At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. Operations Director

This role is the key leader responsible for overseeing all Plant Operations including; Supply Chain, Procurement, Environmental health and Safety, Manufacturing Engineering and Operational Excellence. The Director of Operations will be a key staff position tasked with developing a comprehensive Operations strategy / plan and executing the plan in a disciplined manner and in line with TE Operating Advantage (TEOA), lean, principles. This role is responsible to ensure company and functional goals are achieved and to ensure accountability of his/her team. This role is responsible to build an engaged and high performing organization; assess, coach, and develop talent; and drive inclusion and diversity the organization. 

Job Responsibilities

Strategy：

Combines knowledge of customer needs, business trends, and operations capabilities to develop comprehensive strategic plans that create a sustainable competitive advantage. Leverages the organization and works collaboratively to meet current requirements and future priorities. Ensures effective planning and execution throughout the S&OP process and drives improvement of the S&OP process. Leveraging TEOA, develops an operational excellence manufacturing strategies to drive step change transformation in manufacturing, safety, efficiency, quality, and customer service. Manages all aspects of Gross Margin improvement including material and conversion cost productivity, scrap reduction, inventory, and supply chain cost reduction, capital cost reduction. Creates short and long-term footprint and make-v-buy strategies to achieve business goals. Manages capital cost budget and works globally and regionally to ensure proper utilization of capacity and minimization of capital cost.  Oversees headcount strategies, planning and budgeting in collaboration with HR, ensures appropriate strategies to control labor cost and drive flexibility into operations to manage business cycles.

Execution：

Drives for results and meets commitments, creates a culture of accountability and performance. Collaborates cross functionally and with global and regional counterparts, Centers of Excellence, and business partners to deliver business results and build cost reduction pipelines Establishes, cascades and monitors key metrics to understand if goals and change initiatives have been met, and improvements are effective. Optimizes and aligns organizational resources and structure to meet and/or exceed established targets KPI’s (Ex: TEOA (LEAN), Safety, Quality, Performance, Delivery and Cost.) of a small BU/region.  Ensures flexible, effective and balanced supplier contracts, engages and supports in negotiations. Ensures site environmental compliance, health and safety for all sites and employees. Drive organization structures and programs (e.g. footprint changes, migration/localization, consolidation, new product, process and equipment requirements) to meet business goals Through deployment of TEOA, drives a lean culture that delivers continuous and breakthrough improvements. Manages constrained or critical resources (Labor, Capital, Supplier, etc.), makes tradeoffs, and delivers solutions to optimize short term & long-term performance Drives S&OP planning process and manages market fluctuations by taking proactive countermeasures including, cost control, labor balancing, inventory optimization, insourcing and outsourcing to ensure business performance and customer satisfaction.

Talents：

Creates and invests in a robust succession plan at all levels Effectively identifies, develops, and promotes hi-potential talent; acts as coach for hi-potential talent. Builds functional leadership, skills and capabilities to meet future business needs Assess functional and technical capability gaps and implements actions to close gaps.  Monitors Employee Engagement to drive actions to ensure a highly motivated team. Delivers plan. with support of HR business partner, to proactively manage; retention, headcount, performance reviews, promotion and recognition. Personally demonstrates and drives a culture of inclusion and diversity  Metrics

•    Productivity:  Conversion Cost, Material Productivity
•    TEOA Star Level – Level of lean achievement
•    Delivery: Ship-to-Request & Inventory Turns/Days-on-hand/$
•    Quality:  Customer Complaints, PPM, Cost of Poor Quality, Supplier quality (DLPM).
•    EH&S:  Environmental compliance, TRIR, Energy usage reduction
•    Gross Margin

What your background should look like:

Key Candidate Attributes
•    High integrity, open and honest.
•    Global and multi-cultural mindset, not constrained to convention or custom but respectful of it.
•    Willing to speak up and offer input or opinion even if counter to others, willing to ask questions and seek out support.
•    Proven track record of performance and promotion
•     Results and execution oriented
•     Approachable and collaborative, exemplifies teamwork
•    Self-motivated, leads by example

Competencies & Skills 
•    More than 15 years relevant working experience
•    More than 10 years supervisory experience
•    Strong working knowledge and direct, hands-on experience implementing lean manufacturing in a manufacturing environment 
•    Multi-site management
•    Strong financial acumen, prior responsibility for financial (or Gross Margin) performance
•    Technical skill set, able to comprehend and improve complex processes and products
•    Proven ability to build effective teams and lead people

Experience
•    Must have solid and long enough Operations, Plant Management experience
•    Supply Chain and Procurement Management
•    Quality management
•    Process or Industrial Engineering
•    Prior union and labor management experience is a plus
•    Prefer multi-country experience

Education
•    Bachelor Business or Engineering
•    MBA preferred

Professional Training & Certifications 
•    Prefer to CPIM
•    Prefer TPS, Kaizen certification

Competencies Motivating OthersBuilding Effective TeamsManaging and Measuring WorkValues: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, TeamworkSET : Strategy, Execution, Talent (for managers)