Operations Manager

About Our Client

Our Client is a global leader in advanced composites technology, specializing in manufacturing lightweight, high-performance materials. The organizations serves various industries, including aerospace, defense, industrial, and automotive markets.

• Support the SVP of Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) through optimizing metric and reporting views for future opportunities.
• Responsible for ISC Management Operating System and its optimization to strike the right balance between tactical and strategic objective reviews.
• Responsible for converting all plants to a set format and metric view for Site Reviews.
• Support the VP of Ops positions and learn from their different leadership approaches and how they assess plant performance.
• Travel globally with the SVP of ISC for MOS optimization and follow up of actions assigned.
• Lead Kaizen events several times annually for both organization's financial benefit as well as for development of using the Kaizen approach to rapid achievement of results.
• Will own the completion of the monthly ISC performance review deck as well as the Annual Strategy Planning Presentation
• Executing special projects at the direction of the SVP ISC
• Work closely with the SVP and ISC leadership team, you will have an opportunity to travel up to 50% of the time (domestic and international).

MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

• BS in Engineering or related discipline or equivalent experience. MBA is a plus but not required.
• A minimum of 7 years of operations leadership experience with increasing responsibility.
• Desire to become a plant manager with the ability to relocate in the future.
• Experience managing plant operational metrics such as yields, up time, on time delivery, etc.
• 10+ years of related experience.
• Program management experience and ability to organize and optimize for efficiency towards the achievement of complex goals.
• Ability to tell a story using operations data metrics and influence standardization and change.
• Highly skilled in executive presentation and communications.
• Ability to take complex problems and form scenarios of potential solutions to enable a financially based optimized outcome.
• Demonstrated capability to work and collaborate cross-functionally as well as influence without direct reporting authority.

• Base Salary: $140,000 - $170,000 Plus Bonus
• Benefits Availaable (i.e. health insurance, 401k)
• This position is part of succession planning and will grow into a plant manager