Director of Operations (Franklin)

JOB SUMMARY

The Director of Operations is responsible for activities related to production in the machining, assembly, and facilities areas. They are to execute on production orders that result in efficiency, on-time delivery, cost effectiveness while maintaining the highest quality output levels.

RESPONSIBILTIES

• Manage and delegate the workload for the production operations ensuring that the work is complete on-time with high quality results
• Managing by metrics and holding people, departments accountable
• Oversees the areas of shop floor, assembly, supply chain and engineering
• Asset Management: Assessing the needs of capital equipment to ensure that customer’s needs are met, decommissioning, preventative maintenance
• Oversees issues pertaining to the machining capital equipment
• Compiling and delivering operational metrics to executive management
• Assesses and provides key data to any prospective customer’s production requirements
• Plans, prepares, controls forecast direct and indirect budgets
• Managing the human capital output to keep labor costs at budget
• Manage and mentor direct reports
• Other duties as assigned

REQUIREMENTS

• 10 + years precision machining, manufacturing environment, maintaining high quality output
• Experience in production flow from developmental stage to production
• Implementation of successfully introducing and applying lean into an organization
• Change Management
• Experience reporting to a Board or Executive Management Team
• Greenbelt Certified
• MS Office, ERP
• Proven record on executing organizational objectives
• Human Capital Management; Managing, mentoring others, identifying key employees and maximizing employee talents
• Creating and managing department budgets
• Effective communication across the organization

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s in Engineering, Supply Chain, or a technical discipline
• 10 + years precision machining, manufacturing environment, maintaining high quality output