Operational Director

The Director of Operations is a professional who will manage the daily activities within Castolin by overseeing several departments to implement production and strategic planning to meet company goals and customer requirements. 

• Liaising with superiors to make decisions for operational activities and set strategic goals. Planning and monitoring the Operational day to day functioning to ensure smooth progress.
• Assists upper management in setting goals that promote company growth: both locally and regionally
• Develops plans to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Review financial information and adjust operational budgets to promote profitability
• Evaluate overall performance by gathering, analyzing and interpreting data and metrics. Revise and/or formulate policies and promote their implementation
• Manage relationships/agreements with external partners/vendors
• Prepares budgets, schedules, and other organizational reports as needed
• Oversee customer support processes and organize them to enhance customer satisfaction
• Manages team workloads in order to meet goals and deadlines. Improves existing systems and policies
• Manages stock and inventory locally and regionally. Oversees manufacturing functions
• Works closely with other departments to promote efficient factory optimization
• Identifies improvement areas and plans and implements systems to boost company effectiveness. Manages internal and external service suppliers
• Executes plans designed to meet company goals by changing policies and coaching employees
• Ensure Time & Attendance sheets, OEE, yield, efficiency, quality data is collated into weekly incentive file for perf management & payroll – work as necessary with the Process Engineers.
• Drive manufacturing site continuous improvement through relevant product quality/development meetings (new raw material, product revisions, improvement works).
• Qualification & sign off of any mods/improvements at existing lines.
• Actively contribute to QMS meetings quarterly. Working with Finance to manage all product recycling to commercially benefit the plant.

• Must have at least 7 years’ experience in manufacturing management and planning with at least 5 years running full operations with more than 50 FTE.
• Good understanding of regulatory requirements for operating plants
• Strong aptitude for root cause analysis and troubleshooting operational issues
• Proficient with Microsoft 365 applications and computer technology
• Familiar with operating plant equipment safely and efficiently
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English 
• Strong leadership and managerial attributes. Exceptional organizational and time management skills
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills
• Must be educated to a minimum of Engineering Degree

What we offer:

• Annual vacation days as per the local law
• flat hierarchy
• An attractive and performance-based compensation package