The Manufacturing Operations Manager will oversee the daily operations of our manufacturing facility. The incumbent oversees and may coordinate, plan, and direct production processes that are manufactured. They are also responsible for work direction of the supervisors in their work teams to ensure the manufacturing and inspection teams meet or exceed established production schedules and revenue targets. Ensures manufacturing schedules and quality standards are achieved. Facilitates continuous improvement initiatives and promotes a team approach to the improvement of production flow and processing. Develops and maintains a high-performance team.

• Driving Results: Motivate to persistently pursue and achieve effective results, which drive the business forward.
• Leading People: Effectively lead and manage the performance of people by being a role model to others, monitoring progress on objectives and behaviors and coaching others for success.
• Strategic Decision Making: Make effective and timely decisions by sourcing and analyzing critical information.
• Commercial Orientation: Understand and recognize the organizations commercial and military market environment to support commercial success.
• Driving Change: Identify, lead and support change and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Stakeholder Impact: Effectively build relationships both internally and externally, understanding the customers’ needs.
• Collaboration & Influencing: Engage, challenge, and work effectively with others.
• Emotional Intelligence: Able to monitor your own and others’ emotions to appropriately guide thinking and behavior.
• Influence: Able to navigate conversations and various scenarios to appropriately negotiate the desired outcome.

• Leads and manages the manufacturing team to achieve operational KPIs such as: Safety, OTD, COPQ, FPY, DL Utilization and financial targets for all programs.
• Ensures daily production meetings are standardized and functional to ensure daily priorities and tasks are aligned with the master production schedule.
• Ensures team members are all cross-trained and possess the required skills needed to perform designated operations with a high first-pass yield.
• Setting standards to ensure assembly and test processes are executed in accordance with associated documents.
• Develops and maintains a capacity model to allow for the required number of resources and equipment to support production and revenue plans.
• Performs all leadership and management duties related to role, including interviewing, training, developing, performance management, goal setting, feedback, coaching, performance reviews, etc. Develops and leads a high performance and engaged team.
• Develops and implements an effective 3x3 Skills Matrix to eliminate single points of failure.
• Promotes a culture of collaboration, accountability, and positive morale.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives such as 5s, Kaizens, Root-Cause Analysis and other tasks as part of our Lean Journey.
• Ensures all Health, Safety and Environmental processes are followed. Drives a culture of HSE excellence.

Perform other duties as required.

• 10 years of experience in a manufacturing/engineering environment preferred.
• At least five years of management experience required.
• Ability to lead by example the Smiths Values – Customer Focus, Integrity, Passion, Ownership, and Respect.
• Positive, driven, engaging and team-oriented approach.
• Proficiency in ERP systems.
• Lean/ Continuous Improvement/Root Cause Analysis experience required.
• Inventory Management experience may be required.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and team building skills required.
• Ability to perform complex problem solving.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Six Sigma of Green Belt trained individuals preferred.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance.