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The Agile Manufacturing director will provide strategic leadership and tactical direction to the agile manufacturing operations of OFE business within MENATI while maintaining high standard of Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S), with the goal of creating sustainable competitive advantage through manufacturing cooperation with leading facilities in the region; achieving operational excellence in quality, delivery and cost.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Lead the selection of the most suitable location and facilities for agile manufacturing and drive the negotiations with potential public and/or private manufacturing facilities
- EH&S –work with potential manufacturing facilities on creating and effectively implementing sustainable business processes that result in decreased injuries and accidents.
- Quality – work with qualified Man. Facilities on creating and effectively implementing sustainable processes and working closely with Procurement and Engineering to drive down base cost on existing and new products.
- Delivery – creating and effectively implementing sustainable business processes that result in improved predictability and speed of product shipments.
- Cost – creating and executing strategies to sustainability improve manufacturing cost and labor productivity.
- Organizational Development – developing and retaining a highly productive and efficient operations team while driving succession planning for key roles.
- Cross-line responsibility in a matrix organization for Operations in all Product Identification Platform sourcing, engineering, legal and OFE global manufacturers.
Job Requirements
- A minimum of 20 years of experience in a global, networked, major multinational infrastructure environment of a top company with world class manufacturing capabilities
- Drive the relationship with top country officials and create success business model
- Demonstrated track record of achieving stretch goals within a global multinational company for safety, quality, on-time delivery and cost reduction, as well as leadership of a multi-site manufacturing operation
- Proven hands-on Lean conversion experience.
- Acquisition integration experience will be a plus.
- Strong track record of organization and team development including succession planning, developing future leaders and top-grading. Positively drives team engagement, collaboration and teamwork.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including effective use of presentations and spreadsheet analysis.
- A bachelor’s degree in engineering, business management, operations management or engineering.
- Demonstrates Leadership to Enable Global Growth
- A highly motivated, efficient leader with a bias for action, and a reputation for driving successful change and assessing and building strong teams.
- Ability to cultivate relationships within the organization and enables a foundation for growth.
- He/she will be an agile leader, adapting processes and products for optimal efficiency across global manufacturing locations.
- An executive who will not be afraid to make unpopular decisions regarding the current and future footprint of the business, and will lead through the power of ideas, using facts and strong communication skills to help lead operations.
- Will be a proven business leader with demonstrated success, and integrating all aspects of complex industrial technology products and systems.
- He/she will have strong business acumen, working closely with design, engineering, installation and aftermarket service organizations, and establish the appropriate KPIs to measure progress.
- Within this setting, he/she will drive operational improvement initiatives and spread best practices across a global enterprise.
- Will continue to strengthen the capability of his/her team and the organization.
- He/she must be a skilled team builder with a proven track record of strengthening organizational competencies through exceptional leadership skills.
- This individual must display evidence of engendering high levels of trust.
- He/she will need to demonstrate the ability to persuade and gain consensus cross functionally, including the persistence required to work through obstacles while building consensus.
- The ideal candidate will have a history of building relationships up and down the “value chain” with ease, alternating from executive-level environments to front-line team members, customers and suppliers
- This individual should value the team as well as the individual, and have an eye for talent internally and externally.
- Is a proven and pragmatic leader who is action oriented and driven to create value and make an impact.
- Is passionate about driving improvements and deploying best practices within an evolving, performance-based environment; a self-starter requiring little oversight or direction.
- Is entrepreneurial and able to work with limited resources.
- Possesses the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced, growing environment.
- Works collaboratively across a complex organization.
- Can scale his/her leadership to work effectively with senior management and line-level employees.
- Maintains the highest levels of personal and professional integrity, ethics and unquestioned integrity in each of his/her initiatives
Desired Characteristics
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
- Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects.
- Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs.
- Established project management skills.
