Executive Director, Operations

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Job Title

Executive Director, Operations

Pay Grade

M7

Job Description

The Executive Director of Walker Die Casting Operations sets strategic direction and oversees all aspects of the die casting and component machining efforts at site. This role is responsible for ongoing operations, internal use component insourcing initiatives, strategic external business growth, and overall site performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain dependable supply to all internal and external customer groups.

• Implement Allison component insourcing launch strategies over multi-year period.

• Develop and implement external growth strategies to fully use available site capacity.

• Develop and fo4ster continuous improvement culture to ensure year over year metrics improvement.

• Collaborate with internal and external customer groups on continuous improvement and new product launch activity, to achieve required cost and timing deliverables.

• Collaborate with internal and external customers toward great outcome for everyone and Best-In-Class performance solutions for both parties.

• Understand where site lags industry standards and develop and implement short- and long-term improvement plans.

• Develop and implement to annual and multi-year business plans, and accurately forecast updates as conditions evolve.

• Mentor workforce to achieve professional and career growth.

• Assess workforce for best fit roles and responsibilities, recruit personnel that address identified resource gaps, and refine organizational structures to best support business function and goals.

• Key member of the Operations Leadership Team that directs reviews of overall site performance and provides support and leadership to achieve overall Company goals and objectives.

Key Performance Measures

• Manufacturing performance KPI's (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Environmental, etc.)

• Revenue & margin target achievement

• Sales $ / labor hour worked

• Working capital % of sales

• Local, State, Federal regulatory site compliance

Competencies and Behaviors:

• Driven by commitment to excellence, while holding to Allison's values of integrity and teamwork in the way we accomplish our work.

• Focus on customer success as a means to enable and ensure individual and overall Corporate successes.

• Address challenges and problems with recommendations or solutions.

• Be open-minded, creative, innovation and collaborative in times of critical need.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree - Preferred Science or Engineering

• MBA Preferred

Experience:

• 15 Years in a manufacturing organization, with knowledge of die casting and machining processes preferred.

• Ideally 3 or more years as part of a die casting operation.

Primary Location

Lewisburg, TN

Additional Locations

Allison Transmission is an equal opportunity employer. We have opportunities for all qualified applicants regardless of age, race, color, sex, religion, creed, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

If you are an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran requiring assistance and/or reasonable accommodations reviewing any of the careers information, please contact us at ~~~ .

Please note that Allison Transmission will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Allison Transmission will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.

Allison Transmission is the world's largest manufacturer of commercial-duty automatic transmissions and hybrid propulsion systems. Our products are specified by more than 300 of the world's leading vehicle manufacturers and are used in a range of market sectors-from bus, refuse and emergency to construction, distribution and defense.

Allison was founded in 1915 in Indianapolis, Indiana, where the company's global headquarters is still located. We have approximately 1,400 dealer and distributor locations, employ more than 2,700 people around the world and our international presence spans more than 80 countries.

Allison Transmission is an equal opportunity employer. We have opportunities for all qualified applicants regardless of age, race, color, sex, religion, creed, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

If you are an individual with a disability or a disabled veteran requiring assistance and/or reasonable accommodations reviewing any of the careers information, please contact us at ~~~.

Please note that Allison Transmission will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Allison Transmission will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.