Director of Operations

Howmet Aerospace•Whitehall, MI

23d

About The Position

This position is responsible for driving manufacturing excellence in support of short-term and long-term objectives and strategies across 2 or more plants. Provides leadership, guidance and coaching in all aspects of the business to plant managers and their teams at these facilities to deliver business results. A critical function of this role is to lead the development of a manufacturing strategy to increase performance of the segment. This role is responsible to drive connections to the P&L to improve EBITDA. Will be responsible for the successful operation of multiple plants within the segment.

Requirements

BS Degree in Engineering, Business, or related fields; graduate degree strongly desired
Minimum 10 years’ experience in plant operational management is required.
Experience must include financial P&L, leading manufacturing excellence, customer management, and driving improvements through the implementation of lean manufacturing principles
Commercial experience creating/supporting customer relationships and expectations.
Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience in investment casting industry.

Responsibilities

Participates as a consultant, providing expertise and guidance while contributing substantively to implementation and solutions.
Leverages planned events and responds to organizational needs to create efficiencies that support strategies.
Supports enterprise strategy by understanding and prioritizing, assisting the enterprise to differentiate between critical and important.
Oversees Hoshin Planning within the plants and ensures that individual plant strategies support each other and the broader business needs.
Demonstrates a business-minded approach, owning the P&L with an entrepreneurial mindset and understanding internal and external customers and products.
Maintains an enterprise and systems perspective, understanding the role of the plants as part of a larger system.
Utilizes 360-degree communication and relationship building skills to message and contribute up, across, and down the chain of command.
Influences and empowers direct reports to interpret and execute throughout the plants, supporting local level decision making and accountability.
Acts as a talent advocate, coaching, mentoring, and creating experiences to develop talent from within the segment and overall enterprise.
Maintains high ethics and values in the workplace.
Sets and maintains a Quality First mindset and ensures effective quality systems are deployed and utilized.
Provides leadership for the Sub-Segment 5 year Hoshin Kanri process.
Leads monthly review of progress for all sites within the Sub-Segment and Sub-Segment roll up.
Ensures that our 'build a talent culture' is deployed and maturing within the Sub-Segment.
Maintains a Top Talent organization with appropriate Performance Management, Development, and Succession planning.
Reviews Organizational design and alignment to ensure culture is effectively supported.
Leads a Win Together culture across multiple sites to ensure a 'Howmet first' attitude is represented.
Establishes criteria to measure short- and long-term growth and 'external gross profit' and regularly evaluates results against these performance standards.
Works to enhance customer relationships by understanding technical challenges of existing products as well as the potential for new products.
Ensures products within all sites of the sub-segment align with costing of new and existing products and establishes a recommended pricing according to pricing matrix.
Reviews and directs the development of new market opportunities and requirements for existing products and new products, bringing these for approval to senior management at the appropriate time.
Develops an awareness for the customer’s product and service needs and maintains or enhances customer relations.
Establishes Advanced Manufacturing asset buildout that supports product enhancement needs as well as internal optimization requirements.
Ensures timing of output meets or exceeds necessary improvements.
Provides sub-segment (multi-site) leadership on issues related to asset management, such as inventory, accounts receivable, fixed assets, etc., to optimize asset utilization.
Takes action to correct unsatisfactory conditions that may arise in any phase of the sub-segment (multi-site) operation and directs necessary actions to accomplish forecasted objectives.
Directs the engineering, manufacturing, and operations of the sub-segment (multi-site) assuming lead responsibility for quality, delivery, cost, and continuous improvement.
Complies with all EHS rules required for the work environment.