible.
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See the operation clearly
Establish the facts at the gemba: flow, constraints, labor, quality, material, leadership behaviors, and management cadence.
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Install lean operating discipline
Translate the critical few losses into standard work, visual management, practical countermeasures, accountable owners, and a daily execution rhythm.
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Develop leaders who sustain results
Use servant leadership and leader standard work to build teams around three critical focuses: Training, Empowerment, and Accountability.
Leadership philosophy
Training. Empowerment. Accountability.
We get results through people. Data clarifies the problem, systems create consistency, and capable leaders turn both into sustained performance.
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Training
Build the capability, confidence, and standard work required to perform the role well.
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Empowerment
Give leaders the authority, information, and coaching to make sound decisions at the right level.
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Accountability
Set clear expectations, inspect the process, and follow through consistently on commitments and results.
Operating experience
Leadership forged at every level of the plant.
Team Leader→Production Supervisor→Production Manager→Senior Operations Manager→Assistant General Manager / COO→General Manager / Plant Manager
JWM is led by Jamar Murchison, a manufacturing executive with 15+ years across automotive and manufactured housing operations. He has personally worked through every major layer of plant leadership—from frontline team leader to full P&L general manager.
That progression gives JWM a practical understanding of what leaders at each level need to succeed. Jamar specializes in servant leadership, lean manufacturing, leadership development, and leader standard work, grounded in his Training, Empowerment, and Accountability philosophy.
His experience also includes launching greenfield facilities, leading a five-plant, 1,400-person campus, building a 230-person organization from zero, and improving cost, throughput, quality, inventory, and engagement in complex operating environments.
View Jamar on LinkedIn ↗Training · Empowerment · AccountabilityServant leadershipLeader standard workLeadership developmentLean manufacturingFull P&L ownership
Investment interest
A long-term partner to industrial businesses.
JWM also evaluates established, lower-middle-market industrial companies where engaged ownership and operating expertise can support durable growth.
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Based in Conway, Arkansas · Available for select engagements across the United States