Site Director, Bratislava

Job Description

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

•    Delivers financial performance of the Bratislava business unit ensuring cost, risk and quality is managed to plan
•    Leverages best practices across the ATS network, drives towards standardization of processes and tools with other divisions.
•    Provides leadership and inspiration to the site leadership team, ensuring clarity of direction, motivation and development of capability and pipeline of talent for succession.
•    Advocates and promotes employee engagement and effective communication throughout the company.
•    Lead the talent development of your team and ensure individual goals and KPI’s are met.
•    Leads and supports use of the ATS Business Model (ABM) lean tools & principles, driving execution of plans with key performance metrics, daily visual management (ex. yield/module efficiency/throughput and labor utilization), problem solving and Kaizen ensuring continuous improvement through accountability and ownership of the team.
•    Is a role model for ATS code of conduct and quality standards acting in an ethical manner at all times, ensuring compliance to process and regulatory requirements.
•    Hold daily team huddles, weekly governance reviews and monthly communications with their team and cascade performance expectations from the global service leadership.
•    Continually expands capacity and capability to meet future growth including sourcing and identifying potential M&A candidates or partnerships. 
•    Maintain an accurate project status tracking system.  Collect, monitor and report on performance at the department level. 

 
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:

•    Implement the departmental policies and objectives as prescribed by the General Manager, Europe
•    Recommend departmental operating budget and operate department within the budget parameters.
•    Ensure optimal utilization of resources.
•    Implement comprehensive performance reviews for direct reports.  Produce succession candidates for the Director and Manager roles using the ATS process.  
•    Ensure that all business activities are performed with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with the ATS Code of Business Conduct.
•    Provide subject matter expertise within agreed-upon timeframes to Sales and Applications in the quotation process. 
•    Persuade key technical personnel at the customer site that ATS is key to their success to influence subsequent buying decisions.  Provide timely customer intelligence to Sales and Business Development.  Monitor and report on internal customer satisfaction data to the General Manager.
•    Directly, and through your team, pro-actively articulate and deliver value added service solutions to our customers through the life cycle of their equipment.
•    Work with the Sales to develop and leverage our customer satisfaction surveys and KPI’s to drive focused customer support, conduct root cause analysis and corrective actions. 
 

Additional Information

Education:
A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, business administration or other technical field.  

Experience:
•    Experience having full P&L responsibility of a $20M + operation
•    The successful candidate will have proven experience working with and leading skilled engineers and professionals in conjunction with working closely with their customers. 
•    Experience working in a project-based and change management environment
•    Demonstrated experienced in facility operations, financial management, regulatory compliance, and planning development specific to automated manufacturing systems.
•    Strong communication and presentation skills is required