Director of U.S. Operations - APC at APC

PURPOSE: To direct the operations, production, and engineering for APC’s U.S. Manufacturing systems by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate managers.

JOB DUTIES:

• Responsible for overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of APC’s U.S. manufacturing facilities, collections systems, and engineering teams.
• Interact, visit, and communicate with various vendors regarding necessary changes to improve operations at APC plants.
• Direct operations, distribution, and warehousing in accordance with policies, principles and procedures established by APC.
• Confer with sales and representatives of associated industries to evaluate and promote growth and efficiency in APC operations.
• Develop plans for supply and efficient use of materials, machines, and employees.
• Review production costs and product quality, maximize yields, modify production and inventory control programs to maintain and enhance profitable operation of APC’s U.S. Operations.
• Research and assess the viability of new technologies to improve operations and bring new products capabilities on-line for APC plants and collections systems.
• Participate in strategic planning process by reviewing APC operations and recommend budgets for both raw material and capital expenditures.
• Work with plant management to submit necessary requests for capital investment in accordance with established budgets, process, and return-on-investment requirements; present capital investment projects to COO and as necessary to the APC Leadership Team.
• Interview, hire, train, plan, assign, direct work; appraise performance, reward and discipline employees, address complaints and resolve problems, and provide overall leadership to APC U.S. Plant Managers and associated personnel.
• Ensures all training is provided and relevant measurable objectives are set for all Plant Management teams at all manufacturing facilities. Mid-year and end of year reviews to be conducted for all U.S. Operations Management.
• Monitors and takes necessary action to ensure safe work conditions exist at all APC U.S. production facilities.
• Insure quality standards and bio-safety standards are met and exceeded for all products, plants, and collections sites.
• Monitor and improve capacity to meet the needs of the on-going business.
• Provide operational guidance for our 2 Canadian joint venture plants.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Knowledge of manufacturing, engineering, and operations principles and ability to apply those principles to production management function.
• Ability to effectively communicate and work with management, R&D, QA, Procurement, Sales and Customer Service as well as with customers and other business contacts.
• Ability to maintain and manage corporate confidential information as well as confidential customer information.
• Knowledge of organizational methods and the ability to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously.
• Ability to assist with special or ongoing projects as instructed by senior management.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, technical procedures, or government guidelines.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from internal individuals/groups, suppliers, customers, and the public.
• Ability to analyze data and utilize lean and 6-sigma techniques to drive optimization and problem solving.
• Ability to think strategically and at the same time solve practical problems across a variety of situations.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree desirable. BS or MBA in operation management and/or engineering preferred.

Experience:

8-10 years’ experience required, 5 years production / plant management preferred.