Overview:
Do you have a background in operational management and site leadership, with proven success leading organizations to profitability? We have an Operations Leader role with one of the leading manufacturing companies in Ithaca that is poised for strategic growth in 2025. If you've got a background in Six Sigma processes, ISO audits, process improvement, and developing teams, apply today!
Job Description:
- Responsible for production and supply chain functions to deliver high quality products while maintaining a low cost to manufacture.
- Partner with HR in recruitment efforts and retain talent at the Ithaca site though employee development.
- Collaborate with C suite and leaders to drive profitable growth at the Ithaca facility
- Provide regular reporting monthly, quarterly, and annually pertaining to delivery, cost, quality, and working capital of the Ithaca site. Will make sure that departments are hitting their budgetary goals.
- Establish metrics to clearly define and measure productivity for each department
- Work with leadership team to help with integration between multiple facilities, and collaborate on new products and ways to improve operations.
- Lead Lean Manufacturing principles and develop effective methods to measure and track progress pertaining to improving yield, uptime, and cycle time.
- Assist with quality audits to make sure company is following ISO standards
- Proven success scaling businesses to profitability
- Familiarity with ISO certification processes and requirements
- Strong executive presence, clear communicator, able to lead through influence
- Previous experience within the optical industry including fabrication, testing, and coating highly preferred
- Background in Kaizen event planning, root cause analysis, manufacturing planning, and process control
- Previous experience migrating from a legacy ERP to a new one is a nice to have, but not required
Technical Skills:
- Previous experience utilizing an ERP System (i.e. MS Dynamics, Epicor, etc..)
- Previous CRM experience (i.e. Zoho, Hubspot, Salesforce, etc...)
- Statistical Analysis software (i.e. JMP, Minitab)
- MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc...)
- 10 years' experience in operations management, concentrating on process improvements and turning businesses around
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science or other Technology related fields
For IMMEDIATE consideration, Call Dan Birnbaum TODAY at 5._8._5._2._7._2._9._0._5._1. Resumes can be sent directly to dbirnbaum@nescoresource.com
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