Precision Castparts - Houston, TX
posted 4 months ago
The Director of Operations/Plant Manager at Wyman Gordon Houston plays a pivotal role in steering the operational success of the facility, reporting directly to the WG Houston VP. This position is critical in the heavy manufacturing sector, particularly within the aerospace industry, and encompasses a range of leadership responsibilities aimed at driving financial performance, implementing lean methodologies, ensuring safety initiatives, and fostering continuous improvement across all operational facets. The role requires a strategic mindset to employ right-to-left thinking and drive financial outcomes, ensuring daily tracking and adherence to budget while adjusting short-term plans to accommodate revenue dynamics. In addition to financial oversight, the Director will be responsible for specific profit improvement initiatives, including raw, WIP, and finished inventory reduction, changeover time reduction, and scrap/rework elimination. The position also emphasizes the importance of lean manufacturing initiatives and continuous improvement, ensuring a plant-wide commitment to the successful launch of new product lines. The Director will lead the implementation of a schedule-based production manning model to proactively predict and support direct labor requirements, driving consistent use of structured problem-solving methods and robust data gathering and analysis tools to support measurable results. Long-term objectives include leading plant-wide development to better understand and effectively employ industry-standard concepts, maintaining a customer-focused continuous improvement paradigm, and championing systematic continuous improvement of process capabilities and costs. The Director will also focus on employee development, ensuring a culture of excellence and growth within the manufacturing environment.