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Company
Our client, a manufacturer of custom electro-mechanical equipment, seeks a Vice President of Operations and Engineering to scale these two functional areas which better serve an expanding marketplace as well as meet the needs of larger more sophisticated organizations.

Position Summary
Provide leadership to all operations and engineering activities. Responsible for ensuring the development, production and delivery of high quality, reliable, market-leading electro-mechanical products, in a cost effective and timely manner. Participate on the Senior Leadership Team of company and responsible for strategic operations and engineering systems.

Major Job Functions

Leadership/Functional Management (40%)

Lead the definition and documentation of corporate policies and standards for: Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Engineering.
Ensure cost effective, technically superior, and timely solutions to market and customer requirements.
Develop and implement mid and long-term operations and engineering strategies and initiatives.
Create a work culture that drives change management, a highly supportive work environment and a productive work environment.
Instrumental in driving a culture change for engineering and operations teams that work to meet market demand.
Ensure that the Company maintains technology leadership in its products and works closely with sales to implement new products and applications of current products.
Provide key support and analysis for corporate merger and acquisition opportunities.

Operations (30%)

Drive continuous improvement processes throughout the supply chain, achieving lower cost of goods sold, improved product quality/lower warranty costs, reduced inventory investment, and improved lead time for products and services.
Oversee all operations activities, including development of processes and standards for new product manufacturing engineering, material purchasing, production/work-flow layout, employee technical training, manufacturing efficiency, quality of finished goods and shipping to meet internal and external requirements.
Ensure maximum manufacturing efficiency and effectiveness in implementing best practices from internal operations and external processes in all phases of the product lifecycle.

Engineering (30%)

Oversee engineering resources including supporting sales and marketing generation of new products, development, and implementation of standard processes where appropriate and work closely with manufacturing to ensure seamless transition from product design to manufacturing.
Drive innovation and creativity throughout for both new product development and work effectiveness and develop methods to recognize and promote creativity.
Oversee new product development to maximize current technologies, materials, and processes.
Works with patent attorney to promote protection of intellectual property.

Immediate Challenges
The immediate challenges for this position include:

Ability to scale the business in operations and engineering to meet market demand in both the healthcare and cloud storage ergonomic transport markets.
Strong leadership including coaching, mentoring, change management and managerial emphasis.
To gain effectiveness and efficiency in the product lifecycle from design to shipment.
Build a robust supply chain system using a new ERP system, improved processes, and deeper relationships with existing and new vendors.
Strategic Product Life Cycle systems

Critical Selection Criteria

Minimum of 10 years of experience with at least 5 years of leadership experience in the management of operations and engineering functions
Proven ability to introduce and implement operations and engineering processes and systems that drive consistency and quality of product design and manufacturing
Experience in building high performing engineering/production/supply chain teams that work collaboratively throughout the company
Proven ability to develop and execute functional strategy as well as having participated in corporate strategic planning
Large and small company experience preferred
Experience working in operations and engineering within that required significant change management with tenured employees and significant market opportunities
Proven ability to be a strategic and change leader
Bachelors’ Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering with MBA preferred.

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