Vice President, Operations

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! This Operations Leader will report transparently and proactively to senior executive management, engage collaboratively with internal peers, lead the workforce appropriately and assertively, deal effectively with suppliers, and customers. This leader should put in place appropriate organizational structures and processes to ensure systematic and efficient production, a mindset of kaizen methods and tools for continuous improvement, and appropriate enterprise risk management and business continuity planning. KEY RESPONSIBILITES: • Instill a Zero-Defect Quality culture to maximize yields and throughput, and ongoing reduction of scrap, defects, and yield excursions • Collaborate with the research and development team to improve the yield, speed, manufacturability and cost of new products • Alignment with engineering and demand planning functions to ensure production output expectations are met • Work with the other Operations sites or BU, to optimize and standardize best practices for safety, quality, output and cost • Maximizing on time delivery of customer requests • Build and retain a high-functioning team • Maintain a safe and environmentally compliant workplace in line with corporate policy and regulations KEY KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, and ABILITIES: • Strong technical ability with experience in yield improvements and experience working with the Assembly/reliability groups to ensure overall product health. • Strong operational management skills with the ability to establish plans and forecast and to meet commitments. • Proven ability to attract high-caliber individuals, and build a strong team, with skills and ability to proactively develop the organization to meet future requirements. • Ability to work cross functionally with business leadership, supply chain planning, and other operations sites and BU, to execute operationally and to drive forward thinking operations strategy • Passion for excellence, in the field of manufacturing, guided by a desire for continuous improvement • Ability to work under pressure, in a time-sensitive, fast-paced environment is required • Hands-on skills to lead and manage the business, ability to conceptualize and drive the “big picture” while being able to dive down into the details to drive improvement and fix problems • A strong people manager that can create a high engagement workplace for the operations team MINIMUM EXPERIENCE / REQUIREMENTS: • A minimum of 10 years’ experience of leading operations/engineering and at least 15 years of experience in a high technology manufacturing company environment • Successful experience within a medium-volume high-mix production environment • An accomplished leader, able to build high performance teams, possessing excellent influencing and communication skills (both internally and externally) and demonstrating organizational awareness • Team-oriented individual with ethics and integrity. • A bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field is required LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES / CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS: • Technical Leadership: Experience in systematic problem solving and fundamental understanding. • Passionate Leadership: Create a vision, motivate the team and to effectively build linkages with large customers, sales, and other groups; creates milestones and plans to rally support behind the vision. • Business and Financial Acumen –ability to comprehend and effectively navigate the financial aspects of an organization, making informed decisions to drive its success • Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans. • Organizational Agility: Knowledgeable about how organizations work; drive diversity and inclusion, know how to get things done both through formal channels and informal networks; understands the cultures of organizations • Inspiring Leadership and Global Experience - ability to leverage global and cross-cultural insights and communication to motivate diverse teams towards shared goals • Advanced Communication – ability to convey complex ideas clearly, adapt messages to diverse audiences, and facilitate meaningful dialogue among internal / external stakeholders We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.