Director of Operations

Summary:

Responsible for the leadership of all manufacturing and production functions. A proven leader, and professional that is system/data driven, yet hands on as needed.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the manufacturing and production teams with the responsibility of manufacturing, filling, labeling, assembly, and packaging.
• Experienced in manufacturing, production and managing large teams to deliver results in the operational areas of Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Engagement.
• Create operations procedures, specifications, and detailed work instructions for areas of calculating, forecasting, component usage, verifying product in and out of operations and visually inspection products for defects.
• Establish, develop, and execute the appropriate manufacturing/operations strategic plan to support the organization's business and financial goals.
• Formulate and implement strategic changes in manufacturing and operations that guide the organization, maintaining and improving competitive position, profitability, and conformance of products to established customer and company quality standards.
• Participate with other leadership teams and staff members in the development and formulation of long and short-term range planning, programs, and objectives.
• Lead to efforts to continuously improve manufacturing, operational excellence and define related performance metrics/tools.
• Lead a high-performance workforce through effective talent management. Attract, coach, mentor and develop strong leaders within the organization and share ownership with the operations managers in the development of future talent pipeline.
• Work with Quality, Engineering, Safety, Regulatory, and Supply Chain functions to establish inventory plans by product family/site; proactively manage inventory to profit plan, driving improved and sustainable processes.
• Execute the Supply Demand Planning process, driving ownership and collaboration across stakeholder groups, meeting customer expectations and company profit plan objectives.
• Interact with executive team and individual departments to ensure that the company’s operational priorities are aligned with total company directions.

Qualifications, Education and/or Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent required. MBA is desirable.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in a senior management role.
• Experience in ISO 13485 standard environments preferred.
• Broad knowledge of standards of manufacturing technology, equipment, safety, organizational development/management, finance, and employee relations.
• Manufacturing strategy development and execution
• Experience in collaborating with Engineering to establish manufacturing and production automation.
• Excellent organizational and leadership. Motivational, analytical problem solving and strategic thinking skills.
• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrated proficiency utilizing networked PC’s using Windows, Microsoft D365 F&O or SAP.

Language Skills:

• English required, bilingual (Spanish) a plus.

Physical Demands:

• Position requires walking, standing for prolonged periods, occasionally required to sit, climb, or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. May frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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