VP of Manufacturing Operations

Overview

Lead manufacturing operations, engineering, maintenance, and supply chain to drive efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• production management
• process optimization
• manufacturing engineering
• budget control
• supplier negotiation
• quality assurance

Tasks

-Direct the company's manufacturing activities to ensure maximum effectiveness is obtained for the production of quality products within specified time and budgetary guidelines. -Provide leadership in continuous improvement activities and successfully enable scalability to achieve our goals of meeting quality, cost, and delivery objectives. -Manage employees and hands-on operation of the companys manufacturing function. -Directs manufacturing engineering efforts to ensure company facilities and equipment are adequately designed, built and maintained. The emphasis will be on robust equipment/processes utilizing quick changeover. Likewise, create strategies to reduce labor costs, reduce scrap, and ensure a product free of defects. -Lead the development and implementation of policies, plans and practices regarding product supply/demand and delivery and authorizes the implementation of strategy and policies. -Work closely with the President on manufacturing plans, goals, and future product innovations. -Play an active role in negotiations with client companies and manufacturing partners. -Participate in formulating and administering company policies and developing long range goals and objectives. This includes the direction, focus, and visualization of activities in responsible departments to further the overall progressive goals and objectives and monitor their progress. -Direct all production control, production process development, quality systems, and purchasing. -Develop and manage budgeting and budget execution with a focus on product costs and margins. -Interface with Research and Development and Sales/Marketing to coordinate the production process for the introduction of new products. -Proactively work with product management, marketing, and research and development teams to provide hardware development solutions and manufacturing engineering support. -Collaborate and coordinate with Planning group to ensure outstanding service level and production allocation. -Oversee companywide procurement activities and direct the negotiations of major procurement contracts to provide proper cost, delivery and quality commitments. The emphasis will be on furthering the worldwide supply base to remain competitive. -Accountable to ensure products meet or exceed customer quality standards and required delivery schedules are met. Formulate processes to enable ISO 9001 certification. -Ensure that manufacturing capabilities meet or exceed all industry and customer requirements for cost, quality and responsiveness.

Requirements

• leadership
• materials management
• bachelor's
• communication
• negotiation
• 10+ years

What You Bring

-Ability to lead and mentor staff to achieve significant results -Experience in materials management, from planning through purchasing, and negotiation and administration of multi-million-dollar procurement agreements. -Bachelors degree required. Masters degree in engineering discipline or MBA preferred. -Possess high professional ethics, good judgment, and ability to take decisive action -Superb communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills -Ability to influence, negotiate and gain commitment at all organization levels -A minimum of 10 years experience in product engineering, manufacturing engineering, management and/or operations of high-volume IC manufacturing in a certified manufacturing organization (ISO 9000).

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