Operations Manager, Production Planning & Execution
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About The Position
The L3Harris Imaging Division in Wilmington, MA is an industry leader in the design and production of space-based optical telescopes for small satellites. This business has produced and continues to produce optical systems for many customers in both the commercial and military markets, as well as NASA. One such NASA program supported by this business was New Horizons. Imaging Division Wilmington designed and built the telescope which snapped the first close-up pictures of Pluto. The Operations Organization is looking for a talented, strategic, and transformational leader to lead an evolution of the Production Planning and Execution department. This business has doubled in revenue in the last 2 years and is looking to both scale and transform the organization to optimize delivery to both internal and external customers’ needs. This position will lead a growing team of Production Planning and Execution program leads (current team is 4-5) on both development and production programs. This position will be required to revolutionize the department by doing the following things: Developing a strategic transformation plan, including developing and establishing a robust production planning process, to optimize value creation for our internal programs, lead the execution of this plan, develop, maintain, and scale metrics that measure success and failure to customers’ needs, perform ad hoc root cause analysis on missed metrics or process escapes, develop and implement corrective and preventative actions, balance the tactical and strategic demands to meet both the immediate programmatic needs with longer-term transformational and improvement projects, create strong internal supplier relationships, work together with these internal suppliers to improve delivery to processes, coordinate effectively with internal customers and suppliers to drive improvement within the organization, effectively expand the ERP system to drive more automation within the operation, and effectively lead in a matrixed environment with several different customers.
