Job Description
The President of Operations will have end-to-end responsibility for all manufacturing operations across the company's production facilities. The role is responsible for delivering exceptional performance in safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and operational excellence while building a high-performance culture.
The President Operations will lead approximately 1,700 employees across multiple production units and work closely with Production, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, and Sales to ensure customer requirements are consistently met.
Manufacturing Operations:
- Lead manufacturing operations across multiple mini factories within the larger production ecosystem.
- Ensure production plans are executed on time and within budget.
- Improve throughput, capacity utilization, and manufacturing productivity.
- Reduce manufacturing lead time and optimize work-in-process (WIP) inventory.
- Balance capacity across all production departments.
- Reduce waste across all manufacturing processes.
- Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
- Improve productivity through data-driven decision-making.
- Drive operational excellence using measurable KPIs.
Production Planning:
- Ensure effective production scheduling and execution.
- Coordinate with Supply Chain to ensure material availability.
- Manage bottleneck resources.
- Improve production flow.
- Increase on-time delivery performance.
Quality:
- Reduce defects.
- Improve First Pass Yield (FPY).
- Eliminate customer complaints.
- Support compliance with ISO 13485, FDA, MDR, and other applicable regulatory requirements.
- Promote a quality-first culture.
People Leadership:
- Lead, coach, and develop department heads.
- Build succession plans.
- Establish performance management systems.
- Improve employee engagement.
- Develop future production leaders.
- Foster a culture of accountability and ownership.
- Build collaboration across departments.
ERP & Digital Transformation:
- Support the successful implementation and continuous optimization of BC365.
- Drive accurate production reporting and improve data integrity.
- Utilize dashboards and operational KPIs to support timely decision making.
- Promote system discipline and data-driven management across manufacturing operations.
Cost Management:
- Improve labor productivity.
- Reduce manufacturing costs.
- Improve machine utilization.
- Reduce overtime.
- Optimize inventory levels.
Safety:
- Ensure compliance with all company safety policies and procedures.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Production Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Master's degree or MBA preferred.
Experience:
- Minimum 15 years of manufacturing experience, including at least 8 years in a senior operations leadership role.
- Proven experience leading large, multi-site manufacturing operations with more than 800 employees.
- Strong background in precision manufacturing, metalworking, or a comparable high-volume manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated success in improving productivity, throughput, capacity utilization, quality, and operational performance.
- Hands-on experience implementing and optimizing ERP systems, preferably Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (BC365), SAP, Oracle or equivalent.
- Experience leading organizational change and building high-performing operational teams.
