Director, Operations CXT Precast

This Position...

The Director of Operations works closely with and under the president. The Director of Operation's duties, roles and responsibilities are dynamic. The Director of Operations is responsible for optimizing operation costs, ensuring safety, financial performance, and achieving quality. This role supports the team, coaches, and promotes individual staff development, and acts as a company representative internally and externally, and works closely with Corporate shared services to ensure processes and procedures that are consistent with LB Foster's principles. Other responsibilities include managing operations, planning how both material and human resources are to be utilized, and leading transformational change.

Some examples of the work you might do includes....

• Managing the operations of the business focusing the company on the fundamentals of sound business methodologies and continuous improvement.

• Evaluate the performance of the organization in meeting objectives and determine where costs can be reduced, what can be improved and what should be changed.

• Work with executive leadership to establish and provide direction for short- and long-range organizational goals and objectives.

• Driving and continuing to build and nurture an aggressive performance-oriented culture.

• Strategically adjusts plant activities, policies, and practices to meet or exceed key performance metrics and customer satisfaction goals.

• Continue to upgrade company processes and procedures to reach supply chain synergies between the various plants, including inventory management.

• Directing operational excellence through "continuous improvement" activities in engineering, procurement, and production management, with the aim to drive additional lean manufacturing initiatives and cut production costs.

• Interacting with plant leadership and the President providing timely financial and operating reporting.

• Continuing to develop, mentor, and build a first-class team as the business expands its geographic footprint and drive a cultural shift in the company towards operational excellence.

What Do You Need...

• A bachelor's degree in engineering, Business, or related required.

• 10 years of professional experience with demonstrated progressive levels of management experience

• Technical precast manufacturing knowledge.

• Six Sigma certification a plus.

• Exemplary interpersonal and communication skills.

• Strong organizational, decision making, negotiating, problem solving and interpersonal skills

• High-ethical standards demonstrated by the individual's reputation for high integrity in business and the ability to set that tone for the entire business.

• Strong understanding of P&L.

• Can lead effectively by driving objectives and results while maintaining the "people first" culture and engaging others.

• The ability to demonstrate knowledge of Lean principles, Six-sigma and manufacturing best practice

Core Competencies:

• Strategic

• Critical Thinking

• Public Speaking

• Judgement

• Decision Making

• Complex Problem Solving

• Collaboration

The Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision benefits the first day of the month after hire

• Market-leading 401(k) program with company match, no vesting period

• 10 paid holidays per year and PTO accrual plan

• Paid Parental Leave

• 100% tuition reimbursement

• Career development and advancement opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)