Chief Operations Director, Global Manufacturing

Alliance Machine Systems International, LLC; Spokane (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401K with employer match

Paid time off (PTO)

Paid holidays

Bonus program

Job summary

Alliance Machine Systems International, LLC, in Spokane, WA, is seeking a Senior Director of Operations to lead manufacturing performance and scale across North American sites. You will align engineering, production, quality, and supply chain to deliver complex automation equipment and engineered systems.

Ideal candidates bring 15+ years in manufacturing leadership, drive improvements in delivery, quality, capacity, and cost, and can lead high-mix, configured-to-order production with a strong

Qualifications

• 15+ years’ experience in manufacturing operations, or plant leadership within an industrial manufacturing environment.
• At least 7 years in manufacturing operations leadership, with direct responsibility for manufacturing operational performance.
• Experience within industrial automation, robotics, machinery, electrical equipment, motion control, or engineered capital equipment manufacturing.
• Direct leadership of operations, rather than engineering or project delivery alone.
• Experience with complex, high-mix, engineered-to-order, configure-to-order, or project-based production.
• A proven record of improving delivery, quality, productivity, capacity, cost, and gross margin.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across production, quality, planning, and supply chain.
• Strong understanding of the transition from engineering and product design into manufacturing and operations.
• Experience leading managers and developing scalable operational structures.
• Working knowledge of ERP, MRP, production planning, scheduling, and manufacturing-performance systems.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills across engineering, sales, project management, supply chain, service, and executive leadership.
• Willingness to travel to US manufacturing sites, suppliers, and customers as required.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution operations across the company’s production facilities.
• Set standards for safety, quality, on-time delivery, productivity, and cost.
• Improve the transfer of products and projects from engineering into manufacturing.
• Increase capacity while maintaining quality, delivery, and customer performance.
• Improve on-time delivery, lead times, throughput, and gross margin.
• Strengthen production planning, scheduling, supply chain, capacity planning, and work-in-progress control.
• Manage critical components, suppliers, and long-lead materials with procurement and supply chain teams.
• Establish scalable processes for complex, high-mix, engineered-to-order automation products and systems.
• Support new product introduction and design-for-manufacture initiatives.
• Improve collaboration across sales, engineering, project management, procurement, manufacturing, continuous improvement and quality.
• Lead recovery plans for delayed or strategically important projects.
• Establish clear operational performance-management KPIs.
• Develop plant managers, production managers, and operational teams.
• Support facility expansion, automation investment, capital planning, and potential upcoming new-site development.
• Partner with the executive team on manufacturing strategy, capacity, organizational design, and long-term growth.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional teams

Strategic planning

Communication

Operational excellence

Tools

ERP

MRP

Production planning

Job description

Alliance Machine Systems International, LLC, in Spokane, WA, is seeking a Senior Director of Operations to lead manufacturing performance and scale across North American sites. You will align engineering, production, quality, and supply chain to deliver complex automation equipment and engineered systems.

Ideal candidates bring 15+ years in manufacturing leadership, drive improvements in delivery, quality, capacity, and cost, and can lead high-mix, configured-to-order production with a strong