Director of Operations

Overview

Albany Engineered Composites (AEC) designs, develops, and manufactures advanced composite components to help our customers push the frontiers of innovation. Our core strength is our ability to produce highly tailored, complex composite components. With our unique blend of products – including 3D woven structures, traditional and non-traditional 2D composite structures, and discrete through thickness reinforcement technologies – AEC is able to produce composite components and products which meet performance and cost specifications often beyond the reach of metallic or conventional laminated composites.

Job Purpose:

The Director of Operations will have 10+ years of demonstrated leadership experience in a world class manufacturing environment including a regulated industry. A Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or operations science is required and a Master’s Degree is a plus. The role has facility-level leadership responsibility to bring materials management / supply chain, engineering, program leadership, quality, manufacturing, customer support, human resources and administrative functions together as a team in a single plant environment with a combination of dotted line and straight line reporting relationships.

The Director of Operations will have accountability for safety, quality, cost, delivery, and responsiveness performance, continuous improvement performance, employee engagement and teamwork of the facilities they manage and will be responsible for developing the facility leadership team.

In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following values:
Safety, Fact Based, Accountable, Respectful, Persistence and Ethical. Put Safety first at all times, never compromise on safety for the obtainment of other objectives. Responsible for health and safety of themselves and coworkers.

• Responsible for the overall direction of the facility, and accountable for achieving EBITDA growth targets and annual operating plan objectives.
• Develop, interpret and implement the 1 to 3 year vision for Continuous Improvement, Capital investments, manpower planning in this facility within the context of the Albany Production System and divisional level CI leadership guidance. Establish a culture of Continuous Improvement including use of all appropriate tools such as standard work for shop floor and leaders, visual factory, value stream implementations, moonshine shop availability, 5 / 6S implementation with audits, hoshin planning, continuous (but controlled and measurable) kaizen activities and an overarching management system implementation.
• Grow the distributed ownership and content of the Quality System within the context of the overall AEC Quality System. Be able to lead agency and registrar audits if necessary. Foster a culture of compliance to the quality system.
• Lead the development and execution of annual facility operating plans including the effective communication and cascading of objectives.
• Identify capital equipment / building needs that correspond with business growth in advance of the need to maximize customer confidence, employee productivity and sales / EBITDA growth.
• Grow and deepen the use of SAP within the facility. Establish super users, review and improve standards regularly, drive accuracy and system use for the purpose of monitoring performance without offline systems needs except for visual factory and to appropriately and effectively plan and implement facility capability / capacity needs to support growth strategies and near term production needs.
• Develop a positive relationship with all facility customers based upon operational excellence and consistent, dependable execution. Work with program development and customer support within the facility to improve customer satisfaction through better overall execution tied to agreed-to KPIs.
• Work collaboratively with GM, and other Site Operations and the divisional level Operations Leadership Team to successfully and seamlessly deliver to customers an integrated set of services and products. Incumbent is a member of AEC Operations Leadership Team.
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