PEPI: Senior Associate, Operations & Manufacturing (OPEN TO ALL U.S. LOCATIONS)
About the role
A&M is a global consulting firm focusing on serving middle market and large cap private equity firms. Our team specializes in manufacturing and distribution operations, helping clients improve their portfolio companies' operating results.
Responsibilities
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of a target’s manufacturing and distribution operations.
- Evaluate the maintainability and operability of production facilities.
- Review current and historical data to understand efficiency & capacity, including equipment conditions, maintenance logs, spare parts, and detailed production numbers.
- Provide shop floor insights by talking with employees and customers and reviewing all available data.
- Identify potential cost improvement opportunities through lean improvements, outsourcing or consolidation of facilities.
- Develop transformation plans to drive proposed changes and identify key risks and mitigation strategies.
- Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional experience, with a minimum of 4 years specializing in manufacturing and/or distribution functions.
- Deep functional expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Supply Chain Operations
- Manufacturing Operations, SI&OP
- Footprint optimization, plant consolidation and product line transfer
- Manufacturing strategy, CapEx planning, Manufacturing 4.0/IIoT
- Lever, Six Sigma, TOC and Value Engineering
- Excellent fact-gathering and analytical skills, including business process mapping and quantitative analysis.
- Specific experience designing and leading the execution of internally focused and externally focused change/communications strategy.
- Previous strategy and change management experience.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
Benefits
The salary range is $125,000--$170,000 annually, dependent on several variables including but not limited to education, experience, skills, and geography. In addition, A&M offers a discretionary bonus program based on a number of factors, including individual and firm performance.
Pay
The salary range is $125,000--$170,000 annually, dependent on several variables including but not limited to education, experience, skills, and geography.
Schedule
Full-time positions and part-time positions are offered. Regular employees working 30 or more hours per week are entitled to participate in A&M’s fringe benefits, including healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD&D, and disability coverages, as well as a 401(k)-retirement plan. Employees are also eligible for paid time off including vacation, personal days, seventy-two (72) hours of sick time (prorated for part time employees), ten federal holidays, one floating holiday, and parental leave.