Operations Manager

General Information:

Hitachi Energy is seeking for an Operations Manager for its Mount Pleasant, PA location.

Your Responsibilities:

• Responsible to implement, support and sponsor Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) and all other business compliance standards and regulations across the Surge Arresters product line.
• Accountable to ensure a safe work environment and continuous improvement in HSE processes and integrity performance.
• Responsible to execute a customer-focused Operations strategy for the Surge Arresters product line.
• Accountable for its relentless execution.
• May provide support to Sales during customer visits to explain capabilities of the manufacturing facilities.
• Owns and is accountable to deliver RELEX KPls in line with expectations.
• Responsible for on-time/on-margin project execution and to deliver project EBIT and cash.
• Accountable for the effective deployment of Quality strategy for the Surge Arresters product line.
• Accountable for the development and continuous improvement of business processes and procedures, and of the overall customer satisfaction.
• Accountable to define and deliver the annual budgets for CapEx and OpEx expenses.
• Accountable to effectively balance installed capacity with customer-demand and workload.
• Accountable to ensure compliance with global and local standards, rules, policies, and procedures related to Operations/Project execution.
• In alignment with the respective Group, Divisional, BU and Hub policies, responsible to introduce standards and guidelines, standardized processes, and KPls.
• Accountable for operational risk management, validates and improves reliability and effectiveness of business operations.
• Develops programs, projects, goals, and metrics to capacitors and filters operations, integrating lean manufacturing principles in production processes.
• Supports and guides new product introduction (through Gate Model) an ensure smooth transition to Operations processes.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background:

• Bachelor's degree in business, Engineering or a comparable field is required.
• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• Minimum of five years of progressive responsibility regarding materials management or manufacturing operations, supply chain management.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365
• Effective communication skills both oral and written