Director of Operations

Vista Outdoors • Anoka, MN

351d • $137,400 - $192,300

About The Position

Seeking a Director of Operations to lead all manufacturing departments at our Anoka, Minnesota location. This position ensures the required supervision, manpower, support, materials and ancillary items needed to operate safely, effectively and productively at each of these locations and to maintain the facilities and grounds to ensure that this can be accomplished within the framework of production demands, safety requirements, profitability parameter and governmental regulations. This position reports to the VP of Operations and is based out of our Anoka, Minnesota office.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required - or equivalent experience
• 10+ years related experience in operations and production-related areas
• Demonstrated experience in an operations management role.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing operations-related initiatives, preferably in the consumer products or sporting goods industry.
• Demonstrated history of achievement in a consumer-driven, manufacturing operations environment.
• Ability to make decisions and empower change in a results-oriented environment
• Experience in ammunition manufacturing a plus

Responsibilities

• Provide guidance and leadership to the manufacturing and support departments located at the Anoka facility.
• Ensure a high level of productivity and quality through appropriate use of capital spending, tool, and equipment improvements.
• Constantly look for ways to reduce risk to personnel and facilities in manufacturing, handling and storage processes through process improvement, equipment and tooling improvement and periodic maintenance.
• Drive the use of Continuous Improvement at all levels of the organization.
• Support the corporate S&OP planning process to staff the operations to ensure on-time delivery of products.
• Direct the Environmental and Safety Department to monitor and control activities to ensure a safe working environment at the Anoka facility.
• Manage spending to stay within budget.
• Communicate with manager to ensure that all matters are given the proper level of importance, ensuring that all possible support is available as needed and eliminate situations where the leadership is uninformed.
• Facilitate accurate information flow to the employees to keep assigned personnel knowledgeable about current operations, the company policies, and procedures and to provide a sense of ownership and team work to maintain good morale.
• Production/Operations management to ensure business in the future by satisfying customers in the present.
• Direct product flow, production rates, and product mixes to best meet customer demands while keeping inventories in line with plans.
• Foster cross-location collaboration and problem solving.
• Drive lean manufacturing through facilitation of tier meetings.
• Utilize the lean manufacturing principles to establish, develop, change, and improve the culture.
• Coach subordinates to see to it that the process runs as designed and improve it.
• Ensure succession planning is completed for each location/operation.

Benefits

• medical and dental
• vision
• disability and life insurance
• 401K
• PTO
• tuition reimbursement
• gear discounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Industry: Miscellaneous Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees