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Mechanical Engineering
Director of Manufacturing
- Led focus group on manufacturing methods which resulting in on-time improvement from 62% to 97%
- Formed and led continuous improvement teams that provided $100k in annual savings during first year
- Introduced Lean Manufacturing which led to retention of largest customer
- Set-up POU tooling project resulted in 35% set up reduction
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Geography
Business Administration
Director of Manufacturing
Directed manufacturing operations for local start-up company. Responsible for policy and procedures focused on safe and efficient operation of multiple manufacturing systems and processes, covering highly flammable processes and high pressure equipment. Accountable for daily extraction and packaging operations. Managed 11 employees.
- Commissioned and qualified complex CO2 Extractor, created production flow for the new processing method.
- Managed several projects focused on upgrading facility infrastructure and optimizing equipment performance.
- Created training tools to ensure employees were aware of safety risks and proper risk mitigation methods, ensuring compliance with state and city regulations.
- Met with state representatives and conducted an informal audit of the facility. Worked with auditors to identify, understand, and mitigate safety hazards.
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Architecture
Lean Accounting
Plastic Engineering Society
Director of Manufacturing Engineering
Responsible for supervising and directing of; one Manufacturing Engineering Manager, one Production Engineering Manager, one Maintenance/Facilities Manager and six Special Project Manufacturing Engineers.
- Directed kaizen activities to improve the manufacturablity of current product lines through out manufacturing.
- Lead TPM efforts to improve equipment uptime and extend current equipment life by improved PM and operator training/support.
- Guided plant and departmental layouts, capital equipment identification, justification and purchases, plant layouts and expansions, design and purchase of all tooling and equipment.
- In addition, lead the design and construction of the second Manufacturing facility and identification and installation of the new facility equipment for the scheduled April 2000 opening on time as well as under budget.
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Apparel Design And Merchandising
Business Management
Director of Manufacturing
Manage all inventory and production for this blank apparel supplier. Planning, purchasing, and oversight of all production processes--textile converting and cut and sew factories.
- Increased order volume by maintaining higher levels of inventory on key items and adding companion products to line in all color offerings. Increased customer satisfaction by providing order status reports and open communication channels regarding special make up orders.
- Reduced cost by renegotiating raw material and processing contracts with vendors. Bringing costs in alignment with Market.
- Implemented a quality control system to track and identify source of problem for all 2nd quality product, holding appropriate vendors accountable for cost.
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Advanced Manufacturing
Director of Manufacturing Operations
Operations leader responsible for producing millions of chemical reagent tests for medical applications, D.O.D., international and private label customers. Led all aspects Manufacturing Operations including production, scheduling, QA, international supply chain, logistics, inventory, purchasing and capital investments. Managed build out, design and equipment procurement for an additional manufacturing facility, more than doubling existing production capacity. Validated all new processes and equipment.
- Project Manager for enterprise-wide UDI system per 2016 FDA mandate for medical devices.
- Reduced inventory by 35% using Lean and JIT, freeing hundreds of thousands in working capital.
- Worked with R&D and Business Unit to design, develop and manufacture two new product lines.
- Introduced and implemented Lean, leading numerous effective Kaizen and 5S events.
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Manufacturing Management
Director of Manufacturing
Setup a manufacturing facility to produce full scale robotic exhibits for the Zoo, Museum, and Theme Park industries. 60,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant developed over 700 exhibits and numerous metal, wood, and plastic support items for the exhibits.
- Managed / Directed 40+ production personnel.
- Scheduled personnel for all projects.
- Worked with engineer as the composites Engineer.
- Designed and Manufactured fully articulated full scale robotic exhibits.
- Exhibited in the 'Smithsonian Museum"
- Shown high academic accredited exhibits in over 20 countries.
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Director of Manufacturing
- Coached and mentored young manufacturing group with limited water treatment and piping/electrical experience to build equipment, containers and trailers used around the world
- Implemented B-31.3 manufacturing program for manufactured piping systems
- Started design review process MDR (Manufacture Design Review Meeting) to reduce errors and increase manufacturing efficiencies
- Updated production process, quality control and labeling documentation requirements for EPA Registered Biocides
- Implemented KPI system for project build hours
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Business Administration
Director of Manufacturing
Responsible for managing all domestic and import manufacturing of women's clothing line.
- Coordinated development of internal clothing line
- Responsible for costing and placement of all products in appropriate factories insuring quality product and on-time delivery.
- Created Excel spreadsheet that projected style quantities minimizing access inventory.
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Bachelor of Science
Master of Business Administration
Director of Manufacturing
- Oversee day-to-day manufacturing of $250M sport yacht & yacht facility
- Lead team of 6 direct & workforce of 555 employees which include manufacturing, quality & engineering
- Responsible for the safety of all personnel
- Responsible for facility profitability including productivity, S&E spend and warranty
- Implemented New Model Integration phase-gate program management system & integrated 2 new models
- Implemented process & systems to improve productivity levels from 75-85% resulting in annualized savings of over $2.0M
- Established pull systems/Kanbans that reduced inventory by 25%
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Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical / Manufacturing Engineering
Director of Manufacturing Support
- Manage Equipment Engineering, Repair & Maintenance, Industrial Engineering, & Training teams (>80 employee's) as well as managing significant strategic initiatives. Migrated to this strategic role after promoting two succession management candidates groomed to promotion after 2-5 years.
- Managed all Capital of >$260M over 12 years. Includes: plant improvements, capacity expansions, cost reductions driven by ROI on capital needed, and new products requiring capital.
- Created cost reduction plan requiring a modest capital expenditure with a 22% reduction / ROI of 2-3 years. Also led team to cut variable costs by reducing consumption using lean techniques and almost doubling productivity over 1 year. Status: currently at 16% reduction and still implementing more improvements.
- Created master plan to reduce cost by 26% with no capital required.
- Coordinate M&A activity that results in process transfer to Texas Facility. Involved in P&L and cost analysis, manpower, schedule as well as technology transfer.
- Led team towards company objectives of Zero Defects. Projects used lean techniques specifically FMEA and CIM (Computer Integrated Manufacturing) to target key tools to improve yield and cost goals noted.
- Created a comprehensive detailed capacity model including mixed flows across 3 separate factories with some shared tools. Model integrates forecast looking out 3 years and identifies both hard and soft bottlenecks. Used model to drive engineering teams to improve throughput of existing tools saving $12-15M in capital avoidance without any impact to stated capacity during just one ramp.
- Created detailed cost/consumption tool to lead engineering teams to further cost reduction activities. Tool when tied to APICS S&OP (Sales and Operations Plan) demand plan lowered inventory levels with fewer ITP's (interruptions to production).
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Business Administration
Director of Manufacturing
- Gained responsibility for the operation of the oil mill and byproducts operations, and the rest of the inshell operations consisting of the cleaning plant and bulk inshell packaging
- Produced reports and presented KPI's to the senior mgmt team at daily meeting during the harvest season
- Member of the company contract bargaining committee for negotiations with the local Teamsters union
- Assisted with the development and implementation of the company's decertification campaign against the local Teamsters union
- In addition to maintaining the responsibility of the Stockton plant, undertook the management of our leased nut roasting operation located in Hughson, CA
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Industrial Engineering
Director of Manufacturing
Overseeing all the Operations of the Company
- Leads Production, Process-Improvement, Estimating, Inventory - Control, Scheduling, Maintenance, Quality, Shipping and Customer Service Team.
- Responsible for Improving Operational Systems, processes and policies in support of organizations mission - specifically, support better management reporting, information flow and management, business process and organizational planning
- Responsible for implementation of 5S throughout the facility.
- Introduction of Automation in our operations to increase efficiencies - on going.
- Implementation of Central Packing Stations - on going.
- Management of budget in coordination with the CEO/CFO.
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Business Operations Management
International Commerce And Policy
Director of Manufacturing
Increased productivity by 30 % by implementing new processes while decreasing labor by 18 % and turnover rate from 35 % to 15% within first three months.
- Oversee and manage supervisory staff in the departments of production and maintenance. Conduct semi-annual performance and compensation reviews with supervisors and staff. Manage performance throughout the year and conduct feedback sessions and re-align expectations as often as necessary.
- Manage COGS and MO budgets and review accounting ledgers monthly to ensure that you're within budget for the year. Achieve actual YOY savings in respective budgets; enact cost savings initiatives.
- Oversee and manage production KPI's, standards, and efficiencies. Ensure that standards are continually being met on a frequent basis with regard to direct material, direct labor, and yields. Manage and communicate all deviations accordingly in order to control weekly deviations and monthly cost impacts to budgets/ledgers.
- Oversee and manage maintenance KPI's, standards, and efficiencies. Ensure that standards are continually being met on a frequent basis with regard to technician idle time, mean time between repairs, spare parts contingencies, NetFacilities data accuracy, etc. Manage and communicate all deviations accordingly in order to control weekly deviations and monthly cost impacts to budgets/ledgers.
- Understand and control operational risk and lead the implementation of risk management and control initiatives within the maintenance department in regards to major equipment and personnel contingencies and their causes of high unit costs thereof.
- Oversee the coordination of annual audits, certifications, quality assurance and control deviations, organoleptic deviations, incidents and complaints, etc. to ensure that quality standards are continually being met and adhered to.
- Oversee the coordination of any employee resourcing, safety, claims, employer practices, training, and/or turnover initiatives/improvements. Cooperate to adopt a zero tolerance policy for employee safety issues and ensure that staff and supervisors are continually adhering to this standard.
- Be the subject matter expert for all variables that affect production; process/equipment improvements, unit costs, yields, scheduling, major equipment contingencies/failures, etc.
- Perform other duties as requested by your direct manager or senior management.
