General Information:

Hitachi Energy is seeking for a Factory Manager for its Crystal Springs, MS location.

Your Responsibilities:

• Manage overall manufacturing operations of the organization and a staff involved in the operations of the factory including SIOP process.
• Implements continuous improvement methodologies to increase productivity and reduce costs following the Integrated Transformer Management System (ITM) to improve safety, quality, delivery and cost.
• Develops programs, projects, goals, and metrics to lead the organization to the highest level of operational performance while optimizing working capital throughout Operations. Collaborates with HUB ITM team to integrate lean manufacturing principles into production processes.
• Develops and executes plans to reduce non-value-added costs, increase revenues, and delight customers by delivering products on time with high factory and supplier yields and decreasing product field failure rates. Ensures that ITM maturity development training and methods are implemented into the organization.
• To grow the business and deliver on time with quality.
• Recruit, retain and develop outstanding people.
• Ensure high customer focus.
• Demonstrate unquestionable business ethics and conduct.
• Provide a safe and healthy environment for employees. Ensures compliance with Group health, safety and environmental directives and that regulations are implemented, while monitoring and reporting progress and results. Assesses risks and safety hazards and implements plans to ensure people and equipment safety. Instills in work culture (ITM) philosophy of how we operate.
• Execute product development strategies for improving cost position and product performance.
• Provide coaching and leadership to the business team members.
• Ensures (with HRBP support) that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Guides, motivates and develops direct and indirect subordinates within HR policies, for the benefit of both Hitachi Energy and the employee.
• Establish a strong bench strength of successors and high potentials.
• Support the implementation of global and domestic initiatives (OsA, SAP, SOX)
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Engineering/technical undergraduate degree.
• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• MBA Preferred.
• Prior Factory Management experience in a Union environment.
• Transformer experience preferred.
• Overall, 16 years of experience with minimum of 7 years leadership experience.
• Strategic development experience.
• Lean/Six Sigma Transformational experience.
• Preferred P & L responsibility experience.
• Marketing and customer-facing experience.
• Outstanding leadership skills.
• History of developing people.