Director of Operations

  • Industry: Industrial | Commercial Manufacturing
  • Location: Milwaukee, WI area
  • Relocation: Full Relocation Package

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years operational experience in the manufacturing industry predominately in custom | low volume. 5+ years leadership and team building experience overseeing an entire facility or multiple sites.
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Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will have 10+ years operational experience in the manufacturing industry predominately in custom | low volume. 5+ years leadership and team building experience overseeing an entire facility or multiple sites.

Primary Responsibilities

  • Manage and direct all division manufacturing operations activities to ensure completion of customer and business requirement
  • Oversees operational management and strategy for supply chain | logistics
  • Implement a standardized Business Operating System to assess division and site metrics and coordinate actions to ensure schedule, cost, quality, and safety goals are met
  • Manage division and site processes to assess monthly financial performance and establish accurate forecasts for manufacturing profit, inventory, capital and other financial metric
  • Lead efforts across company to implement lean management systems, lean tools and high performance work teams and standardize key processes including materials management and quality systems
  • Execute an operational strategy that supports industry leading performance in cost
  • Lead projects and initiatives across the company in support of the manufacturing operations and group strategies
  • Supports Program Management with operations resources to ensure new product development activities deliver products that align to Operations strategy and performance objectives for cost and quality
  • Assure that all manufacturing plants meet environmental, health, and safety requirements considering local regulations, company policy and sustainability
  • Build organization capability through assessment and management of key leadership positions, coaching of operational leaders and strategic development actions
  • Hires, trains, develops and evaluates staff – taking corrective action as necessary and in a timely manager in accordance with company policy
  • Ensures compliance with current federal, state, and local regulations – consulting with the Human Resources Department as appropriate
  • Manage resource investment in organization development, capital equipment and new technology to assure organizational, manufacturing, product and market leadership; and establish and lead an effective capital management process

Position Requirements

  • Minimum of 10+ years manufacturing operations experience including plant management.
  • Minimum of 5+ years of experience leading and managing a significant segment/business unit of a large industrial manufacturer or the entire operation of a smaller manufacturer
  • Previous experience in the electrical engineering industry leading in a manufacturing environment
  • Background in driving continuous improvement activities to improve operational performance including knowledge of lean management systems and lean tool
  • Broad knowledge of key operational systems including), materials planning systems (MRP), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and quality systems with diverse experience managing varied and complex manufacturing processes
  • Strong leadership skills along with proven capability to deliver results and build high performance teams

Compensation Details

  • Competitive Salary + Bonus Program
  • Full Benefits, Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Retirement, 401K Matching
  • Outstanding Culture, Vertical Career Mobility and Valued Benefits

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