Ashley Essman
Director of Manufacturing Operations
As the Director of Manufacturing Operations at DI, she plays an essential role in our manufacturing process. Her leadership efforts are primarily focused on safety, schedule, and capacity planning. She handles everything from quality control to forecasting production and project costs. For years she has prioritized, organized, expediated, and helped deliver our remarkable experiences to clients across the country and around the world. Her knowledge and skills support world class interactions between the engineering, project management, manufacturing and install teams. She is intensely focused on the success of DI and is a key player in keeping the Production team successful on a consistent basis.
Ashley graduated from Pittsburg State University in 2011 with a major in Wood Technology (emphasis is wood product manufacturing) She interned at DI during the summer of 2010 as a fabricator. During this internship she gained a lot of hands-on experience, which has been a huge asset to her current role.
When she isn’t at work, Ashley enjoys spending time with her 1 year old son, traveling with her husband and playing recreational league sports.