Operations Manager

About the role

Hexcel Burlington fosters a strong plant culture centered on safety, inclusion, and teamwork to deliver consistent results. We are seeking an Operations Manager who thrives in a manufacturing environment and leads through collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a safe, clean, organized and secure work environment.
• Actively supports and interacts monthly and/or plant refresher safety training using available resources and prescribed goals to determine and subsequently help eliminate actual and potential safety issues, unsafe acts and/or conditions to preclude accidents, to keep Hexcel employees safe, and to achieve the Department/Plant and/or corporate safety goals and objectives.
• Strong focus on behavior-based safety through sound leadership, adherence to observation programs and proactive balanced real-time feedback and actions.
• Develop processes to fully meet customer requirements, giving cost, quality, delivery, safety and equal moral consideration.
• Solves problems using cross-functional teams and utilizing continuous improvement techniques (LEAN and Six Sigma tools).
• Effectively monitors, manages, reports, and communicates plant capacity including both human and physical resources.
• Identifies any capital needs to support operational objectives in the short-, medium-, and long-term time horizons.
• Establishes Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time bound (SMART) objectives, and monitor progress through effective follow-through, linking to Plant and Strategic Objectives.
• Manages Business Objectives to meet strategic plans.
• Prepares and communicates monthly and quarterly production targets including deliveries and lates on an ongoing basis.
• Inspires, develops and retains subordinates to create a strong succession plan and pool of professional talent.
• Work with production personnel daily with an emphasis on strong, positive employee engagement.
• Lead Operations role in proactive participation in customer and industrial audits (e.g. AS9100, Nadcap, ISO etc.) to ensure compliance.
• Always operate in compliance with the Hexcel Burlington Quality System and Quality Policy.
• Comply with Hexcel policies, procedures, and Code of Business Conduct.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Aerospace, Mechanical, or Engineering from a 4-year college or university.
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible Operations Management or related experience in the Aerospace industry.
• MBA degree a plus.
• Previous supervisory experience and job shop experience required.
• Demonstrated logistics, materials, and supply chain experience preferred.
• Demonstrated lean implementation success.
• Must possess strong communication, interpersonal and analytical skills and be able to work effectively across all areas of the business.
• Computer literacy includes proficiency in use of ERP / MES / Power BI and the full Microsoft Office Suite of Products to include strong data analytics using Excel Macros.