Director of Operations - Manufacturing (Global & Multi-site)

Our client is a global B2B Technology & Industrial products company seeking a strong Director of Operations for their fast growing global footprint in the Americas, Asia and Europe.

• Ensure plant operations meet all company and government safety and environmental rules and regulations.


• Instills a plant safety culture to drive world-class occupational and process safety performance.


• Establish strategic goals for manufacturing and technical center while aligning operational activities with Company goals and values.


• Build collaborative relationships and effectively interact with business, senior leaders and stakeholders.


• Drives plant productivity and efficiency by monitoring processes and leveraging most effective technologies across the regions.


• Establish strategy for plants to ensure that delivery of manufactured products meet safety, quality, cost and on-time delivery goals in support of associated business objectives.


• Create metrics and evaluate the efficiency of business procedures according to organizational objectives and apply improvements by analyzing and interpreting data and metrics of various disciplines.


• Work with plant managers to develop and adjust operation budgets to promote profitability, monitor revenue margins and ensure Company goals areachieved or exceeded.


• Responsible for staff management and development including assigning and directing work, appraising performance, hiring, training and retention, disciplining, addressing complaints and resolving problems.


• Cooperates and effectively communicates with business units to meet Company objectives.


• Leads change management activities for area of responsibility.


• Coach, mentor and develop the team by fostering an environment of continuous learning, and encouraging global collaboration in a geographically and culturally dispersed organization.


• Provides process technology subject matter expertise to operations team.


• Supports and champions any process safety programs, policies and procedures.


• Supports sustainability initiatives.

Knowledge / Experience / Skills Required

• Demonstrated ability to build on new data-led culture in operations facility, and be an effective driver of change.


• Degree in a relevant discipline


• Desired: a graduate degree (M.S. Eng., or MBA).


• Ten years of managerial experience with budgetary responsibility in the consumer/electro-mechanical industry preferred.


• Ideally from a competitive/lean manufacturing environment, with a strong focus on operations, lean and CI.


• Knowledge of current Health, Safety, and Environmental legislation and standards.


• A keen focus on regulatory compliance a plus.


• Proven management experience in process plant.


• Worked in an environment of leading organization capabilities. In other words able to get it done with limited resources (people and financials).


• Demonstrated ability to create and implement innovative solutions to complex problems running a single train / multi-product operating facility.


• Demonstrated ability to lead, direct and positively motivate others.


• Strong ability to identify, develop and encourage talent.


• Demonstrated results in process improvement and experience in reliability best practices and programs


• Proven ability to measure performance and deliver against objectives.


• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to influence all levels of the organization.


• Evidence of ongoing training/development at a senior level to current best practice.