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    Director Manufacturing Operations

    Gateway Recruiting

    Portland, OR

    Full-time

    Re-posted 9 days ago


    Job description

    Position Summary:

    The Director of Manufacturing Operations is a senior leadership position responsible for overseeing all aspects of semiconductor laser assembly production. This role ensures operational excellence by managing strategic planning, production execution, and cross-functional collaboration to achieve world-class standards in quality, delivery, efficiency, and safety. The director drives continuous improvement and innovation, supporting the company's growth and competitiveness in both military and commercial markets.

    Responsibilities:

    • Manages strategic and tactical aspects of semiconductor laser assembly production for medium-to-high-volume production of ruggedized military & commercial products
    • Establishes production schedules with planning and business groups and executes against schedule to meet goals for revenue, on-time delivery and lead-time
    • Provides supervision and leadership to direct reports including employee performance management, motivating and facilitating continuous learning and development, conducting annual performance appraisals, and providing timely feedback and recognition.
    • Meets aggressive, world-class goals on quality, cycle time, yield and cost
    • Leads global multi-disciplinary teams to deliver new products, sustaining engineering, and NPI of laser-based product lines as part of key strategy in vertically integrated organization.
    • Analyzes bottlenecks and establishes sufficient capacity to cost-effectively meet production demands
    • Drives continuous improvement opportunities and yield metrics utilizing wide variety of analytical techniques (such as FMEA, SPC, DOE, Gage R&R, 8D), lean manufacturing, and six sigma concepts.
    • Coordinates with facilities, including maintenance and buildouts, for optimal uptime and cost
    • Interfaces with senior leadership and various support functions such as Supply Chain, Development Engineering, Quality, Finance, HR, and IT as required to establish plans and execute against them
    • Collaborates with R&D to analyze competition, market trends, emerging technology and drives strategic engineering projects into production as capable products & processes.
    • Ensures strong safety program in place
    • Manages and motivates direct staff
    • Builds upon ISO9001:2000 certified quality management system in place

    Qualifications:

    • Requires a BS in Engineering (Optical, Physics, Electrical, Chemical, Mechanical) and 10+ years high-tech manufacturing experience with at least five years in a managerial role, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
    • MS in Engineering or Business is preferred.
    • 8+ years of experience in product & process development, NPI or process control of laser systems/photonic components
    • 8+ years of experience working for company providing products for US Defense and/or Government Contracting.
    • Working knowledge of FAR/DFAR requirements, and ITAR-compliant operations
    • Skilled in implementing and utilizing lean manufacturing, SPC, ERP, and MRP systems
    • Strong business and people skills, including strategic thinking, executive communication, and basic business financial acumen
    • Strong record of developing and transferring products and processes related to laser systems and photonic components
    • Strong record of effective judgement and decisiveness, clear thinking, problem solving through structured methodologies
    • Strong situational leadership skills, record of developing great teams and strong hires
    • Sets very strong culture of accountability, disciplined thinking, integrity and expectations, leads by example
    • APICS CPIM experience is preferred, but not required
    • Six Sigma Black Belt is preferred, but not required
    • Strong communication skills
    • Excellent team player
    • Demonstrated ability to protect confidential and proprietary information and exercise discretion.
    • Ability to travel up to 15%