Focused Factory Ops Manager

Description

Are you looking for an opportunity with plenty of growth potential? Do you enjoy working in an
exciting, fast-paced, collaborative environment? Are you interested in working with the world’s most innovative companies to create a more connected world?
 

Connecting Continents. Impacting Communities.
 

The backbone of the Internet is a series of high-tech subsea fiber optic cables deployed throughout the globe - SubCom has deployed over 50% of them. Our employees ensure data communications networks are engineered, manufactured, deployed, and maintained to the highest standards, enabling faster and more reliable connectivity to communities worldwide. Every member of the SubCom team plays a role in an end-to-end process that is critical to enterprises, governments, big cities, and rural towns.
 

We encourage, expect, and value creativity, thoughtful risk taking, openness to change, and diverse perspectives. Whether you’re a seasoned applicant seeking a new and exciting challenge, or you’re new to the workforce and looking for a flexible, rewarding, and fast-paced position with an innovative and stable organization (since 1953), SubCom has opportunities to advance your career.

Position Overview:

Operations Managers are responsible for the day-to-day operations and short/long-term planning for the groups they manage. They manage manufacturing, production control, engineering and inventory control, focusing on the development of technologies and continuous improvement and translating customer requirements into state-of-the-art manufacturing strategies for the focused process. 

Responsibilities and Duties: 

• Responsibilities and Duties: Responsible for the day-to-day operations and longer-term planning for manufacturing functions, including manufacturing, production control, engineering, inventory control, purchasing, and quality. 

• Defines goals, improves technologies, and resolves problems.  

• Develops operations related plans, budgets, and policies and procedures.  

• Responsible for analyzing customer demand against existing capacity and driving effective and timely implementation of CER's to continuously improve deliveries, costs and quality.  

• Responsible for analyzing manufacturing variances and identifying root cause. Assign projects to owning disciplines for implementation of corrective action. Measure for effectiveness to continuously improve manufacturing margins. 

• Responsible for continuously improving standard costs. Assign projects for standard cost improvements. Measure for effectiveness of improvement to meet customers’ productivity expectations. 

• Responsible for analyzing delivery and quality constraints. Use DMAIC process to identify root cause and assign projects within team for implementation of corrective action. Measure for effectiveness to continuously improve and control delivery and quality performance. 

• Responsible for assessing skills within local control (plant) and matching skills to requirements. Identify areas where improvement of skills are required and implement training plan to meet requirements. 

• Responsible to continuously drive towards lean manufacturing through the elimination of redundancy and waste. 

• Responsible for focusing factory team on driving continuous improvement projects in quality, costs, and delivery, through KPI’s Lean Manufacturing) and philosophy. 

• Plays a key role in the capacity planning process and leads the implementation of new capacity when needed. 

• Leads the annual budgeting and monthly forecasting process for the value stream. 

• Works closely with the launch organization on the introduction of new products.  

• Responsible for year over year productivity, financial and safety improvement  

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
 

Candidates for positions with SubCom must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Employment eligibility verification will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not
available for this position.
 

Our selection procedure is based on local, state and federal law. Please be sure to attach a resume to your application. We are not able to consider applications without a resume.
 

BENEFITS

SubCom offers a comprehensive benefits package, including but not limited to: competitive salaries, medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverages, FSA, HSA, generous vacation, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, and a 401(k) plan with generous company match. Additionally, some positions may be eligible for shift differential. Note: If the posting is for an internship position, delete all benefit information.
 

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL EMPLOYER OPPORTUNITY
SubCom is committed to providing a work environment that prohibits discrimination on the basis of age, color, disability, ethnicity, marital status, national origin, race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability or any other characteristics protected by applicable law or regulation.
 

SubCom engineers, manufactures, and installs subsea fiber optic data cables - the unsung heroes of global communication. With an unrelenting focus on quality, reliability, and value, SubCom offers flexible end-to-end building blocks for the high-tech networks that are the backbone of the world's digital infrastructure. Since 1955, SubCom has deployed enough cable to circle the equator more than 21 times.
 

SUBCOM’S CORE VALUES
Quality - Accountability - Teamwork - Innovation

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or Business; with advanced degree preferred. Equivalent combination of education and additional operational experience will be considered.  

• Minimum five years’ experience working as a manufacturing manager and/or manufacturing manager.   

• Project leadership experience, with strong organization and project management skills. 

• Demonstrated knowledge of financial terms and concepts.  

• Knowledge of Operations Management and contemporary manufacturing/quality methods and systems. 

• Knowledge of Statistical Process Control. 

• Lean, Six Sigma, TPS, or DMAIC experience is strongly desired. 

• Demonstrated motivational and leadership skills. 

• Previous experience managing people and effective employee relation skills required. 

• Experience with computer-based Manufacturing Information Systems. 

• Experience with Inventory Management/Control systems. 

• Good working knowledge of MRP II planning and execution concepts preferred.