Senior Director of Operations, Optical Systems

🔥 16 hours ago

🐊 Florida, New Hampshire – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote 🗻 New Hampshire – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Operations

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G&H (Gooch & Housego)

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1948

🎖️ Defense

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

Defense • Healthcare • Consulting

G&H (Gooch & Housego) is a global leader in photonics engineering and manufacturing, providing advanced solutions across a variety of markets including industry, telecoms, aerospace, defense, space, and life sciences. With over 70 years of experience, G&H excels in designing, engineering, and manufacturing high-quality photonic products such as acousto-optics, electro-optics, fiber optics, and precision optics. The company is committed to enabling customer innovation and technology advancement through their expertise in photonics, offering solutions that enhance system efficiency and effectiveness. G&H operates with a focus on mission-critical technology that requires precision and reliability, serving markets with demanding environments like aerospace and defense, as well as rapidly evolving sectors like life sciences.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across the Tampa and Keene manufacturing facilities • Develop and execute operational strategies to strengthen manufacturing capabilities, optimize capacity and resources, and improve business performance • Establish operating priorities, performance expectations, accountability, and consistent execution against safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity objectives • Lead Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, operational excellence, and continuous improvement initiatives • Establish standardized operating processes, performance management routines, and operational KPIs across both facilities • Partner with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, commercial leadership, Finance, and Business Unit leadership • Strengthen manufacturing readiness, support new product introductions, resolve operational challenges, and improve customer delivery performance • Drive manufacturing costs, labor efficiency, productivity, inventory, capital expenditures, budgets, and financial targets • Lead capacity planning, resource optimization, and capital investment recommendations • Evaluate operational performance, identify risks and improvement opportunities, and implement corrective actions • Lead, coach, and develop site operations leadership teams • Build organizational capability, succession readiness, accountability, and high performance • Champion safety and quality culture and ensure environmental, health, safety, and regulatory compliance • Foster collaboration across sites and functions, employee engagement, and organizational effectiveness • Travel extensively to the Keene, New Hampshire and Tampa, Florida locations

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or a related discipline required • MBA or advanced technical degree preferred • 15+ years progressive manufacturing leadership experience, including significant responsibility for multisite operations within complex, highly engineered manufacturing environments • Experience leading operations within aerospace, defense, photonics, precision optics, or similarly sophisticated manufacturing industries • Proven ability to develop and execute operational strategies delivering measurable improvements in profitability, productivity, quality, delivery, and manufacturing efficiency • Strong expertise in Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, operational excellence, and continuous improvement methodologies • Experience managing manufacturing budgets, capital investments, cost structures, and operational performance against financial targets • Experience developing and implementing operational KPIs, performance dashboards, and structured accountability frameworks across multiple manufacturing locations • Understanding of production planning, capacity management, supply chain integration, manufacturing systems, and quality management requirements • Ability to lead, develop, and influence high-performing teams across geographically dispersed operations, including through organizational change and business growth • Strategic thinking, communication, problem-solving, and executive-level influencing skills • U.S. person assessment may be required for access to items and technical data controlled under U.S. export laws and regulations

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities and nondiscrimination protections • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge photonics technologies • Collaboration with skilled engineering and manufacturing professionals • Dynamic, growth-oriented work environment