Director of Operations

Description:
The Director of Operations will oversee all production and facility operations at ALIGN Precision Philadelphia, ensuring seamless execution across precision machining, assembly, and cleanroom environments. This role will serve as the operational hub, coordinating with the Director of Planning & Delivery and Director of Quality to deliver on customer commitments while driving efficiency, safety, and culture. Reporting directly to the Site General Manager, the Director of Operations will translate strategic goals into daily execution and long-term capability building.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Production & Facilities

· Provide leadership to a staff of Production Supervisors and CNC Programmers.

· Lead machining, CNC programming, assembly, and cleanroom operations.

· In cooperation with the Director of Maintenance, oversee facilities management, equipment utilization, and preventive maintenance.

· Ensure Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost targets are consistently achieved.

· Develop the operations and capital equipment budget.

· Champion 5S workplace organization.

Scheduling & Capacity Planning

· Develop daily plans and execute production schedules against the master schedule.

· Cooperate with Planning and Delivery through the SIOP process providing inputs into capacity planning and modeling, aligning with the supply chain and customer demand.

· Partner with Planning and Delivery to balance inventory strategies with operational readiness.

· Collaborate with Quality and Engineering to embed process controls and ensure compliance.

Continuous Improvement

· Drive Lean, Six Sigma, and Kaizen initiatives across production areas working closely with Engineering.

· Implement systems for performance metrics, accountability, and operational transparency.

· Champion waste reduction, cycle time improvement, and productivity gains.

Culture & Leadership

· Build a culture of engagement, accountability, and innovation.

· Mentor supervisors and team leads, fostering psychological safety and high performance.

· Facilitate employee engagements and cross-functional collaboration to surface systemic themes.

Cross-Functional Alignment

· Act as the connective agent between Planning and Delivery, Quality, Engineering, Program Management and Business Development.

· Support business development by ensuring operational readiness of our expanded cleanroom and CNC automation for new verticals.

· Collaborate with leadership to embed strategic operating systems across the enterprise.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, or related field.

· 10+ years of leadership experience in precision machining, semi-conductor, aerospace, medical devices, or advanced manufacturing.

· Proven success in production leadership, scheduling, and facilities management.

· Strong background in Lean, Six Sigma, and operational excellence.

· Excellent leadership, communication, and team-building skills.

· Ability to balance strategic vision with hands-on execution.

Other Skills Required:
• Communications - Exhibits good listening and comprehension.
• Business Acumen - Understands business implications of decisions; displays orientation to profitability; demonstrates knowledge of market and competition. Aligns work with strategic goals.

Language Skills:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Mathematical Skills:
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability:
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills:
To perform this job successfully, an individual should have an understanding of Microsoft Office Software- especially knowledge of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee will be in the office and shop and required to sit, stand and walk.

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

ALIGN Precision is an Equal Opportunity Employee and wholeheartedly supports diversity in the workplace as a basic premise for business success. All employees of ALIGN Precision are employed on an at-will basis.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)