Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Collins Aerospace, a leader in technologically advanced solutions for the aerospace and defense industry, is seeking an Associate Director for Operations Boundary Systems. This senior leadership role involves managing a team to implement a unified Manufacturing Execution System across global factories, ensuring operational readiness and seamless adoption of digital manufacturing processes.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of operations experts to define, organize, and prioritize the standardized functionalities required by our factories, minimizing custom site-level logic in favor of enterprise scalability
- Maintain and optimize the multi-year deployment schedule, ensuring sites are operationally ready for system implementation
- Design, deploy, and manage the long-term training frameworks and post-go-live hypercare/support structures to ensure seamless operational adoption on the shop floor
- Partner closely with DT leadership to map capacity directly against operational deployment timelines and functional requirements
- Co-author the roadmap for systemic enhancements, technical upgrades, and factory floor infrastructure requirements necessary to support a modern enterprise MES ecosystem
- Work in lockstep with the Model Based Operations Lead, reporting to the Director of Factory Enablement, to synthesize upstream PLM data structures and downstream ERP handoffs into the MES core layer
- Actively partner with the global SAP S/4HANA deployment teams to map out, mitigate, and align critical data and process dependencies moving toward enterprise deployment
- Manage, mentor, and elevate a high-performing team of operations engineers, specialists and business analysts
- Champion business process transformation by establishing deep partnerships with engineering, plant managers, and technology functions to drive acceptance of unified, standardized software capabilities
Skills
- Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience
- 5+ years of leadership experience within manufacturing operations, engineering, or technology sectors
- Experience delivering large-scale technology deployments, digital transformations or organizational change initiatives
- Must be willing and able to travel 25% of the time (domestic and international)
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Management, or Business Administration (Master's degree or MBA preferred)
- Experience in cross-functional collaboration
- Understanding of factory operations and shop-floor processes
- Experience with MES (Solumina, Siemens), PLM (Teamcenter/Windchill), or ERP (SAP & SAP S4Hana) ecosystems
- Experience with project management and ability to manage complex project dependencies across large enterprise timelines
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee Scholar Program
- Paid time off
- And holidays
- Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
- Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
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