Director of Operations

Amentum is seeking a Director of Operations. This position will support our global organization of mostly hourly employees providing services to clients with numerous manufacturing and production facilities across the U.S. and abroad.   

This position is responsible for the overall operation of the project/contract including ensuring the safety and well-being of its employees, safeguarding company funds and property, and representing the company with respect to the client.  The Director of Operations oversees a workforce of Operations and maintenance professionals to ensure meeting of all manufacturing facility KPIs.  This position ensures that established company goals are realized while maintaining client relations that will enhance future business and has total responsibility for managing all aspects of the contract. 

This position interacts with Amentum operations support offices, vendors, subcontractors and customer representatives as required and will develop close working relationships with various business leaders/stakeholders throughout the organization.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Manage several operations managers, budget management, customer relationships and key performance indicators.
• Work under the supervisor of the Senior Directors or VPs, demonstrates project leadership in their area of responsibility.
• Identify potential project problems or opportunities, analyze the issues using all appropriate resources, develop alternatives, and arrive at the most optimum approach to mitigate problems or exploit opportunities.
• Ensure development and adherence to the project work breakdown structure, asset management, and workflow management elements.
• Expand the project execution plan for subsequent phases (project initiation, project execution, construction, etc.) and communicates and coordinates the implementation of the enhancements with the project team.
• Establish, track, and report status against key performance indicators or contractual metrics on a routine basis.
• Participate in the establishment of project organizational structure in support of proposal efforts.
• Demonstrate command of the schedule goals, key milestones and approach to the work embodied in the schedule.
• Ensure that a firm scope-based schedule baseline is established and properly resourced.
• Manage performance and progress against the plan and ensures accurate forecasts with commensurate action plans.
• Review, report and manage key performance measures defined within the contract. Implements corrective measures when measures are outside service levels or bandwidths.
• Consistently meet or improve upon the established schedule goals in their area of responsibility.
• Manage performance and progress against the plan and ensures accurate forecasts with commensurate action plans.
• Establish annual operating budgets in cooperation with customer, business manager, or group financial department.
• Provide accurate monthly forecasts of cost, schedule, and resource utilization.
• Work with business development to increase scope of services on existing contracts.
• Support BD, and Group management in contract negotiations with customers.
• Support or conduct formal presentations to clients and/or management.
• Perform all other position related duties as assigned or requested.
• Complies with all Amentum policies and initiatives.

Minimum Requirements:

• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Construction, Project, Facility Management, or other relevant discipline or demonstrated equivalent.
• In addition to education, 15 years of professional experience managing a multi-skilled technical workforce, supervisors and/or subcontractors in a technical capacity.
• Strong knowledge of Lean Management principals and ability to articulate a plan to use continuous improvement to increase client EBIT.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing P&L reporting with experience in managing multi-million dollar budgets.
• Must have a valid Driver's License.
• This position will require travel up to 25%.
• Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.
• This position does not include sponsorship for United States work authorization.
• This position will require the ability to obtain a security access badge at our client’s location.

This position may require overtime, various shifts, weekends, holidays and alternative work.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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