Regional Operations Leader - Dalton, GA

About the role

The Regional Operations Leader will lead the Taylor Adhesives team in Dalton, GA, and oversee additional manufacturing sites. This role requires developing, improving, or maintaining an effective system of metrics, scorecards, governance, and reviews to align strategies and projects with business needs.

Responsibilities

• Attract, manage, develop, and retain a staff of change agents to deliver results in alignment with Avery Dennison's leadership principles.
• Drive an engaged learning organization capable of creating, acquiring, transferring, and applying valuable knowledge to meet and exceed business goals.
• Facilitate robust voice of customer evaluations to continuously improve internal business processes.
• Create a vision and operating strategy (OGSM) and ensure its effective execution to achieve or exceed quality, service, cost, safety, inventory, and bottom-line results.
• Leverage collaboration across boundaries to solve complex 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 and strive towards an accident-free workplace.
• Support processes and practices to build on 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 Avery Dennison's Code of Business Ethics and Values.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
• 8+ years solid business experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience in leading and handling individuals and teams.
• 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 processes, and ability to understand and integrate consumer needs, marketing strategies, and broader business challenges.

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

• Dynamic, proactive, high-reaching, assertive "can do" attitude, strength of character, tenacity, and credibility.
• Build and respect strong working relationships with all levels of the business.
• Comfortable and effective in both public/broad forums and in one-on-one coaching situations.
• Balanced strategic and tactical thinking skills, analyzing and drawing information for long-term strategic change and improvement for the site.
• A strong operational leadership background including 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 these into the operation.
• Strong understanding of financial systems and key drivers within the manufacturing environment.
• Excellent teamwork, leadership, relationship building, mentoring, training, and project management experience and skills.