Director Of Manufacturing Jobs

If you are interested in joining a company that is a pioneer in creating oilfield pumping units that date back to the 1920’s, look no further! Our client is looking for a Manufacturing Director to join their team in Claremore, OK. You will have the opportunity to work for a world leader in its field, providing precision-engineered oilfield equipment, products, and services to customers around the globe. This opportunity is a Direct Hire role that comes with several perks including full benefits, paid holidays, and paid time off.

Responsibilities:

Operational Excellence/Continuous Improvement

• Identify and lead the team in achieving improvements in working capital turnover.
• Develop a deep understanding of material cost components, to help reduce costs, and improve flexibility of supply.
• Aggressively improve focus and execution of operations as well as establish and achieve cost reduction through improvements and transformations in manufacturing footprint, processes, and labor productivity to markedly improve EBITDA.
• Create transparency using data (KPIs) in a measurable way to achieve a specific strategic result that is relevant to the organization.
• Educate the team and further deploy standard costing methodologies to improve the quality of operational decision-making and ultimately drive improved margins.
• Build the operational excellence strategy, with discrete metrics, to target, track and measure the effectiveness of the transformation.

Leadership

• Ensure a cohesive and aligned leadership team that establishes and achieves aggressive
• Work collaboratively with functional leadership and sales organization to deliver the highest product quality and the client’s exceptional customer service.
• Build a high-performing manufacturing team using excellence in leadership, interpersonal communication, and decision-making ability.

People Development

• Drive assessment of current talent, identifying areas in which bench strength needs to be improved to ensure continued strong performance.
• Attract and retain key talent by building career paths for high performers and providing opportunities for them to grow and move the business along faster.

Skills To Support The Role:

• Change agent - Embrace change and guide the organization through tough challenges while respecting the legacy and history of the company.
• Analytical skills - Able to structure and process qualitative or quantitative data and draw insightful conclusions from it. Exhibits a probing mind and achieves penetrating insights.
• High standards - Expect personal and team performance to be nothing short of the best.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of experience in an operationally intensive, customer-focused manufacturing environment.
• Large plant management experience with a complex industrial product.
• Technical knowledge of engineering, machining, welding, steel, assembly, or stamping.
• Experience and demonstrated success in industrial safety, quality management, customer service, talent management, project management, lean manufacturing, and continuous improvement, inventory management, and asset utilization.
• Direct multi-site leadership is required.
• Experience leading the people, processes, and cultural changes associated with Lean.
• Turnaround experience preferred
• Experience and demonstrated success working with the Supply Chain team.
• Expert at leading change, especially changes associated with CI, Lean, and operational improvement programs in an industrial environment.