Crisis Management and Business Continuity Manager

Founded and family‐owned since 1896, Rhoads Industries is a total solution provider of industrial fabrication, mechanical/maintenance and maritime services. In addition to our field service and project skilled labor, Rhoads has expansive shipyard facilities and over 300,000 square feet of heavy manufacturing space located in The Navy Yard in Philadelphia. Rhoads’ capabilities enable our customers to achieve superior results by deploying our diverse, highly skilled workforce and fabrication capabilities across commercial, government and maritime projects, all backed by state‐of‐the‐art resources and a 100+ year legacy of leadership. As a member of the Rhoads team, you’ll join a quickly growing team of energetic, skilled tradespeople and professionals who are committed to delivering exceptional products and services to our customers across every market we serve. We are building on our success across more than a century by continuing to grow an innovative company dedicated to building exciting careers. Come join our journey, and experience what it means to be Done Right with Rhoads . We are currently looking for a Crisis Management and Business Continuity Manager to join our dynamic, fast-paced, and growing team. The Crisis Management and Business Continuity Manager is responsible for leading the strategic design, deployment, and ongoing execution of Rhoads Industries' corporate resilience strategy. This leader serves as the central orchestration point for evaluating threat environments, mitigating production-line down-times, safeguarding heavy asset lifecycles, and driving immediate multi-department response mechanisms during active organizational disruptions. A foundational mandate of this role is the cultivation of strong collaborative frameworks with Rhoads' executive stakeholder ecosystem. The Manager will routinely engage, advise, and partner with Senior Leaders across Operations, Maritime, Facilities, Programs, Security, Safety, Quality, IT, Contracts, Finance, HR, Compliance, and Legal departments to develop and implement cohesive mitigation architectures: What You Will Be Doing Risk Assessment & Business Impact Analysis (BIA) Cross-Departmental BIAs: Lead the formal development, deployment, and programmatic upkeep of comprehensive Business Impact Analyses and Risk Assessments across all core corporate functions. Threat Modeling: Facilitate risk workshops with senior departmental leaders to explicitly calculate down-time thresholds, recovery time objectives (RTOs), and recovery point objectives (RPOs). Vulnerability Mapping: Identify, map, and catalog industrial supply chain single-points-of-failure, physical facility security weak points, and programmatic software dependencies. Crisis Architecture & Plan Development Resilience Documentation: Draft, maintain, and scale specialized industrial crisis response and business continuity blueprints reflecting ISO 22301 and DoW compliance metrics. Incident Command System (ICS): Structure organizational escalation paths, formal corporate alert matrices, and localized emergency command posts aligned to industrial and shipyard environments. Playbook Modernization: Regularly adapt playbooks to combat emerging threats, including extreme coastal weather, shipyard facility infrastructure failures, and targeted cyber-physical attacks. Testing, Simulation & Readiness Training Exercise Execution: Design and implement routine tabletop simulations, live-action evacuation dry runs, and system-wide emergency communication drills for all staff levels. Executive De-briefs: Deliver data-driven post-exercise reports and corrective gap analyses directly to the VP, Risk Management, and Senior Leadership teams to foster continuous optimization. Additional Duties as Assigned Your Background Bachelor’s degree in Emergency Management, Business Continuity, Risk Management, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience). Minimum of 5-7 years of progressive ownership over Busi…

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