Director, Operations Resiliency, Capacity Growth Office, Hybrid role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the resiliency strategy for all new factory builds and factory expansions, ensuring facilities are designed for disaster recovery, business continuity, operational robustness, agility, and future scalability.
• Drive the integration of resiliency requirements into architectural, engineering, and construction plans, including utilities, automation, technology infrastructure, environmental controls, and redundancy systems.
• Carry out risk assessments and lead mitigation plans (e.g., seismic, climate, supply, utility, infrastructure, equipment, cloud, cyber-physical systems) to ensure site selection and design decisions reduce exposure to operational disruption.
• Define and implement the smart factory strategy, including the technical roadmap for architecture and infrastructure, ensuring alignment with enterprise growth and operational objectives.
• Design and deploy advanced digital solutions to optimize factory planning, construction, and operations, integrating digital engineering, digital twin, predictive analytics, and smart factory technologies.
• Design and deploy support systems to sustain high levels of uptime and performance for Manufacturing & Supply Chain Applications, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), automation and robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, digital twin technology, and smart supply chain systems to enhance production efficiency and enable real-time decision-making.
• Collaborate with executive leaders across digital, cyber security, engineering, manufacturing/operations, supply chain, quality, and enterprise services to transform traditional manufacturing processes into state-of-the-art, digitally enabled production ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum of 14 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 12 years' experience.
• Experience leading and managing multiple functional teams.
• Experience in leading Factory transformation and modernization initiatives from a Digital Technology perspective.
• Experience in developing digital technology (IT) solutions/Support Models for improving Smart Factory environments in areas such as advanced automation, digital visualization, real time monitoring, and other areas for improving stability, agility and scalability.
• The ability to obtain a US DoD Top Secret Security Clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge in aerospace, defense, automotive, electronics, warehouse/logistics fulfillment, or advanced industrial operations and manufacturing.
• Knowledge of digital thread, digital twin, and model-based engineering.
• Experience in developing critical support models for large-scale automation or factory modernization programs employing automation and robotics, IIOT, Data Analytics and visualization, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) while ensuring connected and safeguarded systems holding sensitive manufacturing data are safeguarded and cyber threats are mitigated.
• Experience with process optimization, supply chain management to integrate digital tools and experience with simulation and modeling tools to test scenarios and optimize processes.
• Financial accountability and management of a large multimillion dollar annual operating budget, estimating, forecasting and managing critical and strategic investments for the business unit.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise transformation across multiple manufacturing sites.
• Experience integrating IT and operational technology (OT).
• Experience delivering regular executive-level briefings and effective communication across all levels of the organization.