Operations Director, Aerospace Transparencies

PPG Industries; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Remote Fridays

Job summary

PPG Industries is seeking an Operations Director for Aerospace Transparencies to build and lead an international manufacturing and supply chain footprint. The role oversees sites in North America and Europe, drives safety, quality and cost discipline, and partners with S&OP, procurement, and supplier teams to enable strategic growth.

The position is hybrid, with options to base in multiple U.S. locations or adjacent sites, and requires significant leadership, process excellence, and global

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in technical discipline, engineering preferred.
• 10+ years of operations and engineering experience in discrete manufacturing.
• 5+ years of management/supervisory experience.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
• Demonstrated success in driving improved performance and metrics.
• Leadership to drive cross-functional teams and develop talent.

Responsibilities

• Be actively engaged in Safety and Quality; lead by example and ensure compliance with standards.
• Monitor Environmental, Health, and Safety performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Develop an operations and supply chain culture with bias for action and accountability.
• Monitor and improve KPIs; lead corrective actions to deviations.
• Collaborate with Functional teams leading S&OP, Supplier Management and Development, and Procurement.
• Drive lean manufacturing and six sigma concepts to improve performance and efficiency.
• Lead root cause/corrective action processes and ensure sustained results.
• Conformance with Quality and EH&S policies; ensure CARs are completed.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Travel readiness

Change management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline

Engineering background preferred

Job description

As the Operations Director for Aerospace Transparencies, you will develop and maintain an organization for the Global Transparencies business that supports both Commercial and Operational strategies. You will be responsible for providing strategic, developmental, and tactical direction of the business to drive Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement. Is responsible for delivering products safely, on quality, on time and at targeted costs with oversite of operations and supply chain.You will report to the GM of Global Transparencies. This is a hybrid position can be based out of Sylmar, CA, Grand Prairie, TX., or Huntsville, AL.

You will manage:

• 4 Manufacturing Sites in 2 different Countries (Sylmar CA, Huntsville AL, Grand Prairie, TX in the USA & Casaletto Vaprio, Italy)

• The Transparencies Supply Chain CoE Manager
  

Key Responsibilities

• Be actively engaged in Safety and Quality; lead by example and ensure operational discipline and compliance with both company and regulatory standards and requirements are fulfilled for all departments on site.

• Regularly monitor and review Environmental, Health, and Safety performance; ensure compliance and continuous improvement in striving for a risk-free manufacturing environment.

• Build and develop an operations and supply chain culture that has a bias for action, commitment to value-added services/processes, and a sense of accountability and leadership.

• Monitor and improve Key Performance Indicators; lead corrective action to deviations to plan as appropriate.

• Facilitate communications throughout the sites and within the respective Business, Program, and Functional teams offsite.

• Collaborate with the Functional teams leading S&OP, Supplier Management and Development, and Procurement aligning on both the tactical and strategic needs of the business.

• Provide the critical thinking necessary to lead and direct the analysis of alternative approaches and methodologies necessary to deliver efficiencies and simplicity.

• Strive to ensure that the service requirements for performance, as dictated by internal and external customers, are achieved.

• Develop and manage the strategies and processes of the operational functions within the business; ensure alignment and progress on process standardization, accomplishment, and collaboration.

• Delegates work assignments and tasks while matching responsibilities to the employee; sets expectations and monitors performance while providing feedback and recognition of results.

• Deliver financial commitments to operating plans; achieve expense, variance, and production plans as budgeted.

• Actively participate in Working Capital management; including regular communication and action to address deviations to plan.

• Anticipate technological changes in the industry and review opportunities to enhance operations in order to optimize productivity, support business growth, and deliver competitive advantages.

• Generate ideas and plans to enhance the performance of the manufacturing site, e.g., safety, process, rate, yields and quality improvement through lean manufacturing and six sigma concepts. Stimulate plant managers and sites personnel to think outside the box.

• Drive the root cause/corrective action process for critical issues and ensure that all corrective actions are completed and sustained and drive the predicted results.

• Conformance with the PPG and SBU Quality and EH&S policies. Ensure MOCs, RCCA for EHS CARs and Quality CARs are completed as expected.

Qualifications

• Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply.

• Bachelor’s Degree in technical discipline, engineering preferred.

• 10+ years of operations and engineering experience, in a discrete manufacturing operation Experience in highly regulated low volume high mix engineered products manufacturing environment.

• 5+ years of management/supervisory experience.

• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment with the ability to prioritize multiple, competing tasks and demands.

• Demonstrated success in driving improved performance and metrics.

• Leadership skills to include the ability to lead and drive cross-functional teams to achieve measurable results, influence others to adopt new ideas and see alternate perspectives, identification and development high-growth talent, experience developing short- and long-term vision for site policies, processes and structures, skills to determine critical data requirements and tools needed to understand and analyze gaps through all aspects of the value stream

• Available to travel both domestically and internationally.

Salary Range $180,000-$250,000

How we work: At PPG, we bring teams together to accelerate collaboration and career development, with in-person work Monday through Thursday and the opportunity to work remotely on Flexible Fridays. Schedules may vary by location.

About us:

PPG: WE PROTECT AND BEAUTIFY THE WORLD ®

Through leadership in innovation, sustainability and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways thandoes any other company. To learn more, visit www.ppg.com and follow @PPG onX.

The PPG Way 2030

We are customer champions

Proactive. Bold. Trustworthy. Everything we do starts with our customers. We listen, movefastanddon’tstop until we solve their biggest challenges. When our customers win, we all grow.

We act with purpose and speed

Agile. Data-driven. Empowered. We take smart risks to stay ahead of the competition. We work proactively with agility, using quality data to develop solutions that create value.

We are excellentoperators

Productive. Collaborative. Accountable. No matter our role, weidentifyproblems, takeownershipand always bring solutions. We are both proactive and responsive to drive continuous improvement and deliver results. We support ourfrontline,the faces of PPG to our customers.

We compete to win

Future-focused. Driven. Ambitious. We are passionate about growing our business and winning with our customers. We deliver results, embrace newtechnologiesand leverage agility and speed as strengths.

We are PPG proud

Strong. United. Passionate. We work safely, act withintegrityand value our diverse perspectives. We celebrate achievements and take pride in the positive impact we create together to protect and beautify the world.

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