Senior Director, Fort Smith Operations

Sr. Director, Operations

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Sr. Director, Operations to support our Fort Smith manufacturing location. This role is critical to establish strategic direction and action plans for Bottling, Material Handling, Engineering / Maintenance and factory system to support the site and regional strategy. The Sr. Director will partner to ensure the site is adhering to regulatory and compliance, export operations, and logistics execution.

This role will work to ensure compliance and excellence in Customer Service, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Product, Safety, Environmental and Employee Health & Safety. This senior leadership position will be responsible for challenging existing norms, leading change initiatives and delivering projects on time and within budget. The role will focus on developing organizational and people capabilities to maximize business objectives and results, ensure sustainable succession planning and employee engagement. Alongside with team development the role will have a strong focused on continuous improvement, cross functional communication and cooperation between functions to maximize site opportunity and profitability

The ideal candidate has a solid understanding of manufacturing operations and supply chain with a proven track record of high levels of effective partnership across a cross functional team. This individual is expected to foster continuous transformation, shaping processes and culture that together improves the organization's operational effectiveness as well as its capacity for change while maintaining / enhancing employee engagement. The Sr. Director, Operations for Fort Smith will be responsible for end-to-end operations enabling organizational growth ambitions.

Major Responsibilities / Accountabilities :

• Lead / coach salaried leadership, through creation of development plans tailored to individual employees, towards continuous improvement to enable high-performing team which maximize engagement and performance.
• Builds high performance work groups focused on customer service and delivering results. Inspires and motivates employees to achieve performance levels and potential through highly developed coaching skills, communication skills and by ensuring proper development training.
• Develop department culture that fosters teamwork, fast pace, training, effective communication, accountability and high individual performance culture.
• Utilize training matrix to ensure all employees are trained on company policies, safety programs, regulatory standards and ISO work instructions as defined by company standards.
• Manage drawback program liaison with PRUSA Tax
• Strong cross functional collaboration to ensure customs compliance for imports and exports of bulk goods, dry goods, case goods, equipment, and samples.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks related to regulatory compliance and supply chain disruptions.
• Strong cross functional export operational excellence partnership, ensuring timely and compliant delivery of goods to international markets.
• Liaise with regulatory bodies to ensure compliance with export regulations.
• Strong cross functional partnership to optimize export processes to enhance efficiency and reduce costs.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with key international customers and stakeholders.
• Implement world class manufacturing techniques in pursuit of continuous improvement.
• Drive production performance to achieve targeted improvements and high level KPI targets.
• Leads the effort to achieve stretch business results by being a champion of Continuous Improvement utilizing Lean Manufacturing tools, specifically pertaining to changeovers, first hour efficiency, OEE and cost per case.
• Utilize current and emerging technology to drive automation and production efficiency. Lead technical decisions regarding equipment purchases, quality capabilities, efficiency capability studies.
• Ensure compliance with TTB regulations, including labeling, fill levels, waste management, and domestic excise duties.
• Work closely with logistics and plan to improve efficiency and ensure inventory targets are met without compromising customer service levels.
• Ensure compliance with all OHSA standards. Ensure all aspects of ISO18001, 9001, 2200 and 14001 are delivered on time.
• Drive improvement in the facility's Operations Excellence progress as defined by Group.
• Lead SROG engagement between markets and NADL
• Collaboration with Regional SCC and PRNA supply chain
• Drive continuous improvement in NADL Supply Chain through collaboration with SC Excellence
• Manage financial planning and financial performance for Supply Chain NADL
• Collaborate with PRHQ Supply Chain and collaborate with global brand companies

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