Head of Operations & Business Management

Diode Laser Concepts, Inc. is a design and manufacturing company providing our customers unique laser diode solutions to meet their OEM requirements.company is expanding its workforce to serve its customers in the medical, machine vision, industrial, automotive, oil/gas, and aerospace industries.We offer competitive salaries and benefits packages, flexible work schedules, and a collaborative and energetic work environment.

Overview The Director of Operations is responsible for leading all site-level operational functions within a highly engineered laser manufacturing environment. This role ensures safe, efficient, and scalable operations aligned with strategic objectives, revenue targets, and EBITDA performance goals. The Director of Operations partners closely with Engineering, Sales, Finance, and senior leadership to drive execution, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across the business.

Functional Responsibilities Lead all manufacturing and operational functions to achieve on-time delivery, cost, quality, and safety targets

Ensure capacity planning and production scalability to support forecasted demand

Drive operational discipline in scheduling, procurement, inventory management, and logistics

Develop and maintain effective planning and scheduling of work order flow.

Own operational budget and cost structure

Manage labor, overhead, scrap, and inventory performance

Manufacturing Excellence Execute Lean manufacturing principes and continuous improvement programs

Improve capacity, throughput, yields, floor layout, and production line optimization

Ensure quality and regulatory standards are achieved

Utilize processing engineering resources for continuous improvement and SPC.

ERP/MRP and business system acumen Demonstrated proficiency with ERP systems, including the ability to leverage system data to improve operational and business performance

Strong understanding of MRP principles, including demand planning, forecasting, material requirements, inventory management, and production scheduling

Highly capable in using ERP/MRP and other business systems to analyze data, identify issues, and drive informed decision-making

Supply Chain & Procurement Strengthen supplier performance, cost control, and risk mitigation

Streamline JIT delivery strategies, min/max inventory levels, and purchase order lead times and quantities to ensure on time delivery and financial objectives are met

Define and maintain a strategy for excellence in supply chain management

Quality & Compliance Ensure quality system, continuous improvement, and training program and objectives are effectively accomplished

Maintain compliance with customer, regulatory, and industry standards

Assist in ISO 9001:2015 implementation in Operations Function

Exercise our Quality tenets of Excellence, Teamwork, Training, Improvement, Critical Thinking, Data Evaluation, People.

Facility & Infrastructure Oversee facility operations, equipment maintenance, and capital planning

Ensure infrastructure supports current and projected manufacturing and environmental requirements.

Sales to support forecast and customer commitments

Finance on budgeting, forecasting, inventory controls, cost controls

Leadership in strategic planning and growth initiatives.

Leadership & Culture Exhibit a leadership style complaint with the company values: Create and develop a high-performing operations team

Establish and maintain clear accountability and performance expectations

Serve as key member of the site leadership team.

S. in Engineering, Operations or related technical discipline

Experience with laser, photonics, optics, semiconductor, aerospace, or similar high-mix, low-to-medium volume manufacturing preferred

Strong background in Lean, Six Sigma, or operational excellence methodologies

Experience managing complex supply chains and technical product lines

Proven ability to scale operations while maintaining quality and margin.

Core Competencies Financial acumen and EBITDA-driven mindset.

Strong, positive, collaborative Operations Team culture

Financial objectives achieved

Robust training program

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

Responsible for transporting items and material up to 25lbs occasionally.

Must visually inspect materials to identify nonconformances in shape, finish, and color

Work Environment The work environmental characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Standard office and manufacturing environment with moderate noise.