Sr. Director Operations
Houston, TX
Full Time
Experienced
The Sr. Director of Operations is a key leadership role responsible for overseeing and optimizing the overall operations of manufacturing plants. This individual will drive operational excellence through the formulation and implementation of strategic manufacturing programs aimed at enhancing productivity, cost efficiency, safety, quality, and employee engagement. The Sr. Director will ensure the execution of continuous improvement initiatives and work cross-functionally to maintain the company’s competitive edge, financial performance, and operational effectiveness.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Formulate and execute manufacturing programs to maintain and improve the competitive position and profitability of operations.
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of manufacturing plants to ensure safety, quality, cost, efficiency and people standards are consistently met.
- Promote and encourage the development of people to ensure leadership continuity.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, positive engagement and empowerment of employees.
- Develop and execute on continues improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives with focus on on-time delivery, labor productivity, cost reduction and overall margin improvement.
- Drives a strong and healthy safety culture that is compliant with regulations and engages employees to effectively decrease injury rate.
- Ensure all locations comply with environmental, health and safety regulations.
- Develop, monitor, and report on operating costs relative to budget. Communicate circumstances that may cause significant budget overruns and identify ways to lesson impact on overall budget.
- Rapidly communicate to Vice President of Operations any significant challenges or failures that may pose a risk to the business.
- Leads the development and implementation of strategies that maximize operational effectiveness/performance while partnering with other divisions to develop actionable plans to improve overall operational effectiveness.
- Develop and implement strategies to drive continuous improvement in safety, productivity, product quality, customer service, quality of work life, and lowers manufacturing costs.
- Responsible for the financial results of plant operations by preparing annual manufacturing budget, analyzing costs of plant improvements and leading cost improvement initiatives.
- Provide leadership to the product planning and materials activities of the locations to ensure that the inventory levels are efficient to maximize cashflow while minimizing cost.
- Indirect leadership of the Quality Assurance activities of the location to ensure product integrity while maintaining Good Manufacturing Practices and eliminating foreign material.
- Ensures site compliance with regulatory agencies.
- Verifies ESG and Safety standards are maintained at all times and take action and/or follow-up when deficiencies are noted.
- Provide strategic guidance to the organizations through leadership of strategic planning sessions.
- Participates in new product development and planning by researching the cost and ability to produce the product.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Food Science, or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in a production facility, with at least 5 years in a leadership role, in manufacturing. Managing multiple sites experience is a plus.
- Experience with SAP is preferred.
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