Regional Operations Manager Jobs in Tennessee

Regional Operations Manager — Eastern Expansion

Stout Rentals | Nashville–Charlotte Corridor (exact metro open) | Full-time, salaried | $80,000+ base + performance bonus

We're opening our first territory east of the Mississippi — and we need someone to build it from a pickup truck and TC50 to a hub for all things Stout Rentals

Stout Rentals runs towable telescoping conveyors — our own TC-50s — on jobsites the way a concrete pump company runs pumps: we show up, place the material, and bill by the hour. It works. It's faster and cheaper than a crew of guys pushing wheelbarrows, and contractors who use it once tend to call us again.

Right now, every job we run east of the Mississippi means trucking a machine out of Colorado — slow, expensive, and it caps how much work we can chase out there. We're done working around that. We're hiring one person to plant our flag in the Nashville–Charlotte corridor (or surrounding areas), run the first machine themselves, and build a real, revenue-generating territory.

About Stout Rentals

Stout Rentals is the service arm of Stout Conveyors, the Montrose, Colorado manufacturer that designs and builds the TC-50 telescoping conveyor under one roof — laser cutting, welding, powder coat, the works. SR runs that same equipment as an hourly, port-to-port rental-and-operator service for contractors who'd rather not own and maintain a machine themselves. We're growing fast, self-funded, and this hire is how we go national.

What success looks like in 12 months

You're not just running jobs — you're the name GCs, concrete, landscape, and excavation contractors in your market call first when they need material placed and don't want to fight a wheelbarrow crew to do it. Your schedule is filling up. Contractors who've used you once are calling back without you chasing them. You know your market's community by first name.

What you'll own

• Run the machine yourself. You're the operator on every job for at least the first two years — towing, setup, placement, breakdown, and basic field maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Build the book of business. There's no existing customer list in your market. You're finding GCs, concrete contractors, and excavation crews and turning them into repeat business — cold outreach, jobsite visits, relationships, whatever it takes.
• Run your own operation. Scheduling, invoicing support, basic equipment upkeep, and representing the Stout brand like it's yours — because functionally, it is.
• Secure a home base for the equipment. Ideally, you can provide or arrange parking/storage for the machine and truck, which keeps our overhead down and gives you more control from day one.
• Scale into management. Once your schedule is running around 75% full, we bring on a second operator — and you shift from doing every job yourself to running the territory: sales, customer relationships, and managing that operator.

What we're looking for — Required

• Genuine mechanical aptitude — comfortable operating heavy equipment, troubleshooting basic mechanical and hydraulic issues in the field, and towing a loaded trailer without help.
• A real sales instinct and the drive to build something from zero. This is not a role for someone who wants leads handed to them.
• Comfortable being the only person on the job — and on the business — for the first two years. No team, no backup, no one to hand off to.
• Valid driver's license, with a CDL endorsement.
• Based within about an hour of a larger, growing metro in the Nashville–Charlotte corridor, or ready to relocate there. You need to be close enough to jobs to move fast.
• Some computer skills required to be able to manage emails and invoicing
• Able to communicate daily/weekly with Stout Rentals – Colorado in the scheduling of equipment coming and leaving between each division

Preferred

• Background in construction, or another trade where you've run equipment and know your way around a jobsite.
• Outside sales or business-development experience, especially in construction or industrial trades. Not being afraid to speak to people and contractors is huge.
• Experience running your own business, route, or territory — anyone who's had to build their own schedule from nothing.
• A yard to park the truck and trailer would be preferred

Compensation & what we provide

$80,000+ base salary, depending on experience, plus a performance bonus structure built around your market's growth — the specifics are part of the conversation once we're serious about each other. Stout Rentals provides the machine, the tow vehicle, software, training, and marketing and lead-generation support.

As you build this territory, we're open to a real conversation about ownership-style upside — potentially investing in or owning equipment as the division scales. That's not a promise we're making today; it's a conversation we'll have as you prove out the market.

Be honest with yourself before applying

This is not a normal operations job. For at least two years, you are the entire Eastern division — operator, salesperson, dispatcher, and mechanic, with a truck and a machine and a metro full of contractors who've never heard of us. If you want a defined lane and a manager checking in on you every week, this will frustrate you fast. If you've been waiting for a real shot to build something and own the outcome, this is that shot.

How to apply

Send your resume, plus short answers to these two questions:

• Tell us about a time you had to fix or figure out a mechanical problem on your own, with no one to call. What happened?
• If you moved to a brand-new city tomorrow with zero customers and a conveyor sitting in a rented lot, what would your first two weeks look like?

Keep it short — we're reading for how you think, not length. Email responses to info@stoutconveyors.com

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan

Work Location: In person