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Director of Operations

Sterling Engineering, Inc.
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 4/16/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/15/2025

Employment Type : Permanent

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Job Category : Other Professional

Job Number : Hd968236116

Compensation : $140000-160000 / year

Job Description

Title : Director of Operations

Location : Chicago, IL (Onsite, 1 day remote per week)

Salary : $145k bonus

Overview :

Sterling has helped build careers for thousands of professionals like yourself. Our expert recruiters support you at every step in the process and as a Best of Staffing company, Sterling provides exciting work with exceptional employers across the U.S.

Job Duties :

  • Provides technical leadership and guides engineering manager in product development and design.
  • Directs R&D efforts to apply best technologies for competitive advantages.
  • Manages product development, maintaining schedules, budgets, and cost estimates.
  • Establishes priorities for engineering resources in new product development and sustaining support.
  • Verifies patent processes and monitors engineering schedules.
  • Collaborates with Marketing and Sales on refining product concepts and costs.
  • Develops best practices, standards, policies, and workflow.
  • Controls operations and engineering budgets, forecasting costs.
  • Ensures operational conformance to quality system standards and ISO certification.
  • Implements procedures for maintaining manufacturing standards, product quality, reliability, and safety.
  • Analyzes operating expenses, recommends cost containment strategies.
  • Approves recommendations for manufacturing facility projects.
  • Works with production planner for customer service and production efficiency.
  • Directs integration of product and inventory processes.
  • Provides mentoring, training, and coaching to team members.
  • Promotes company-wide improvement efforts and lean manufacturing.
  • Reviews and performs routing submittals from production.
  • Develops standards, metrics, and procedures for efficient inventory management.

Qualifications :

  • B.S. in Engineering or a related technical field; MBA or equivalent.
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in Engineering & Operations.
  • Experience managing direct reports within engineering and operations.
  • Knowledge of accrediting agencies and ISO9001 : 2015 compliance.
  • Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

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