Sr. Director of Product Manufacturing

POSITION OVERVIEW:The position of Sr. Director, Product Manufacturing will serve as a senior leader responsible for the company’s manufacturing, logistics and facilities maintenance across 5 facilities within the Houston area. The Sr. Director, Product Manufacturing will report to the SVP, Product Manufacturing and participate in the company’s active growth strategy. He/she will act as a key business partner and advisor to members of the Executive Team.KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:Provide senior leadership to the Manufacturing Operations teams and develop a culture and structure that can support and sustain the company’s rapid growth and strategic investments.Develop a balanced scorecard management approach including metrics that align departmental objectives with those of peer functions and the company’s broader strategic agenda.Establish and continually work to improve manufacturing processes that ensure successful project completion and allow the organization to achieve its strategic objectives.Establish systems and fact-based decision processes that allow for the measurement of manufacturing performance and the assessment of strategic supply chain opportunities.Establish structures and processes that ensure accountability for the achievement of results and rewards performance.Ensure that all projects are delivered with uncompromising quality, in accordance with client expectations at all levels, on an on-time and on-budget basis.Employee morale, training, and development. Maintaining cultural standards focused on Safety, Quality, and Productivity.Serve as a champion of the company’s safety, health, environmental and quality objectives through an environment of empowering and engaging employees.JOB SKILLS:Able to model the company’s values of high integrity, safety, teamwork, customer passion, growth, and innovation.Manages stress effectively; ability to maintain performance in a fast paced, dynamic and unstructured environment.Values people and respects the feelings of others.Resourceful, able to work with limited resources and create structure where none exists.Strategic thinker; able to consider business issues in their broadest context considering both internal and external impacts and opportunities.Demonstrated hands-on management style motivated by the opportunity to impact the growth and performance of a business.Collaborative and team oriented; seeks to build relationships, work toward consensus and able to set aside personal needs for the good of the organization.Assertive but diplomatic leadership style that expresses opinions directly and confidently while maintaining sensitivity to the feelings and opinions of others.Results-oriented, uses a systematic process to develop plans and achieve specific outcomes, drives a team to the achievement of objectives, focused on results rather than activities.Ability to identify, develop and mentor next levels of leadership to ensure organizational continuity and continued performance supporting future expansion.Deep knowledge of manufacturing philosophies and understanding of current capacities and capabilities to help shape future capital equipment investments, capacity expansions as well as to keep pace with developing technologies and methodologies in the field.Detail-oriented, ability to visualize and communicate the critical steps involved in successfully completing a project; strives for perfection and the highest level of service quality possible.Strong written and verbal communication skills.Spanish language skills a plus.REQUIRED WORK EXPERIENCE:Minimum 15 years career experience managing, fabrication and assembly processes with a demonstrated pattern of increased responsibility in management rolesExperience building and managing a manufacturing organization in a high growth or turnaround environment.Demonstrated experience in a Senior Management role managing multi-site manufacturing operations as well as in the expansion of existing facilities and/or start-up of new properties.Experience with batch and cell fabrication of highly engineered modular systems.Experience with high volume, flow manufacturing processes.Experience working as a part of the senior management team of a business with complete functional accountability for a manufacturing organization.A proven effective record of maintaining positive employee relations and high levels of employee motivation and productivity.Experience working with and implementing team-oriented management approaches.Demonstrated ability to work effectively at both the strategic and tactical levels including experience with change management principles and demonstrated ability to drive and manage the change process, from strategic planning through implementation.EDUCATION AND TRAINING:Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

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