Regional Operations Leader

About the role

Avery Dennison is seeking a Regional Operations Leader to join the Taylor Adhesives team in Dalton, GA with leadership for additional manufacturing sites including (Fontana CA).

Responsibilities

• Develop, improve or maintain an effective system of metrics, scorecards, governance and reviews to assure strategies and projects are aligned with business needs.
• Drive an engaged learning organization that is capable of creating, acquiring, transferring and applying valuable knowledge to meet and exceed business goals.
• Facilitate robust voice of customer to continuously evaluate and improve internal business processes.
• Create a vision and operating strategy (OGSM – Objectives, Goals, Strategies and Measures) and ensure the effective execution to achieve or exceed quality, service, cost, safety, inventory and bottom-line results.
• Leverage a demonstrated ability to collaborate across boundaries to solve difficult problems.
• Be a visible leader capable of engaging team members at all levels of the organization.
• Foster a culture where safety is a core value in daily operation and strive towards an accident-free workplace. Support the processes and practices to build on the VPP certification and ensure site compliance with legal, legislative and corporate safety requirements.
• Ensure accuracy and completion of capital planning and budgeting.
• Drive lean management and process discipline throughout front-end and manufacturing areas by personally championing Enterprise Lean Sigma (ELS).
• Model and promote the Corporation’s Code of Business Ethics and Values.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent
• 8+ years solid business experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Solid understanding and experience with ISO Quality System.
• General business knowledge within the Adhesives and Flooring Industry.
• Experience working in a Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing environment.
• Show success in operations leadership, improvement process and proven ability to understand and integrate consumer needs, marketing strategies and broader business challenges.
• Must be dynamic, proactive, high-reaching, assert a "can do" attitude, strength of character, tenacity and credibility and be able to build and respect strong working relationships with all levels of the business.
• Ability to work comfortably within a fast-paced and matrixed organization, built around team concepts and structures and the ability to deal with constantly changing internal and external environments.
• Strong organizational skills in strategy, communication at all levels and execution. Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Show change agent with strong and clear communication skills. Must be comfortable and effective in both public/broad forums and in one on one coaching situations.
• Balance of strategic and tactical thinking skills. Skilled in analyzing and drawing information for long-term strategic change and improvement for the site.
• A strong operational leadership background which includes - a solid understanding of modern manufacturing, material flow and improvement strategies (e.g. kaizen, six sigma, synchronous flow, make to order, cellular, etc.) and the ability to integrate those into the operation.
• Strong understanding of financial systems and the key drivers within the manufacturing environment.
• Excellent teamwork, leadership, relationship building, mentoring, training and project management experience and skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent
• 8+ years solid business experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Solid understanding and experience with ISO Quality System.
• General business knowledge within the Adhesives and Flooring Industry.
• Experience working in a Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing environment.
• Show success in operations leadership, improvement process and proven ability to understand and integrate consumer needs, marketing strategies and broader business challenges.