Director Manufacturing

Your responsibilities

• Strategic planning for local business unit and aligning local strategy with that of the broader regional and global operations strategy and overall corporate strategy.

• Tactical execution of all initiatives, developments, changes, etc. that impact the production plant manufacturing process in EMEA.

• Creating and contributing to best practices and improvements, and working with other regional production plant operations to share and integrate best practices

• Building and maintaining relationships with customers and materials and/or equipment suppliers.

• Responsible for the development and implementation of an organizational structure that enables the business to scale and supports production needs spanning multiple shifts.

• Responsible for meeting or beating key operating metrics/targets around quality, lead-time, on-time delivery, customer satisfaction, operational costs, excellent customer service, etc.

• Staff Development: Responsible for recruiting, staffing, and training of skilled and semi-skilled positions to support on-going production needs in a high growth environment.  Responsible for developing future leaders for local operation and identifying and developing leaders that can be exported to other areas of the business

• Required to develop and coach internal candidates for leadership roles at the production plant processes.

• Drive/champion continuous process improvement methodologies and techniques that will create significant efficiencies in the process that include, but are not limited to, process flow improvements, process automation, scrap reduction, systems and infrastructure improvements, etc.

• Establish process capabilities and controls; monitor and perform audits of all processes, provide technical support to operations with existing processes and commercialization of new processes and equipment.

• Optimize equipment utilization, determine and implement area layout, and material flows to optimize operations. Analyze, specify, and implement material/data-handling equipment and systems that costs effectively improve operations.

• Define and coordinate projects with key focus in cost and scrap reduction, efficiency improvements, and quality improvements.

• Provide guidance from an production plant manufacturing perspective, in the areas of regulation and compliance.

Our requirements