Senior Director of Operations
About The Position
The Senior Director of Operations will be responsible for leading the 4 pillars of our Everett Operations organization: Production, Service & Calibration, Materials & Planning, and DFx (Design for Manufacturing) & Engineering. This role will drive point-of-impact results while ensuring the safety of our associates, the quality of our products and services, and on-time delivery at the minimum investment in cost and inventory. The position will utilize Gemba techniques to foster and extend our FBS (Fortive Business System) and Lean Culture. Responsibilities include providing leadership for planning and scheduling to support accurate and timely receipts, shipments, and overall material management, and coordinating New Product Introduction (NPI) and product transitions from engineering to manufacturing to ensure post-launch success through process and metrics leadership. The role also involves setting and leading capital, fixed, and variable budgets for the manufacturing site, providing end-of-month variance reporting and analysis, absorption accounting analysis and forecasting, and corrective actions as required. Collaboration with HR for organization and talent development, talent risk management, and succession planning is key. The Senior Director will lead daily, weekly, and monthly reviews to ensure improvement projects and key performance indicators stay on track, executing through robust Daily Management/Visual Management and Operational Review cadences to ensure the site meets its customer and business commitments. Additionally, the role requires close collaboration with global sales and product organizations to align on customer expectations, delivery timelines, and revenue goals, while driving sustained value creation through effective communication, expectation setting, and organizational capability building. The goal is to enhance customer value and operational efficiency by developing solutions that promote shipment linearity within the Operations and Service teams.
Requirements
- 10+ yrs. of progressive operations and cross functional management
- Cross functional business management experience in manufacturing engineering, Service & production operations, continuous improvement, and other support functions
- Proven track record in controlling costs to budget
- Proven track record delivering predictive results for customers
- Lean Manufacturing demonstrated knowledge and results
- Proficient in digital literacy (Microsoft Office products: Project, Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Experience successfully implementing lean manufacturing and Fortive Business System processes within depth knowledge of the methodology (or similar)
- Experience leading a service organization
- Experience developing engineering talent
- Excellent communication skills and proven ability to motivate various levels of organization
- Must be able to travel up to 15% of the time
Nice To Haves
- Data analysis skills
- Experience leading >$70M revenue business
Responsibilities
- Leading the 4 pillars of our Everett Operations organization: Production, Service & Calibration, Materials & Planning, and DFx (Design for Manufacturing) & Engineering.
- Drive point of impact results while ensuring safety of our associates, quality of our products and services, and on-time delivery at the minimum investment in cost and inventory.
- Utilize Gemba techniques to foster and extend our FBS (Fortive Business System) and Lean Culture.
- Provide leadership for planning and scheduling to support accurate and timely receipts, shipments, and overall material management.
- Coordinate New Product Introduction (NPI) and product transitions from engineering to manufacturing to ensure post launch success through process and metrics leadership.
- Set and lead capital, fixed and variable budgets for manufacturing site, providing end-of-month variance reporting and analysis, absorption accounting analysis and forecasting, and corrective actions as required.
- Collaborate with HR for organization and talent development, talent risk management, and succession planning.
- Lead daily, weekly, and monthly reviews to ensure improvement projects and key performance indicators stay on track. Execution through robust Daily Management/Visual Management and Operational Review cadences to ensure the site meets its customer and business commitments.
- Collaborate closely with the global sales and product organizations to align on customer expectations, delivery timelines, and revenue goals, while driving sustained value creation through effective communication, expectation setting, and organizational capability building.
- Enhance customer value and operational efficiency by developing solutions that promote shipment linearity within the Operations and Service teams.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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