Position Summary
As an Operations Performance Expert, you will serve as a trusted partner to the CEO, ensuring seamless execution between product/system design and operational delivery. Your role will involve analyzing, challenging, and supporting the organization's ability to scale with excellence, aligning vision with day-to-day execution. The insights you provide will directly influence how design decisions translate into operational outcomes across production, supply chain, and quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Bridge Strategy and Execution: Translate strategic goals into operational actions, ensuring alignment between design engineering and operations (production, manufacturing, delivery, etc.).
- Process Optimization: Identify performance bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and risks across the design-to-execution pipeline and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Operational Readiness: Assess whether designs (product, system, or process) are operationally viable and scalable before handoff.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain leaders to align priorities, mitigate risks, and accelerate execution.
- Performance Monitoring: Develop and track KPIs to measure operational performance and ensure feedback loops into design.
- Advisory & Coaching: Act as a sounding board to senior leadership, offering critical thinking, execution insights, and practical recommendations.
- Program Oversight: Support or lead key initiatives requiring complex coordination across design and operations functions.
Required Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, or Program Delivery roles with strong execution accountability.
- Proven ability to operate at the intersection of design and delivery, understanding how upstream design decisions impact downstream operations.
- Strong analytical, systems-thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence across all levels.
- Experience in high-growth, fast-paced, or hardware-centric environments preferred.
Preferred Attributes
- Experience in aerospace, automotive, or industrial sectors.
- Background in Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous improvement methodologies.
- Comfortable in both strategic advisory and tactical hands-on roles.
- Known for bringing clarity, rigor, and momentum to complex execution challenges.
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