Director of Operations - Manufacturing
hace 15 días
Derby
Our client is a global B2B Technology & Industrial products company seeking a strong Director of Operations. \n \n\n • Ensure plant operations meet all company and government safety and environmental rules and regulations.\n, • Instills a plant safety culture to drive world-class occupational and process safety performance.\n, • Establish strategic goals for manufacturing and technical center while aligning operational activities with Company goals and values.\n, • Build collaborative relationships and effectively interact with business, senior leaders and stakeholders.\n, • Drives plant productivity and efficiency by monitoring processes and leveraging most effective technologies across the regions.\n, • Establish strategy for plants to ensure that delivery of manufactured products meet safety, quality, cost and on-time delivery goals in support of associated business objectives.\n, • Create metrics and evaluate the efficiency of business procedures according to organizational objectives and apply improvements by analyzing and interpreting data and metrics of various disciplines.\n, • Work with plant managers to develop and adjust operation budgets to promote profitability, monitor revenue margins and ensure Company goals are achieved or exceeded.\n, • Responsible for staff management and development including assigning and directing work, appraising performance, hiring, training and retention, disciplining, addressing complaints and resolving problems.\n, • Cooperates and effectively communicates with business units to meet Company objectives.\n, • Leads change management activities for area of responsibility.\n, • Coach, mentor and develop the team by fostering an environment of continuous learning, and encouraging global collaboration in a geographically and culturally dispersed organization.\n, • Provides process technology subject matter expertise to operations team.\n, • Supports and champions any process safety programs, policies and procedures.\n, • Supports sustainability initiatives.\n\n \n Knowledge / Experience / Skills Required \n \n\n • Demonstrated ability to build on new data-led culture in operations facility, and be an effective driver of change.\n, • Degree in a relevant discipline\n, • Desired: a graduate degree (M.S. Eng., or MBA).\n, • Ten years of managerial experience with budgetary responsibility in the consumer/electro-mechanical industry preferred.\n, • Ideally from a competitive/lean manufacturing environment, with a strong focus on operations, lean and CI.\n, • Knowledge of current Health, Safety, and Environmental legislation and standards.\n, • A keen focus on regulatory compliance a plus.\n, • Proven management experience in process plant.\n, • Worked in an environment of leading organization capabilities. In other words able to get it done with limited resources (people and financials).\n, • Demonstrated ability to create and implement innovative solutions to complex problems running a single train / multi-product operating facility.\n, • Demonstrated ability to lead, direct and positively motivate others.\n, • Strong ability to identify, develop and encourage talent.\n, • Demonstrated results in process improvement and experience in reliability best practices and programs\n, • Proven ability to measure performance and deliver against objectives.\n, • Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to influence all levels of the organization. \n, • Evidence of ongoing training/development at a senior level to current best practice.\n