Vice President, Operations

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Were committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

If you like wild growth and working with happy enthusiastic over-achievers youll 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 bachelors or masters 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.