Company Generac Power Systems
Name Director Operations
Req # 63901
Employment Type Full Time
Shift 1st
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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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