Director Operations

4 weeks ago


Beaver Dam, United States Generac Grid Services Full time

Company Generac Power Systems

Name Director Operations

Req # 63901

Employment Type Full Time

Shift 1st

At Generac, Our People help make the world safer, brighter and more productive. United by our Values, people with diverse backgrounds and points of view work together to ensure our global customers have peace of mind.

We are a team of builders and doers who share a passion for innovation and a desire to outpace others. As an inclusive workplace, we empower our employees to embrace diversity in all forms, celebrate our differences, and treat everyone with equity and respect. At Generac, our success is powered by Our People.

Job Summary: The Director of Operations has responsibility and leadership for overall operation of a multi-shift manufacturing plant and raw material warehouse campus while coordinating the efforts of a cross functional team of direct and dotted line reports. Owns and implements the Generac Manufacturing System (GMS) based on lean principles and methods to ensure a safe work environment, strengthen talent and culture, improve customer experience (quality, speed, ease), maximize profitable growth, increase productivity, and improve. Leads day-to-day activities to deliver daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly KPI goals. Develops and executes multi-year plans to deliver goals.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Lead the facility in daily operations and lean continuous improvement activities. Emphasize the creation of continuous flow, making information and material flow using pull systems, and managing for daily improvement using visual factory and daily problem solving. Create the systems and processes for employee safety and engagement, industry leading customer experience (quality, speed, each), and productivity and cash by ensuring that standardized work/processes are created and followed, and problems are identified, prioritized, solved, and kept from recurring. Utilize PDCA process in conjunction with the MDI process to deliver metric results in safety, people, quality, delivery, cost, and cash. Develop a visual facility that ensures problems do not remain hidden. Perform Leader Standard Work and layered audits to deliver consistent execution of processes and procedures. Manage and strengthen talent, engagement and culture. Create a culture that stops to fix and prevent problems in order to get quality right the first time. Instill and maintain a positive, can-do, team atmosphere within the facility. Hold regular team communication, ensure urgency, transparency and accountability, and coordinate support services needed outside the team. Ensure leaders provide effective training & cross-training for the employees, including backups from other areas, to assure a continuous smooth-running facility. Develop and execute plans that ensure optimized and improving performance: long range capacity plans (facility and capital equipment), technology plans, & people plans and tactical continuous improvement roadmap and project/kaizen management.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or related field OR equivalent experience 3 years’ experience operating with lean principles and techniques (Toyota Production System, Lean Enterprise Institute, Shingo Institute, Danaher Business System, or equivalent) to improve results year after year 5 years leadership experience managing teams to deliver results in a discrete, industrial or consumer capital goods manufacturing environment

Preferred Qualifications

Masters Degree in Engineering, Business or Supply Chain 6 years of demonstrated implementation experience in and results from Lean principles and methods Lean, Operations or Supply Chain Certifications Experience implementing automated manufacturing processes and systems Experience improving operations equipment reliability and productivity through Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Experience implementing Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES/MOM), and Industry 4.0 / Smart Factory Experience with SAP or equivalent ERP system Demonstrated experience in lean Flow principles, Kanban, and plan for every part (PFEP) Demonstrated experience in leadership with a diversity of team skills

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Demonstrated problem-solving ability, including the ability to identify creative and effective solutions and the ability to ask the right questions, help frame logical conclusions; Demonstrated coaching and mentoring ability. Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Continuous improvement methodologies

Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific conditions of this job include are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.

Benefits

We are an inclusive company that celebrates differences and keeps equity and respect at the forefront. Competitive Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, & 401k 401 (k) retirement savings plans with company match Medical support programs: Maternity, Diabetes, Treatment Decision Support and more Work-life benefits: PTO and Holidays

“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.” #J-18808-Ljbffr



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