What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Operations position at CultureStaff?
Establish and manage operations budgets, capacity and manpower
- Strong understanding and hands on experience with ERP / MRP is desired.
- Ensure operational excellence and customer satisfaction
- Work with Production Director to prepare evaluations and cost justification to support capital expenditures
- Identify and implement changes in manufacturing and planning to improve efficiency, reduce cost and improve quality.
- Work with Production Director to oversee preparation of various manufacturing and SCM reports including job cost analysis, production hours status report, production hour projection and delivery performance
- Participate in design reviews, technical review and program meetings ensuring that manufacturing knowledge, process capability and economic considerations are being shared, considered and acted upon
- Provide leadership to develop and execute operations strategy.
- Informed business decisions by analyzing trends and metrics, modeling financial scenarios, and delivering actionable insights on all aspects of the business
- In depth understanding of complex machinery and equipment used in the production process.
- Progressive problem solving with the use of lean methodologies and cross- communication.
- Interact with various clients in a professional manner to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Identifying strengths and weaknesses in order to build and develop employee and management team.
- Ensure operations and equipment is in compliance to corporate guidelines and OSHA Standards.
- Prioritize cross-training efforts with Supervisors.
- Must also demonstrate successful leadership and team building skills.
- Work with Engineering and Production on implementing NPI schedules and conversion of NPI into production
- Work with Procurement, Production, and Sales Manager on end-to-end SIOP inventory system from when order is placed to shipment.
- Lead Safety efforts and Safety Committee meetings with Production Manager to ensure OSHA compliance and implement safety improvements.
- Manage and analyze all facets of production data, including department and plant level productivity, efficiency, and capacity metrics.
- Any and all other duties assigned by the GM Education and Experience : To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required.
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- Experience : 10 years of senior leadership role managing multiple direct reports within a manufacturing environment. Aerospace manufacturing industry experience a plus.
- Interpersonal skills to communicate with plant manager, sales staff, and warehouse personnel.
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
- Able to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- General proficiency of Microsoft Office software with excellent verbal and written skills.
