Director of Operations

Director of Operations

As an essential business, Anomatic produces innovative and sustainable packaging for today's biggest brands. By leveraging over five decades of manufacturing expertise and employing an extensive technologies portfolio, we design, manufacture, and finish incomparable stock and customized solutions for numerous markets.

The Director of Operations is a key leadership role in the company with specific responsibility for their flagship facility within the organization's footprint. This site produces all the company's key products in a high-volume/high-mix production environment. The Director of Operations will have full day-to-day responsibility for the facility including full oversight over plant operations over multiple departments. In accordance with top-down commitment from the leadership team, the Director of Operations will be responsible for establishing a high-performance work culture using Lean manufacturing/TPS principals. They will utilize Lean concepts in the development of a problem-solving culture and teach associates how to identify and eradicate waste, and complete root cause analysis to drive daily continuous improvement.

Essential Functions:

• Manage work priorities and timelines and allocate resources to assure assigned plant goals and timelines are met. This includes planning production operations and establishing priorities and sequences for manufacturing products.
• Coordinate manufacturing activities to ensure production and quality of products meet specifications.
• Lead and develop a strong daily management process with factory team to deliver on operational KPIs and business financials. Lead, coach and train employees toward Lean manufacturing concepts and foster environment for an empowered, high-performance plant.
• Ability to anticipate, negotiate and manage conflicts, problems, changing situations and deadlines.
• Strong floor presence: we seek an on-the-floor leader.
• Make recommendations to improve productivity, quality, and efficiency of operations. Execute approved projects on budget and schedule.
• Make hire and fire decisions responsibly. Train and develop a team and create a succession plan.
• Maintain OSHA, environmental, and other regulatory agency compliance.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing, Operations, Mechanical or Industrial Engineering or similar technical field preferred
• Experience in metal fabrication is required.
• Experience in metal stamping, preferably eyelet or progressive, is preferred
• Experience working/scheduling in a high-volume/high-mix environment required
• Strong manufacturing leadership experience in discrete manufacturing environments with demonstrable results. The ideal candidate will have 1015 years of work experience and at least five years of experience leading operations teams.
• Experience working in businesses with less than $200M in revenue. (Understands idiosyncrasies of mid-sized and/or family-owned / run businesses. Enjoys being able to make an impact more than having big company resources big fish / small pond.)
• Five-plus years working in strong Lean cultures required
• Must have had roles with P&L responsibility and must have working knowledge of budgets and financial statements.

Competencies:

• Lean manufacturing methodologies
• ERP Systems
• Strategic and Tactical abilities
• Microsoft Office
• Root Cause Management
• Collaboration
• Continuous Improvement
• Leadership Development
• KPIs and Countermeasures
• Succession Planning

Benefits you can expect from Anomatic:

• Competitive Pay and bonus
• Career Growth
• Health Coverage Starting Your First Day
• 401K with Company Match, to help save for the future
• Paid Time Off to Enjoy Family or Hobbies
• Gym Membership Reimbursements, to help you stay active
• Training, to help hone skills
• Many more!

Anomatic takes pride in creating a safe and inclusive environment that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees and the communities in which they live. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.