Director of Manufacturing – Operational Excellence

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🔥 12 hours ago

🏈 Alabama – Remote

🏈 Alabama – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚙️ Operations

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SJE Rhombus

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1975

🏭 Manufacturing

🔧 Hardware

🤝 B2B

Manufacturing • Hardware • B2B

SJE Rhombus is a global manufacturer of control and monitoring products for the water and wastewater industries. For over 50 years it has designed and produced pump control panels, alarm systems, level monitoring solutions, float switches, pressure controls and related engineered hardware for residential, commercial, municipal, industrial and agricultural applications. The company emphasizes reliability, ease of use and quality, backing products with an industry-leading 5-year warranty.

📋 Description

• Lead SJE’s manufacturing network and drive operating improvements supporting growth, quality, delivery, and profitability • Build a standardized, scalable manufacturing model across SJE ECS sites • Lead manufacturing network development, hub-and-spoke roles, site capabilities, work-share processes, and capacity planning • Define local versus hub/shared-service manufacturing activities • Lead the Ashland hub pilot and develop business cases for expanded hub capabilities in Birmingham and a future Florida regional operations center • Align demand, capacity, scheduling, and customer commitments with Operations, Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain, Quality, and Commercial leaders • Build and lead a continuous improvement system across manufacturing locations • Standardize work instructions, routings, bills of material, quality requirements, visual management, 5S, and problem-solving methods • Establish Managing for Daily Improvement routines connecting shop-floor issues to leadership action • Lead Kaizen events and improvement projects focused on safety, quality, labor productivity, flow, lead time, rework, and on-time delivery • Develop common manufacturing metrics, definitions, targets, and escalation thresholds • Lead the manufacturing strategy and operating model for PanelConnex and other panel manufacturing businesses • Improve panel manufacturing consistency, quality, throughput, and labor efficiency • Standardize panel design-to-build processes, including engineering handoff, materials, manufacturing instructions, testing, and final acceptance • Develop and execute the manufacturing automation roadmap, including EPLAN, Smart Mounting, Smart Wiring, ModCenter, wire processing, and related production technologies • Identify automation opportunities and build capital requests and investment cases • Partner with Engineering and IT to create a digital thread from design through manufacturing, testing, and reporting • Establish common capacity-planning processes connecting bookings, backlog, labor, materials, engineering readiness, and manufacturing schedules • Lead improvement plans for manufacturing constraints, including layout, staffing, shifts, equipment, material flow, and facility utilization • Monitor and improve safety, first-pass yield, rework, on-time delivery, schedule adherence, manufacturing hours versus estimate, scrap, uptime, and test pass rate • Support site leaders with recovery plans when performance falls below target • Evaluate manufacturing footprint decisions, facility expansions, consolidations, make-versus-buy opportunities, and outsourced fabrication • Build manufacturing and continuous-improvement leadership capability • Coach site leaders, managers, engineers, and frontline teams in Lean methods, structured problem solving, standard work, and accountability • Promote safety, respect, employee engagement, ownership, and continuous improvement • Support organizational design, succession planning, and hiring • Communicate priorities and progress across manufacturing sites and leadership forums

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, Business, or a related field • 12 or more years of progressive manufacturing or operations leadership experience, including multi-site responsibility • Demonstrated success leading manufacturing transformation, Lean implementation, continuous improvement, and standardized operating systems • Experience in electrical panel manufacturing, industrial controls, engineered-to-order manufacturing, automation, or a similar technical manufacturing environment strongly preferred • Experience implementing manufacturing automation and digital manufacturing tools, including engineering-to-production workflows • Strong knowledge of Lean manufacturing, 5S, visual management, value-stream improvement, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, and operational KPI management • Experience leading capital investment assessments and delivering measurable productivity, quality, capacity, or cost improvements • Ability to lead through influence across Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, HR, and Commercial teams • Willingness to travel regularly among SJE manufacturing locations • Travel requirement of 30% - 50% • Advanced degree preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Up six (6) weeks of Flex Time Off • 8 paid holidays • Health insurance • Life insurance • Short-term disability insurance • Long-term disability insurance • Dental programs • Vision programs • Other benefit options • Competitive pay • Collaborative culture that encourages creativity and problem-solving • Professional growth opportunities

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