Josh Varn

Josh Varn is Vice President of Operations at Steelhead Composites, where he leads production, logistics, and the operational execution required to support customer programs. His responsibilities include production planning, manufacturing execution, process implementation, workforce development, and safe delivery in accordance with customer and quality requirements.

Josh brings more than 20 years of leadership experience across advanced manufacturing, composite structures, and military operations. Before joining Steelhead in 2014, he helped plan and open two production facilities and established and trained 12 self-sufficient manufacturing teams. At Vestas, he progressed from production work and field blade repair into production supervision, where his team helped implement standardized work for composite wind-blade manufacturing.

Josh began his leadership career in the U.S. Navy, where his team supported worldwide route planning, foreign-port coordination, navigational-material sourcing, and routing for a seven-ship battle group.