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Electronics Engineering Technology
Business Administration
Business Management
Director of Manufacturing / Operations Manager
- Member of Omega's Executive Leadership Team helping make key strategic decisions to align company goals and objectives.
- Changing company culture to embrace safety as a number one priority.
- Using Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost metrics to drive best business practices.
- 0 recordable injuries by engaging employees to make safety their top priority.
- Manager over facilities, electrical, mechanical, supply chain, inventory and shipping/receiving personnel.
- Working cross-functionally to achieve company cost savings objectives.
- Coaching line leads on capacity planning and work order planning.
- Drive maximum line efficiency by managing labor and improving process flow.
- Facilitate Kaizen events to improve productivity.
- Developed a Lean Road Map to help transition OMI into a Lean Manufacturing facility.
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Director of Manufacturing Duties and Responsibilities
Directors of manufacturing must effectively carry out a wide range of tasks while also supervising those who report to them. Based on job listings we analyzed, directors of manufacturing have the following core responsibilities:
Develop Strategy Directors of manufacturing determine the strategic direction of a company's manufacturing unit, setting the plan for products, processes, and factory relationships with the goal of increasing efficiency and profitability.
Manage Teams A key part of the role is managing teams that handle engineering, quality control, and production in order to ensure the smooth execution of projects. Because directors of manufacturing are responsible for implementation, they meet regularly with managers and set key indicators for evaluating performance.
Implement Systems Manufacturing is extremely structured and process-based, and directors of manufacturing are in charge of creating or refining systems to minimize error and bolster productivity. They may experiment with methods for improvement and adopt approaches such as Lean 6, Sigma, or JIT (just-in-time).
Contribute to Product Development Directors of manufacturing collaborate closely with designers and engineers in the product development phase. They are especially active during the creation of the first prototype, since they must assess market fit, feasibility, impact on processes, and quality before devoting resources to large-scale production.
Provide Training Successful directors of manufacturing serve as coaches and mentors to employees under their supervision, providing training for important topics such as risk mitigation, safety protocols, usage of new equipment, and industry best practices.
Director of Manufacturing Skills and Qualifications
Directors of manufacturing are leaders and problem-solvers who reinforce high standards. They have a deep understanding of systems and processes, combining critical thinking with industry expertise to optimize production. Employers seek experienced candidates with at least a bachelor's degree in business or a related field and the following skills:- Strategic thinking - directors of manufacturing must be comfortable with making crucial decisions in high-pressure situations, choosing the next course of action through critical thinking and holistic analysis
- Project management - since directors of manufacturing oversee multiple projects that are large in scope, they should be organized, proactive, and good at motivating and managing teams
- Production expertise - successful directors of manufacturing are extremely knowledgeable about production in their industry, from systems and techniques to compliance standards
- Attention to detail - the smallest details can have a significant impact, whether it's a product design flaw or a lag in the supply chain, and directors of manufacturing should be alert for these, doing whatever they can to drive improvement
- Communication skills - this role requires interacting with people most of the time, so directors of manufacturing must be excellent communicators who can write and speak well, lead meetings, and maintain positive relationships with vendors
Director of Manufacturing Education and Training
Directors of manufacturing generally have a bachelor's degree in business management, engineering, finance, or a related field. However, many employers prefer to hire candidates with an advanced degree, especially an MBA. Another requirement for this position is at least five years of leadership experience in a manufacturing environment. Because this is a high-ranking role, successful candidates often already have industry expertise and can adjust quickly to a steep learning curve upon starting.
Director of Manufacturing Salary and Outlook
According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS), the median annual salary for industrial production managers, including directors of manufacturing, is around $100,000 per year. Directors of manufacturing in the 10th percentile earn $61,000 annually, while those in the 9th percentile earn more than $168,000. Employment for directors of manufacturing is expected to show minimal change through 2026, with job outlook declining by 1 percent. Automation, which mostly affects workers, may decrease the demand for managers and directors as it becomes more advanced. Another factor to consider is that directors of manufacturing operate in different industries, making it difficult to give a uniform job outlook.
Helpful Resources
We scoured the web and found several resources if you're interested in pursuing a career as a director of manufacturing:
Manufacturing.net - this digital content resource reports major news and trends in manufacturing, covering various topics from product development to economics. While its primary platform is an online magazine, it also releases regular newsletters and resource guides
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer - Toyota is a longtime leader and innovator in the manufacturing industry. This book outlines the business philosophy that turned it into the giant that it is today, along with practical, time-tested management principles
Association of Manufacturing Excellence - an organization that takes pride in its culture of learning and mentoring, AME is focused on continuous improvement in the manufacturing industry. It offers peer discussions, events and training, access to publications, and a job opportunity list. Its LinkedIn group has more than 40,000 members, from middle managers to executives
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - this novel has been praised by Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and Business Week as a must-read management book. Easily applicable to real life, the story revolves around a manager of an American manufacturing company trying to solve relatable business challenges
