About the role
We have an exciting opportunity at our Stuttgart, Arkansas manufacturing facility for someone with a passion for manufacturing and fabrications. The Director, Fabrication Operations will be a part of the facility leadership team and will develop a fabrications operational strategy that aligns with business strategy to improve factory safety, quality, and productivity. The Stuttgart facility is a 750,000 square foot facility with over 1600 employees and is the foundation of the Lennox North America Commercial HVAC business.
What You’ll Do
- Coach a team of leaders to create a work environment that is safe and demonstrates our values of integrity, respect, and excellence.
- Connect and build relationships with shop floor employees and maintain an open-door policy.
- Lead the hiring, direction, assessment, and development of team members. Support and enhance hourly employee capabilities by building skills, utilizing assessment tools and developmental systems.
- Develop departmental strategy for long-term improvements in operational efficiency.
- Leverage delegation skills to manage a wide range of priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Work in a cross-functional team environment with production planning, safety, quality, engineering, and other stakeholders to achieve facility objectives.
- Champion the Stuttgart culture, driving an environment of accountability, open communication, high ethical standards, and demonstration of care for employees.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, business or other related major
- 10 years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment with a proven track record of increasing responsibility
- Significant experience in operations, manufacturing complex products through vertically integrated fabrication processes. including maintenance software and implementations
- Strong working knowledge of metal punch, bending and forming operations, utilizing traditional and robotic systems.
- Experience developing capital project business cases and providing hands-on capital project support.
- Experience leveraging lean manufacturing principles.
Top candidates will also have:
- Self-motivated, resourceful, and entrepreneurial, demonstrating willingness for learning and improvement.
- Well-developed quantitative and qualitative analytical and critical thinking skills
- Skilled with the use of Microsoft and other business software applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SAP, etc.
- Able to motivate and lead teams to achieve goals.
- Strong influencing and communication skills; capable of securing management buy-in, sponsorship and investment through strong articulation of business benefits aligned to broader organizational objectives.
