Associate Director Manufacturing Operations - Site Leader (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2026-01-08

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HNH32: US031-Durham, NH 121 Technology Drive Building 125, Suite B, Durham, NH, 03824 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

This job requires a U.S. Person. A U.S. Person is a lawful permanent resident as defined in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(20) or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3). U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or individuals granted refugee or asylee status in the U.S. are considered U.S. persons. For a complete definition of “U.S. Person” go here: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/chapter-I/subchapter-M/part-120/subpart-C/section-120.62

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

We are seeking a highly motivated, talented Associate Director Operations who has the desire to lead and coach our Operations team at our Durham, NH and Gloucester, MA facilities, including a Hampton, NH facility that is transitioning to Durham.

The Operations Leader is responsible for managing all aspects of operations in a complex site, establishing, and executing production and quality objectives. The Operations Lead recommends and implements processes and operating plans to ensure safety, quality, operational efficiency, and cost effectiveness.

This position joins the Mission Critical Products (MCP) team within the Mission Systems Business Unit.  The MCP team has a strong vision centered around putting our customers first.  We deliver trusted solutions that keep our customer connected, informed, aware and mission ready.  As a team, we exist to help our customer complete their missions and return home safely.  Our strong focus right now is to meet all our commitments – delivering our solutions on-time and on-budget.  The successful candidate will join us in fully embracing and adopting the Collins Management System.

Brazonics, Inc. is a brazing, machining and engineering company based out of Durham, New Hampshire. Brazonics specializes in dip and vacuum brazing combined with highly sophisticated chassis testing. Our distinct process goes beyond traditional capabilities to deliver durable and highly efficient thermal solutions to aerospace and commercial industries. This position provides the right candidate with an exceptional opportunity to grow their manufacturing engineering career. The selected candidate will support the Thermal and Electronic Solutions team within Mission Systems and the individual will play a key role in the organization as they prepare for facility relocation.

We have a brand-new state-of-the-art facility which includes new equipment, a cafeteria, onsite fitness gym, golf simulator, outdoor tennis court, basketball court, and pickleball court.

What You Will Do

• Overall responsibility for the operational performance of the value streams located within the Hampton, Durham, and Gloucester sites, including safety, quality, cost, delivery and inventory as well as leading the sites in operational excellence and lean transformation

• Leads the overall site Facilities, Maintenance and EH&S team

• Lead a successful transition plan to the new facility in Durham, NH.  Including but not limited to, facilities and operational execution plans, output ramp plans, and customer interface

• Train, mentor and motivate a cross functional matrixed team. Drive talent development across the Operations team and ensure ready now successors for key positions

• Oversees and directs cost reduction efforts and process improvements to ensure efficiency of operations and cost effectiveness

• Work closely with the SIOP team to oversee and directs scheduling to ensure that the plants meet established targets and standards

• Collaborate on materials and logistics problem resolution for availability of materials and smooth operations

• Interfaces with customers (internal and external) to understand customer needs and issues and ensure that the customers receive exceptional quality and on-time delivery of products delivered

• Ensure effective communication (written and oral) via status reports to program, customer and functional management in accordance with program communication plan and processes methodologies

• Drive use of leading/lagging metrics in the monitoring of progress against plan and evaluation of root cause and implementation of corrective actions in support of a continuous improvement culture

• Strategic planning of manpower and material to support factory level loading and tactical planning on a daily basis to maximize labor and equipment utilization

• Will require frequent interface with various customers and will be the so