The Director of Operations oversees all aspects of operations and provides leadership to the plant managers across multiple sites in a campus environment. Overall responsibility for Production, Maintenance, Personnel Scheduling, and Safety, as well as associated responsibilities in Warehouse Operations, Quality Assurance, Human Resources, Commercialization and other related areas. The Director of Operations is also responsible for establishing the campus culture, servicing business needs, and the 3-year masterplan that delivers all KPIs of Safety, Quality, Customer Service and Cost control.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Direct and oversee ongoing performance and efficiency of all plant functions through the establishment and monitoring of KPI’s that seek to meet and/or exceed corporate objectives.
• Develop and mentor plant teams, future leaders, and succession planning by partnering with plant managers and human resources.
• Responsible for strategy development based on customer support, OpEx, return on capital, transformational goals, increasing capacity and throughput and cost discipline.
• Formulates and implements manufacturing programs to maintain and improve the competitive position and profitability of the operations. Set structure and discipline in daily management and utilizing data and KPI’s to drive priorities and decisions.
• Sets Fiscal Year and 90-day priorities for the plants.
• 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 TPM 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 lowering manufacturing costs.
• Works closely with sales and finance teams to ensure seamless start-ups of new products on-time and at optimized costs.
• Role models ownership, collaboration, and disciplined execution.
• Provides support and guidance in the management of product quality and ensures compliance with quality and sanitation policies, procedures, and systems to include HACCP, GMPs and the management and reduction of consumer complaints.
• Ensures all performance issues are addressed in a timely manner and all employees adhere to company policies and procedures on an ongoing basis.
• Ensure compliance with all FDA, OSHA, local regulatory agencies and auditing requirements.
• Other duties as assigned

Education and/or Experience :

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or manufacturing or related field of study.
• Experience with plant transformation including organizational design, facility enhancement and upskilling and development of the workforce. Track record of delivering significant business KPI goals in turnaround opportunities.
• Proven leadership skills to put employees first, ability to remove barriers and promote succession planning
• Directly supervise a team of leaders who supervise leaders.
• Able to simply and effectively communicate complex issues up, down and across the organization.
• High degree of financial acumen is required with the ability to perform plant-level financial analysis.
• Self-motivated with excellent organizational skills and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Computer skills including MS Office programs such as Outlook, Word, Excel PowerPoint.
• Strong analytical / problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Ability to empower, motivate and inspire staff.
• Ability to lead change and execute strategic decisions.

Preferred:

• MBA preferred, but not required
• TPM, TQM, IWS, Six Sigma, or Lean Manufacturing experience
• Organizational Performance Design capability