Director of Operations

Job Purpose

The Director, Operations leads and manages the operations function including production manufacturing engineering, manufacturing process, quality, and activities from production planning to shipment. He/she uses materials management skills as a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of industry practices, company policies, procedures, tools, and business disciplines within the organization.

Nature of Duties/Responsibilities

• Handle complex projects such as an entire customer transfer, including supply chain, product qualification, test, process, scheduling, etc.
• Find and address complex root causes affecting plants, for example throughput issues and yield issues.
• Calculate industrialization estimates for quoting complex jobs (such as moving customer factories from their site to a Sanmina site, setting up pivot lines, etc.).
• Deploy and track new programs in North America working directly with plant leadership teams on fundamentals, processes, procedures, resource planning, program management, execution, customer satisfaction, communication, technical solutions. He would be a real onboarding coach, an improvement over our current process (which mostly involves documentation and occasional training).
• Drive and supervise optimal balance of service to cost and profitability.
• Ensure plant responsiveness to customer requests through materials, inventory, and cost management.
• Monitor and report results.
• Handle material flow encompassing shipping and warehouse and production floor.
• Review and plan requirements for acceptable inventory.
• Maintain inventory at acceptable levels.
• Coordinate with finance/accounting on matters involving inventory carrying costs.
• Ensure material availability.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree required, Mechanical, Industrial or Mfg Engineering preferred.
• 10+ years of engineering or management experience in a regulated manufacturing environment. Printed circuit board experience is a plus but not required.
• 5+ years of direct people management.
• Knowledge of lean principles (green or black belt certification a plus).
• Demonstrated experience leading diverse teams in a dynamic environment required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills required.
• Open‑minded self‑starter with the ability to adapt, improvise, and problem‑solve, as well manage multiple tasks and projects and concisely explain complex issues supported with data.
• Experience running multidisciplinary teams, manufacturing operations, P&L centers.
• Customer facing experience, experienced in customer quality audits, run at rate qualifications, process development, industrial engineering, lean 6‑sigma, supply chain management, MRP execution.
• Business and financial acumen – strong P&L and balance sheet knowledge.
• Project planning and management – detailed, roll‑up sleeves approach, capacity planning, bottleneck analysis, yield prediction, line balancing, staffing, NPI.
• Self‑starter demonstrates initiative and commitment, able to influence all levels of leadership.
• Excellent organizational and negotiation skills, strong analytical capabilities.
• Prowess with Office and Google products and software, Oracle ERP applications.

Sanmina is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Salary Range (annual): $150,000 - $165,000

Actual base pay within this range (determined at the offer stage) will be based on a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, and skills, and is just one element of our total rewards package. The total rewards package also includes a variety of benefits, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business and, depending on the role, may include eligibility for restricted stock unit awards and participation in a discretionary bonus program.