Director Of Operations Jobs

Since our founding in 1945, Kaman has had a mindset of constant improvement and creativity. In this way, we fulfill our most important responsibility: providing our customers with solutions to their critical technical and systems challenges. With the resources to pursue large scale endeavors, we continue to recognize and encourage each person’s ability to create significant change.
Invested in our future together.
We have an exciting opportunity for a stategic and motivated Operations Director to join our growing team at Kaman Precision Products. Under the direction of the General Manager, the Operations Director will be responsible for the management and leadership of site specific and divisional manufacturing operations including the day-to-day guidance and coordination with the site’s various support functions.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Review and support engineering to oversee design concepts that support new/existing products or improvements, and ensure cost reductions, improved performance and/or safety.
• Review and support the Environmental, Health, and Safety team to support training and make improvements that ensure compliance with company, customer, and governmental requirements to maintain a safe and healthy work environment.
• Propose improvements/expansion, as necessary. Is the champion for lean manufacturing and related process improvement techniques throughout the facility.
• Deliver on Commitment: Develop and implement short-term and long-range plans and programs to manage and coordinate budget requirements and financial estimates to meet/exceed business and profitability growth objectives. Analyze the manufacturing activities, costs, operations and forecast data to determine the site’s progress toward stated goals and objectives. Is a key contributor to the development and implementation of the business strategic plan for the division including sales, financial performance and new product development.
• Oversee manufacturing and review the resolution of operational, manufacturing and facility problems to ensure minimum costs, prevent operational delays and achieve future growth targets.
• Convey company goals and policies to subordinates through effective leadership and communication skills. Ensure fair and equitable treatment of all employees in facility; guide subordinate supervision in the resolution of personnel/customer relationship concerns.
• Improve Product Quality: Develop the team to have a thorough understanding of how KPP products are manufactured, Assemble input from the teams on critical processes and identify problem areas, Analyze root cause of problems, Determine best solution and implement product and process improvement sequence and then follow up to ensure that the solution has improved the process/product.
• Organization Development: Drive to achieve a culture of excellence that includes safety, quality, continuous improvement, and operational effectiveness. Implement a plan to develop each individual to include: Convey company goals and policies to subordinates through effective leadership and communication skills. Ensure fair and equitable treatment of all employees in facility. Guide subordinate supervision in the resolution of personnel/customer relationship concerns. Develop a skill profile for each position. Understand each individual’s skill set as compared to the skills required. Create goals and objectives for each person. Ensure each person takes ownership for his/her development plan, implement training, cross training and mentoring to ensure that development plans succeed.

Qualifications

• 10 to 13 years of progressive manufacturing management experience in a defense environment or business.
• Fluent oral and written communication skills, as well as demonstrated business and leadership skills.
• Bachelor’s degree required with courses leading to a master’s degree in an engineering and/or business discipline preferred.
• Broad knowledge of a general technical field such as program management, manufacturing or engineering.