Manufacturing Operations Director
HRL Laboratories, LLC
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Camarillo • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $204,665 - $262,243 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Lead and direct the core operational processes for a high-growth, strategic business and enable efficient growth and execution at scale
- Lead a multidisciplinary team to stand up and transfer manufacturing capacity from a laboratory environment into a new facility capable of performing R&D alongside medium rate manufacturing
- Create, monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess operational performance and make data-driven decisions
- Identify areas for improvement in operational processes and implement changes to increase efficiency and productivity
- Manage budgets, control costs, and ensure financial efficiency within the operations department
- Oversee relationships with suppliers and vendors to ensure quality and cost-effectiveness
- Ensure all operations comply with relevant laws, regulations, and company policies
- Ensure that operational activities align with customer satisfaction goals and address any issues that arise
- Prepare and present reports on operational performance to senior management
- Provide single-threaded leadership for operational aspects of growing and scaling a semiconductor products business
- Oversee and optimize materials planning and execution, including forecasting and product mix management for both pre-production and production-released products
- Identify and import best-known methods for customer configuration management for a high-complexity product family
- Work with supply chain, product engineering, and manufacturing operations to streamline and optimize production supply chain flows and drive cycle time reduction
- Represent and champion operations management in new product development, strategic planning and product portfolio decisions
- Organize and facilitate monthly, quarterly, and annual operational reviews and strategic planning activities
- Lead and manage the operations team, including hiring, training, and performance evaluation
- Ensure an adequate base of talent and hone best practices that lead industry capability
Requirements
- A background in semiconductor product engineering with an emphasis on packaging camera sensors/image sensors with full lifecycle responsibility (from NPI launch to EOL)
- Innovative, resourceful leader that can prioritize, invent and simplify, and deliver results in a high-velocity business
- Strong understanding of operational processes and best practices
- Proficiency in using operational management software and tools
- Ability to collaborate with peers and independently multitask, prioritize, make high-level decisions, meet aggressive deadlines, and communicate results, trade-offs, and decisions to all stakeholders
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related fields
- 15+ years of relevant semiconductor experience
- Master’s degree in engineering, or MBA is a plus
- U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Security Clearance
- Active security clearance is a plus
Benefits
- bonus
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Hard skills
operational processeskey performance indicatorsbudget managementcost controlmaterials planningforecastingproduct mix managementcustomer configuration managementcycle time reductionsemiconductor product engineering
Soft skills
leadershipinnovationresourcefulnessprioritizationcommunicationmultitaskingdecision-makingcollaborationperformance evaluationstrategic planning
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineeringMaster’s degree in engineeringMBAU.S. Government Security Clearance