Dir, USAC Mfg Operations

Job Description

As a Director of Plant Operations, you will:

Provide direct leadership for 7 manufacturing sites within TEBG USAC operations. Direct reports will be plant managers for these sites.  This position will be accountable to deliver improved results in EHS, Quality, Value Stream Performance, Cost, Cash, and Employee Relations for the plant teams under their leadership.

The Director of Operations’ pro-active involvement with division personnel, R & D, and business teams will ensure strong alignment of operational goals, metrics, and targets with the business/division objectives. 

Environmental, Health, and Safety, Security compliance and accountability, with active visible leadership / involvement across the sites will be required. This position will set expectations for employee safety, compliance, and environmental stewardship.

The Director of Manufacturing Operations will provide leadership and set expectations to drive systemic changes in all plant performance metrics through appropriate application of Continuous Improvement and Tier process methodologies. The position will be accountable to Root Cause and Action Plan attainment. The ideal candidate must drive customer focus through excellent first-time quality, prompt complaint resolution and corrective actions and ensure appropriate value stream performance through responsiveness, delivery performance, capacity management, and appropriate inventory management including working and non-working inventory, as well as financial deliverables.

As a Director of Operations, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. Here, you will make an impact by:

• EHS stewardship and compliance to ensure operational Environmental, Health, and Safety compliance and accountability. EHS active visible leadership, ownership, and involvement within all operations.
• Providing leadership by ensuring appropriate resources are deployed to facilitate technology advancement and a vision to factory of the future in impacted sites
• Driving strategic planning and budgeting to drive sustainable improvements in factory cost, entitlement thinking, yield improvement, and plant productivity.
• Deployment of lean manufacturing principles and methodology to drive employee engagement and continuous improvement through principle-based leadership.
• Managing supply chain execution and inventory management to ensure appropriate customer value stream performance through responsiveness, delivery performance, capacity management, supplier management, and appropriate inventory management including working and non-working inventory.
• Implementing/ensuring industry leading quality products through design for manufacturability, error proofing, and a culture of zero defects, creating value for our customers.
• Accelerating value creation for customers through alignment, improved information flow, systematic thinking to increase our overall value stream efficiency through delivery performance and strengthening our focus on continuous improvement.
• Developing manufacturing strategies for advanced problem solving, a high-performance workforce, capital equipment planning, technology advancement, and employee and leadership development.
• Supporting facility Strategic and Operational planning activities.
• Developing strong leaders through accountability and a commitment to the leadership behaviors and the EPR process via principle-based leadership and a strong HOO process.

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who must have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited institution
• Ten (10) years of experience in a private, public, government, or military environment in one or more of the following areas: EHS, quality, new product introduction, manufacturing engineering, manufacturing technology, process engineering, manufacturing operations and/or supply chain management.
• Five (5) years Plant Manager or Large Value Stream Manager experience
• Five (5) years of combined experience in a senior management/supervisory position in a manufacturing environment in a private, public, government or military environment
• Five (5) years' experience managing and/or supervising direct reports and large organizations in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Demonstrated strong leadership ability and history of leading high-performance teams
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or supply chain discipline
• Experience and certification with Lean Six Sigma/Lean Manufacturing methodologies
• Experience in leading strategic and organizational development, operational excellence, lean implementation, financial accounting
• Experience in Mining or heavy industrial applications
• Effective communication skills

•   Work location: Maplewood, MN

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