Director of Operations Planning and Scheduling (5055)

SubCom•Eatontown, NJ

2h•Onsite

About The Position

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 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 The Director, Operations Planning is responsible for the overall planning and scheduling of Operational activities across SubCom. The scope of this planning role includes planning for all Manufacturing, Marine and support activities as they relate to the manufacturing, logistics, and installation of optical cable networks. In addition to the strategic planning aspects, this work includes overall production and marine installation forecasting, resource deployment and constraint allocations, and plan of work change decision-analysis. The output deliverables from this role feed into financial and operating budgets, resource and implementation strategies, financial and operating KPIs, client communication, and contract negotiations. While this role is not intended to directly interface regularly with customers, it may at times in a support role when requested. Data output from this body of work will feed into customer-facing discussions, strategic reviews, and internal reporting. The Director of Operations Planning consistently ensures that business planning and analysis are always conducted with integrity and that behavior aligns with SubCom policies, procedures, and core values.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science or Engineering Degree
Minimum 10 years of direct experience
Knowledge of undersea fiber-optic networks including high-level design overview, installation techniques, risks and potential mitigations as well as the following skills:
Developing others
Dealing with Ambiguity
Managerial Courage
Business Acumen
Comfort around higher management
Intellectual Horsepower
Ability to obtain a security clearance preferred

Responsibilities

Provide leadership for the development and on-going delivery of the following: The ability for the company to provide flexible solutions to customers while providing appropriate structure to:
Accelerate data-based decision-making
Ensure effective intra-company planning and scheduling communication
Maximize cable-laying deployment and system manufacturing output
Minimize controllable waste, and
Support continuous improvement
Aligns the inputs to Marine, Manufacturing, and support activity schedules allowing Project Management to produce and provide timely updates to the Project Plans of Work.
Advances Management of Change agenda items when identified and provides scenario alternative analysis for MOC meeting discussion.
Maintain an updated Fleet Master Schedule:
Provide on-going assessment of internal and external fleet capacity utilization and allocation.
Establish plans that incorporate both Project Management (customer) delivery requirements and internal resource utilization (cost) objectives.
maximize in-house fleet utilization
maximizes “Operational Status” of vessels, and
Maintain an integrated Pier Schedule to:
Minimize vessel and freighter load times
Coordinate cable inventory transfers between factory and forward depots, capturing freighter movement when utilized
Aligns port call duration to ensure asset health at expected maintenance intervals / repair needs and manages crewing changes to meet contractual obligations
Factory Master Schedule – provide on-going assessment of internal capacity utilization and allocation. Owner of manufacturing and system integration sequence.
Depot / Forward Deployment Center schedule – act as owner of integration scheduler and Tank Plan for Depot / FDC activities to meet project timeline deliverables.
Analytics, Alignment and Forecasting –
Deliver an operational forecast for the business segments ensuring client commitments and long-term resource utilization objectives are met
Utilize operational performance data to create planning and scheduling performance standards that are embedded within Project Plans of Work
Provide input to sales bids and financial plans, based upon operating performance data