Director of Operations

Star Cases LLC dba ZERO Manufacturing•North Salt Lake, UT

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About The Position

We need you!!!!!! Do you have over 15 years of senior management experience? Have you worked for at least 15 years in a manufacturing environment driving results, processes improvements while reducing cost and spending and maintaining Safety and Quality. Do you have experience mentoring and/or training managers and supervisors to improve the plant’s overall performance? Do you have experience in Lean Manufacturing with proven projects? Have you worked with safety, quality, planning, engineering, maintenance, purchasing and HR in a manufacturing environment? Include the following duties and responsibilities. Other duties may be assigned. Ensure that all employees are working safely and following all safety rules. Ensure and/or improve product quality standards. Ensure compliance and certification with AS9100 Standards Direct multiple departments: Production, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Scheduling and Safety. Promote On Time Delivery (OTD) to our customers. By addressing efficiency, productivity process constraints and bottlenecks and providing process improvements to the current process. Understand capacity capabilities and constraints Monitoring the production processes and ensuring that they are adequate to meet the production schedule. Scrap reduction and rework Mentor, develop and lead management team, direct and indirect reports. Propose the annual budget and seek efficiency improvements to generate cost-saving opportunities.

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
A proven history of leading and implementing process improvements to promote increases in efficiency and productivity in a MANUFACTURING ENVIRONEMENT
Demonstrated ability to determine root cause, implement action items and develop a conclusion.
Hands-on manager willing to learn and become an expert in the details of the processes.
Demonstrated leadership to promote several departments.
Ability to motivate and engage employees to promote process improvements.
Ability to deal with problems, whether it’s personnel and/or operational and the ability to provide guidance or direction to resolve the issue.
Experienced in working with labor intensive, custom manufacturing processes.
Analytical minded and attention to detail
Lean manufacturing and/or understanding with demonstrated experience: Certified Lean Six Sigma is a plus
Must be proficient in Excel: pivot tables, spreadsheets, charts, and other Microsoft tools
Experience working in a multi-work center manufacturing plant
Bachelor’s degree or at least 10 years of proven upper management experience, (supervisor or above),
Great verbal and written communication skills
Program management is a plus
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent work experience
The employee is regularly required to sit for a long period of time.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
This job requires the ability to handle numerous projects simultaneously.
Requires the ability to be an effective communicator and to work well with others to achieve overall established goals.
Requires the ability to make effective decisions based on facts and intuition.
Safety glasses and other required PPE when in the production areas.

Nice To Haves

Special Note: This is a multi-work center manufacturing plant, not a typical assembly line plant, knowledge of aluminum, paint process, anodize, hydraulic presses, draw tooling, welding, quality standards for the government and the aerospace industry is a huge plus.
Lean manufacturing and/or understanding with demonstrated experience: Certified Lean Six Sigma is a plus
Program management is a plus

Responsibilities

Ensure that all employees are working safely and following all safety rules.
Ensure and/or improve product quality standards.
Ensure compliance and certification with AS9100 Standards
Direct multiple departments: Production, Maintenance, Supply Chain, Scheduling and Safety.
Promote On Time Delivery (OTD) to our customers. By addressing efficiency, productivity process constraints and bottlenecks and providing process improvements to the current process.
Understand capacity capabilities and constraints
Monitoring the production processes and ensuring that they are adequate to meet the production schedule.
Scrap reduction and rework
Mentor, develop and lead management team, direct and indirect reports.
Propose the annual budget and seek efficiency improvements to generate cost-saving opportunities.