Director of Operations - Manufacturing (Global & Multi-site)

Vida Group International; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Vida Group International is seeking a Director of Operations to lead fast-growing global manufacturing and technical centers across the Americas, Asia and Europe. The role focuses on safety, cost control, and on-time delivery while driving continuous improvement and data-driven decision making.

You will build strong relationships with senior leaders, manage budgets, and mentor a diverse team, ensuring compliance with health, safety and environmental standards across all plants.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead complex manufacturing/industrial operations.
• Experience with lean and CI in a multi-site environment.
• Strong knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure plant operations meet company and government safety and environmental rules.
• Instill a safety culture to drive world-class safety performance.
• Set strategic goals for manufacturing and technical centers and align with company values.
• Build strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Drive productivity and efficiency across regions using best technologies.
• Develop budgets with plant managers and monitor profitability.
• Manage and develop staff, including hiring, training, and performance reviews.
• Lead change management and foster global collaboration.

Skills

Data-driven leadership

Lean manufacturing

Operations management

Continuous improvement

Regulatory compliance

Safety standards

Team development

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Job description

Our client is a global B2B Technology & Industrial products company seeking a strong Director of Operations for their fast growing global footprint in the Americas, Asia and Europe.

• Ensure plant operations meet all company and government safety and environmental rules and regulations.
• Instills a plant safety culture to drive world-class occupational and process safety performance.
• Establish strategic goals for manufacturing and technical center while aligning operational activities with Company goals and values.
• Build collaborative relationships and effectively interact with business, senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Drives plant productivity and efficiency by monitoring processes and leveraging most effective technologies across the regions.
• Establish strategy for plants to ensure that delivery of manufactured products meet safety, quality, cost and on-time delivery goals in support of associated business objectives.
• Create metrics and evaluate the efficiency of business procedures according to organizational objectives and apply improvements by analyzing and interpreting data and metrics of various disciplines.
• Work with plant managers to develop and adjust operation budgets to promote profitability, monitor revenue margins and ensure Company goals areachieved or exceeded.
• Responsible for staff management and development including assigning and directing work, appraising performance, hiring, training and retention, disciplining, addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Cooperates and effectively communicates with business units to meet Company objectives.
• Leads change management activities for area of responsibility.
• Coach, mentor and develop the team by fostering an environment of continuous learning, and encouraging global collaboration in a geographically and culturally dispersed organization.
• Provides process technology subject matter expertise to operations team.
• Supports and champions any process safety programs, policies and procedures.
• Supports sustainability initiatives.

Knowledge / Experience / Skills Required

• Demonstrated ability to build on new data-led culture in operations facility, and be an effective driver of change.
• Degree in a relevant discipline
• Ten years of managerial experience with budgetary responsibility in the consumer/electro-mechanical industry preferred.
• Ideally from a competitive/lean manufacturing environment, with a strong focus on operations, lean and CI.
• Knowledge of current Health, Safety, and Environmental legislation and standards.
• A keen focus on regulatory compliance a plus.
• Proven management experience in process plant.
• Worked in an environment of leading organization capabilities. In other words able to get it done with limited resources (people and financials).
• Demonstrated ability to create and implement innovative solutions to complex problems running a single train / multi-product operating facility.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, direct and positively motivate others.
• Strong ability to identify, develop and encourage talent.
• Demonstrated results in process improvement and experience in reliability best practices and programs
• Proven ability to measure performance and deliver against objectives.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to influence all levels of the organization.
• Evidence of ongoing training/development at a senior level to current best practice.