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Operations Director

This role is the key leader responsible for overseeing all Plant Operations including; Supply Chain, Procurement, Environmental health and Safety, Manufacturing Engineering and Operational Excellence. The Director of Operations will be a key staff position tasked with developing a comprehensive Operations strategy / plan and executing the plan in a disciplined manner and in line with TE Operating Advantage (TEOA), lean, principles. This role is responsible to ensure company and functional goals are achieved and to ensure accountability of his/her team. This role is responsible to build an engaged and high performing organization; assess, coach, and develop talent; and drive inclusion and diversity the organization.

• Combines knowledge of customer needs, business trends, and operations capabilities to develop comprehensive strategic plans that create a sustainable competitive advantage.
• Leverages the organization and works collaboratively to meet current requirements and future priorities.
• Ensures effective planning and execution throughout the S&OP process and drives improvement of the S&OP process.
• Leveraging TEOA, develops an operational excellence manufacturing strategies to drive step change transformation in manufacturing, safety, efficiency, quality, and customer service.
• Manages all aspects of Gross Margin improvement including material and conversion cost productivity, scrap reduction, inventory, and supply chain cost reduction, capital cost reduction.
• Creates short and long-term footprint and make-v-buy strategies to achieve business goals.
• Manages capital cost budget and works globally and regionally to ensure proper utilization of capacity and minimization of capital cost.
• Oversees headcount strategies, planning and budgeting in collaboration with HR, ensures appropriate strategies to control labor cost and drive flexibility into operations to manage business cycles.

• Drives for results and meets commitments, creates a culture of accountability and performance.
• Collaborates cross functionally and with global and regional counterparts, Centers of Excellence, and business partners to deliver business results and build cost reduction pipelines
• Establishes, cascades and monitors key metrics to understand if goals and change initiatives have been met, and improvements are effective.
• Optimizes and aligns organizational resources and structure to meet and/or exceed established targets KPI's (Ex: TEOA (LEAN), Safety, Quality, Performance, Delivery and Cost.) of a small BU/region.
• Ensures flexible, effective and balanced supplier contracts, engages and supports in negotiations.
• Ensures site environmental compliance, health and safety for all sites and employees.
• Drive organization structures and programs (e.g. footprint changes, migration/localization, consolidation, new product, process and equipment requirements) to meet business goals
• Through deployment of TEOA, drives a lean culture that delivers continuous and breakthrough improvements.
• Manages constrained or critical resources (Labor, Capital, Supplier, etc.), makes tradeoffs, and delivers solutions to optimize short term & long-term performance
• Drives S&OP planning process and manages market fluctuations by taking proactive countermeasures including, cost control, labor balancing, inventory optimization, insourcing and outsourcing to ensure business performance and customer satisfaction.

• Creates and invests in a robust succession plan at all levels
• Effectively identifies, develops, and promotes hi-potential talent; acts as coach for hi-potential talent.
• Builds functional leadership, skills and capabilities to meet future business needs
• Assess functional and technical capability gaps and implements actions to close gaps.
• Monitors Employee Engagement to drive actions to ensure a highly motivated team.
• Delivers plan. with support of HR business partner, to proactively manage; retention, headcount, performance reviews, promotion and recognition.
• Personally demonstrates and drives a culture of inclusion and diversity