Director, Manufacturing

About the role

The Director, Manufacturing is responsible for leading site server, rack assembly day-to-day operations, and End of line operations, ensuring that production delivery, quality, and cost metrics are met or exceeded. The Director, Manufacturing will focus on employee safety, productivity, quality, and training, typically supervising a team of 3+ managers, 6+ Supervisors, 20+ leads and 200+ production Talents.

Responsibilities

• Provide Work Direction to the Extended Team
  • Communicate overall priorities for the extended team to Team Leads based on:
    • Ship date (day/week/month)
    • Quantity of units
    • Aged units
    • Capacity and its utilization
    • Efficiency
    • Quality issues from Assembly and/or vendors
    • Safety & 7S’s in place
    • Lean tools
    • Problem-solving tools and Action plan (PDCA)
• Personnel Supervision
  • Attendance / OT / PTO Execution
  • Training Execution
  • Staffing Execution
  • Workload Balance
  • Performance feedback to Managers
• Issue Resolution
  • Manage/escalate issues impacting the extended team and communicate to:
    • Peer Manager(s)
    • Manager
    • Customer PM(s)
    • NPI PM(s)
• Process Improvement / 7S Leadership
  • Work with extended team to identify and execute process/tool improvements:
    • Manufacturing Engineering / Development Engineering
    • Maintenance Team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, related discipline, and/or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience
• 15+ years of experience in high complexity technology manufacturing environment with experience in project management, engineering, quality, manufacturing, and new product introduction.
• 10+ years of leading and mentoring technical and non-technical teams.
• Lean manufacturing hands-on experience
• Possess a prominent level of integrity and strong work ethic.
• Ability