Operations | Los Angeles, CA | Full Time
Ecosense is a rapidly growing technology company based in Los Angeles. Our purpose is to invent, inspire and transform how we experience light. Our strategy is audacious, and our expectations are high. We are pioneering in the areas of color science, photometry and mixed reality. Using the sun and the moon as inspiration, we are using our inventions to enhance our industry’s understanding of light and materially transform expectations for artificial light.
We have been fortunate to light some of the most coveted spaces on earth and to be recognized by the likes of Red Dot for innovation and design, as well as Inc 500 and Deloitte for consistently making their fastest growing companies lists.
Ecosense hires curious, collaborative, autonomous and smart people who also happen to be very nice. We have a passion for tackling the unknown, solving hard problems, and answering questions that haven’t been explored.
Primary Role and Responsibility
The Sr. Director of Operations is the strategic leader across all NPI, manufacturing engineering, estimating, procurement, supply chain, logistics, quality, and worldwide manufacturing operations. Reporting directly to the VP of Operations, the Sr. Director of Operations provides strategic and tactical direction of the operations team in line with our mission, vision, values, strategic plan, and financial objectives.
In this role, the individual oversees and directs all operations while delivering best practices in lean manufacturing and strategic sourcing in ways that grow revenue, profitability and product quality. The Sr. Director of Operations provides guidance and leadership to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the existing production operations, and is fully responsible for its technical and commercial operations.
- Streamline workflow and create a team environment to increase productivity
- Optimize of inventory networks, plant line capacity, processing planning capabilities and systems
- Participate in strategic planning activities.
- Identify capability and/or capacity gaps in existing staffing, equipment, and processes
- Propose solutions to support the strategic initiatives, including timing, cost, and ROI (when applicable)
- Collaborate to develop capital budget requirements, and manage the costs of manufacturing, including labor, equipment expenses and capital
- Contribute to the annual budget and determines operational expenditures and then manages the budget and cost controls in overall operations
- Ensures alignment of processes and resolves operational conflicts
- Review and modify existing equipment and production methods to reduce costs and improve quality.
- Develop and implement effective quality control programs to ensure that quality standards and objectives are met.
- Direct manufacturing operations through establishment and implementation of best-practice policies and procedures
- Take a strategic view of the organization and facilitates the creation of a company-wide culture and use methodologies to drive core/strategic processes to respond to the needs of customers with minimal waste.
- Provide leadership/mentoring/training to all levels of the organization on the use, practice, and implementation strategy of Lean methodology and tools.
- Drive effective on-going communications throughout the organization on the implementation of lean thinking to help drive culture change and advance lean competencies; provide clear and regular communication regarding the LPC’s goals and objectives of the lean thinking and to provide a system for measurement of results of lean activities on an ongoing basis.
- Gathers and prioritizes projects and allocate resources according to diverse criteria such as strategic importance, cost/benefit, likelihood of success, stakeholder engagement.
Required Skills/Qualifications:
- BS in engineering or science or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 10 years’ management experience in operations and worldwide manufacturing
- Experience managing manufacturing highly-quality products
- Experience designing and implementing manufacturing processes
- Experience defining operational strategy and leading implementation initiatives
Excellent organizational, leadership, motivational, analytical problem solving and strategic thinking skills - Ability to build cross-functional partnerships and engage in and lead cross-functional teams and initiatives
- Strong change management skills and experience
- Must have working knowledge of facilities equipment, operations and management
- Experience with developing and monitoring production strategies and performance metrics
- Understand budget development and monitoring with knowledge of P&L for operations
- Capable of problem solving, decision making and failure analysis
- A self-motivated leader & a team player.
All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, or covered veteran status.