VP - Manufacturing

SUMMARY:


The Vice President, Manufacturing will lead all Wholesale manufacturing activities in a manner that is consistent with the company’s principles around Atrium performance, safety, ethics, values, culture, and strategies. This position will accomplish objectives through leading a multi-disciplined team to achieve operational excellence. This includes including on time and short turn around delivery, quality assurance, and productivity improvement/cost reductions.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The primary mission will be developing and executing an integrated manufacturing strategy, which reliably delivers low cost, high quality products in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.
• Work cross-functionally and proactively to plan, direct, drive operations, and manufacturing strategy across multiple manufacturing locations.
• Work closely with the CEO and key members of the management team to set agendas for achieving tactical and strategic goals.
• The Vice President Manufacturing will be a confident, pragmatic leader, and a strong communicator.
• Establish, deploy and monitor a world class manufacturing approach that ensures environmentally responsible operation, and safety performance excellence as well as optimizes customer satisfaction, efficiency, employee relations and performance measures.
• In partnership with senior management, the candidate will enhance and produce stronger, system-wide processes for predicting and measuring performance in all business areas.
• Accountable for capital and operating budgets and working capital levels.
• Maximize the competitive advantage, performance, business contribution, and asset value of the portfolio of manufacturing resources.
• Increase reliability and utilization of plants.
• Develop, retain and motivate high performing teams and individual talent.
• Shall direct all manufacturing support efforts including quality control, supply chain, plant layout, equipment selection and manufacturing support.
• Formulate manufacturing policies to insure consistency of manufacturing procedures.
• Implement new manufacturing technologies to enhance quality and drive down costs and set strategic direction for future product and process improvements within manufacturing.
• Develop strategic alliances to enhance the capabilities of the company and improve time to market and cost characteristics.
• Implement computer based cost accounting, ERP, production planning and configuration management systems to monitor and control all aspects of the manufacturing process on a real time basis while trying to dramatically reduce manufacturing costs of goods as the business scales.
• Knows the business and the mission-critical technical and functional skills needed to do the job.
• Understands various types of business propositions and understands how businesses operate in general.
• Learns new methods and technologies easily.
• Ensure a safe working environment including compliance with regulations.
  
  
  

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:

• The Vice President, Manufacturing should be resourceful, possess a strong work ethic, be innovative, decisive, and possess the ability to create a sense of mission and attentiveness to current and future business requirements.
• The successful candidate has strong leadership skills in mentoring and coaching with a proven ability to develop organizational capability including hiring, training and developing employees.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive manufacturing leadership is mandatory.
• Able and willing to change the status quo and effectively champion change.
• Multi-functional background (engineering, operations, project management, materials management) is preferable.
• Good familiarity with labor-intensive settings operating at high volumes and rapid product turnaround in response to customer demands.
• Ability of using collaborative, assertive, mature management style in achieving win-win results.
• Self motivated and result oriented.
• Establish, deploy and monitor a world-class manufacturing approach that ensures environmentally responsible operation, and safety performance excellence as well as optimizes customer satisfaction, efficiency, employee relations and performance measures.
• Lead and nurture the people of the manufacturing organization to excel as both individuals and groups.
• He/She must be proactive with labour relations, recruitment, training & development, succession planning and teamwork.
• Achieve production and operating cost targets.
• The candidates should have a passion for delivering results together with people, and a natural talent for building trust and earning respect both internally and externally.
• The successful candidate will lead by example, demonstrating the highest safety and ethical standards along with integrity.
• A track record of transforming a strategy into an actionable plan that delivers measurable business results.
• Skills to manage the expense and capital budgets associated with manufacturing to achieve targets that influence EPS, income, cash flow, capital employed, and asset value.
• Proven ability to think strategically and grasp the final implications of operating decisions.