Operations Manager, Beryllium Products

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The Beryllium Products Operations Manager is responsible for all aspects of the Beryllium Products department including driving EHS excellence, employee engagement, quality, productivity, cost competitiveness, and implementing best in class precision machine shop processes & concepts.

You will have the opportunity to:

- Drive Environmental, Health, and Safety excellence across machine shop operations.

- Establish, track, and improve key metrics aligned to Be Products operations.

- Establish visual management system.

- Establish, audit, and ensure compliance with standard work for tasks.

- Understand customer requirements, determine process and equipment capability gaps, and implement plan to close gaps.

- Ensure compliance with AS9100 requirements.

- Partner with planning team to establish and track schedule adherence.

- Baseline productivity and costs.

- Develop and implement plan to achieve best in class performance through continuous improvement.

- Developing, coaching, and mentoring employees.

- Other tasks as required.

Education, Experience and Skills:

- Bachelor’s degree is required.

- Master’s degree preferred or bachelor’s degree in manufacturing engineering or other relevant engineering disciplines.

- 3 years or more experience leading a manufacturing operations team.

- Experience in beryllium manufacturing or powdered metallurgy processes preferred.

- Ability to establish Key Performance Indicators for Production Operations required.

- Project management experience executing large capital projects is preferred.

- Formal education / training in SAP, Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Statistical Process Control is preferred.

- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint).

- Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills

The selection of the person to be hired for this position is contingent on the candidate having export compliance eligibility for access to U.S. controlled technology which comes under the licensing jurisdiction of the U.S. Department of State, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Export Administration Regulations (EAR).

The candidate selected will have to qualify as either a U.S. citizen, a U.S. National, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a Person Admitted into the U.S. as an Asylee or Refugee., a National of a country that is not prohibited from having access to U.S. controlled technology (via a letter of assurance), or a Person to be approved for an export license by the governing agency whose technology comes under its jurisdiction. Please understand that any job offer that requires approval of an export license will be conditional on Materion’s determination that it will be able to obtain an export license in a time frame consistent with Materion’s business requirements.

Materion Corporation and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) is an equal employment opportunity employer. It is the Company’s policy to not unlawfully discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants.

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