Fractional Operations Leadership
Executive-level operating leadership, embedded on a fractional basis, without a permanent executive hire. The difference from advisory consulting is ownership: we take direct responsibility for operational outcomes and work the plan with your people until it holds. Built for independent owners and for PE-backed operators managing integration and performance pressure.
What it includes
Fractional COO, embedded
Three-month initial engagement
- Stabilization and performance. Operational stabilization and performance improvement where results have slipped or never settled.
- Throughput and productivity. Where manufacturing output is lost, why, and the daily discipline that recovers it.
- Daily management systems. KPIs, escalation and an operating cadence with your leadership team, not a quarterly check-in.
- Supply chain, reliability and organization. Supply chain performance, maintenance reliability and organizational effectiveness.
- Leadership and accountability. Developing supervisors and managers, with clear standards and real follow-through.
- Expansion, turnaround or transformation. Execution support when the business is growing, recovering or changing how it runs.
- PE fluency. Built around the reporting and performance pressure of a PE-owned portfolio company.
Monthly retainer with a three-month initial engagement, or a defined-scope project. Contact for details.
The work
Interstitial Operations Group is a fractional manufacturing operations service firm. We put fractional COO leadership inside small and midsize manufacturers to close the gap between what ownership plans and what the floor executes.
Throughput
Where output is lost, why, and the daily discipline that keeps it recovered.
Operating systems
Daily management, KPIs, escalation and a meeting rhythm that holds.
Maintenance reliability
Planned, measured maintenance in place of reactive repair.
Workforce performance
Supervisors and frontline leads with clear standards and the training to run their shift.
Based in Canajoharie, New York, working across the Mohawk Valley, Capital Region and upstate New York. Region
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