Senior Director Operations - Remote

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world. 

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Job Overview

This position reports to the Vice President, ICT Global Operations and is responsible for effectively leading highly complex and diverse plant and DC operations teams to ensure a safe working environment, and culture of safety, achieve daily production, quality, cost, and delivery requirements aligned with customer expectations and the global business unit plan.  The successful candidate is responsible for driving cross-functional alignment within supply chain, EH&S, quality, engineering, and HR.  This role will leverage the leader’s experience in manufacturing and general management to transform operational performance and increase competitiveness.  People development, leadership effectiveness and excellent communication skills are required. 

This is a hands-on role that provides the candidate with highly visible development opportunities for future operations executive and general management leadership within TE.  This role is directly responsible for the success of these activities within ICT global operations for plants/DCs in the Americas region for which they have direct responsibility, as well as with other TE business units who manufacture on our behalf.  
 

Responsibilities

• Drive our safety culture with a top down and bottom-up empowerment strategy. Adhere to and improve our EHS compliance by implementing preventative and corrective measures to ensure the occupational health and safety of employees, as well as compliance with necessary regulations; actively seek potential risks to proactively mitigate; make the necessary recording and reporting of incidences.  Oversite of plant operations and experience with; manufacturing value streams to include plastic processing, tooling, and automated assembly, materials planning, master scheduling, maintenance, warehousing, and finance supporting overall plant operations.
• Coordinate plant activities with plant leaders, within BU and non-BU – to ensure that business unit objectives are accomplished in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Work with respective plant leaders and the other regional Operations Directors – both ICT and non-ICT – to drive Customer Net Promoter score, inventory, and operations planning processes, as well as ensuring supply and capacity in place to meet customer requirements.
• Empower plant leaders to ensure properly maintained buildings, premises, machines and tools, including preventive maintenance and repair plans, and people resources in accordance with production obligations.
• Ensure all deployment activities supporting production line transfers and facility start up according to plan and budget.
• Create a culture of transformation and continuous improvement through TE’s Operating Advantage Performance system. Use of lean tools to drive operational excellence with production efficiencies, lean processes, and gross margins improvements.
• Financial oversite with each manufacturing location and Region. Ability to develop a challenging and achievable financial plan and deliver to that expectation.
• Develop and maintain programs and policies to ensure a highly effective and motivated workforce; evaluate training needs and develop training and development plans to support high-performance teams.
• Observe company, local, regional, and national environmental regulations in all company operations.
• Lead the promotion and use of the quality policy to satisfy customers and continuously improve product and services.
• Challenge and drive the regional Procurement and Supply Chain team to lean replenishment programs with key suppliers to reduce lead time and increase customer delivery.   Drive cost reductions to meet annual Material Productivity goals, and drive supplier improvement plans with supplier quality, as well as drive the appropriate level of flexibility within the supply chain that supports our customers dominant buying behavior. .
• Manage appropriate and necessary outside resources to ensure the annual business plan and planned projects are realized and financial and performance targets are achieved.
• Other projects and initiatives assigned by the Operations VP which are not limited by the items listed above.
• Utilize a balanced scorecard approach to deliver the expected results in Safety, service ( delivery and quality), Productivity ( labor, material, logistics and other variable), Inventory and cash flow, while developing and enhancing our most valuable resource – people. 
• Support and deliver NPI into the operations with a flawless handoff from the Engineering teams. 
   

Alignment With TE SET Objectives

Strategy

• Responsible for developing and exec