Business Unit Manager

Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things. Our people enjoy solving interesting technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other to do the right thing. For you, working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work.

Reporting to the Site Operations Director, the Business Unit Manager (BUM) is primarily responsible for the overall operations of the Business Unit. The BUM develops strategies to meet safety, quality, delivery, cost and lean goals and objectives of the business unit. Leads the interdepartmental coordination, operations budget planning, capacity planning, personnel development, and personnel policy administration of the business unit.

• Participate with the Business Unit Leadership Team to set strategies for each of the Business Units.

• Develop and execute operations and supply chain strategies to meet Business Unit needs. This requires the BUM to influence operations managers at various Moog sites as well as the Supply Chain organization to respond to the Business Unit’s needs. The BUM is the Business Unit’s advocate with these other groups.

• Develop and track progress against product costs and lead-time goals. The BUM will set annual expectations for cost and lead-time improvement. The BUM will also establish longer-term goals and plans, like a roadmap to meet the Business Unit strategy.

• The BUM will manage product delivery and cost performance from a tactical perspective. The BUM will monitor progress and intervene as appropriate to maintain performance. In this role, the BUM will need to drive activities with departments such as Planning, Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, Program Management and Quality Assurance. The BUM is responsible to ensure that supply chain risk registers are maintained by program when appropriate.

• The BUM will develop and execute the overall BU Operations strategy. Each BUM is expected to advocate for the needs of their business unit while understanding the needs of the operating group. Assure that the machine shop/A&T capacity is balanced to the load by subcontracting, make buy decisions, overtime adjustments, production rescheduling, and close coordination with other business units and support groups.

• Degree in an Engineering/ Technical or Business Field, with at least 10 years progressive experience in the fields of operations, production engineering or project/program management.
• Demonstrated experience with material flow, lean and six sigma principles.
• Strong interpersonal communications skills required to coordinate activities across multiple organizations and cultures.
• Facilitative Leadership skills are essential to effectively communicate the  strategic objectives.
• Consistently and strongly demonstrates the identified Moog leadership behaviors.

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