Albany International Corp. · 2 days ago
Director of Operations
Boerne, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
10+ years expAlbany International Corp. is a leader in designing and manufacturing advanced composite components. The Director of Operations will oversee facility-level leadership, ensuring safety, quality, cost, and delivery performance, while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and employee engagement.
3D PrintingIndustrialManufacturingTextiles
Responsibilities
In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following values: Safety, Fact Based, Accountable, Respectful, Persistence and Ethical. Put Safety first at all times, never compromise on safety for the obtainment of other objectives. Responsible for health and safety of themselves and coworkers. Responsible for the overall direction of the facility, and accountable for achieving EBITDA growth targets and annual operating plan objectives
Develop, interpret and implement the 1 to 3 year vision for Continuous Improvement, Capital investments, manpower planning in this facility within the context of the Albany Production System and divisional level CI leadership guidance. Establish a culture of Continuous Improvement including use of all appropriate tools such as standard work for shop floor and leaders, visual factory, value steam implementations, moonshine shop availability, 5 / 6S implementation with audits, hoshin planning, continuous (but controlled and measurable) kaizen activities and an overarching management system implementation
Grow the distributed ownership and content of the Quality System within the context of the overall AEC Quality System. Be able to lead agency and registrar audits if necessary. Foster a culture of compliance to the quality system
Lead the development and execution of annual facility operating plans including the effective communication and cascading of objectives
Identify capital equipment / building needs that correspond with business growth in advance of the need to maximize customer confidence, employee productivity and sales / EBITDA growth
Grow and deepen the use of SAP within the facility. Establish super users, review and improve standards regularly, drive accuracy and system use for the purpose of monitoring performance without offline systems needs except for visual factory and to appropriately and effectively plan and implement facility capability / capacity needs to support growth strategies and near term production needs
Develop a positive relationship with all facility customers based upon operational excellence and consistent, dependable execution. Work with program development and customer support within the facility to improve customer satisfaction through better overall execution tied to agreed-to KPIs
Work collaboratively with GM, and other Site Operations and the divisional level Operations Leadership Team to successfully and seamlessly deliver to customers an integrated set of services and products. Incumbent is a member of AEC Operations Leadership Team
Grow true employee engagement to world class levels through CI, inclusion and driving decision making to value stream / work cell levels
Continuously assess and improve talent to deliver scalability and growth requirements. Work seamlessly with HR to recommend and execute personnel actions including hiring, promotions, performance review and any disciplinary measures within AEC policy and procedure definition
Work collaboratively with division level Health and Safety to drive Zero Incident mentality into the facility workforce. Reduce worker’s compensation, incidents, near misses and raise awareness
Identify and implement cost improvements through CI / Lean Manufacturing techniques on the shop floor and across business processes in the office and support areas
Achieve targets and communicate performance to all identified KPIs according to published intervals for review. This to include all related reasons and data
Comply with all work rules including those pertaining to safety, health, quality and AEC Quality Management System
Create presentations and report out for the sites health within each program
Set site goals and objectives to meet or exceed site financial plans
Performs other duties as necessary
Nothing in this document restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time
Qualification
Required
10+ years of demonstrated leadership experience in a world class manufacturing environment including a regulated industry
Bachelors Degree in engineering or operations science required
Facility level leadership responsibility to bring materials management / supply chain, engineering, program leadership, quality, manufacturing, customer support, human resources and administrative functions together as a team in a single plant environment
Accountability for the safety, quality, cost, delivery, and responsiveness performance, continuous improvement performance, employee engagement and teamwork of the facilities
Development of facility leadership team
Demonstrated ability to assess current culture and transform to embrace Lean / CI
Working knowledge of capacity planning, supply chain and logistics management
Demonstrated ability to effectively transfer development projects / programs into production effectively including new equipment, new technology, approaches and new processes
Demonstrated leadership and team building skills at the manager level with those who do not report in directly to this position
Ability to interface with customers, problem solve and drive solutions to meet customer requirements
Exposure to quality and engineering in a regulated manufacturing environment
Knowledge of ISO AS9100, NADCAP, OSHA, EPA and related aerospace regulations
A Six Sigma Green or Black Belt and /or demonstrated CI / Lean background and root cause / corrective action success
Basic financial knowledge and understanding of P&L, balance sheet and income statement
Presence and initiative to grow revenue
Strong communicator: written and verbal (one-on-one and group)
Strategic thinker: responsible for developing the plan; ability to conceptualize coherent view of facility in the future (6 months, one year, two years, five years)
Rational thinker: good business judgment
Top grader / holds others accountable in a firm but fair way
Preferred
Masters Degree is a plus
Company
Albany International Corp.
Albany International is a global advanced textiles and materials processing company with two core businesses.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$119M2021-08-05Post Ipo Secondary· $119M
1987-10-09IPO
Leadership Team
Gunnar Kleveland
President and Chief Executive Officer
Willard Station
Executive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer
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