The Director of Operations holds a leadership responsibility for the operational performance across the company’s multinational manufacturing operations. This role oversees the strategic alignment of multiple plants to ensure excellence in quality, service, cost, compliance, and safety. As a leader, you will be responsible for developing regional talent, optimizing cross-site production flow, and ensuring regional revenue and profit targets are met. The Director is the primary architect of the multi-site strategic manufacturing plan, ensuring the region is positioned to meet both current and future business demands.
This is an onsite role based in our Milwaukee HQ office.
Preferred Qualifications- Operational Excellence: Standardize and maintain operating systems that drive repeatable processes and lead standard work across multiple locations, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and visual performance management.
- Strategic Resource Planning: Lead end-to-end resource planning—including people, assets, space, and systems—across the US to achieve regional revenue, profit, and service targets.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as a fact-centered strategic partner for global functions (Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering), driving improvements that transcend individual plant boundaries.
- Safety Leadership: Establish and scale a regional safety culture underpinned by reflexive leadership engagement and the systematic removal of risk-related behaviors across all sites.
- Governance & Compliance: Ensure all company, regulatory, and customer-specific policies are integrated and followed by site leadership teams throughout the region.
- Regional Roadmap Development: Create and execute an annual regional improvement plan that provides a credible roadmap for advancing safety, quality, delivery, and cost metrics.
- Data-Driven Capability Building: Expand regional competency in data collection and rapid improvement cycles, ensuring sites can implement useful control systems and act on performance data.
- Organizational Development: Serve as the primary owner for organizational health, ensuring employees understand work systems and that sites are adequately resourced to withstand leadership attrition.
Skills Required
- Experience in operational excellence and continuous improvement processes.
- Strong strategic resource planning skills across various functions.
- Ability to foster cross-functional partnerships for enhanced operations.
- Experience in safety leadership and cultural transformation.
- Knowledge of governance and compliance in manufacturing settings.
- Capability in regional improvement planning and metrics tracking.
- Proficient in data-driven decision making and performance management.
- Experience in organizational development and talent management.
What We Do
Brady Corporation is an international manufacturer and marketer of complete solutions that identify and protect people, products and places. Brady’s products help customers increase safety, security, productivity and performance and include high-performance labels, signs, safety devices, printing systems and software. Founded in 1914, the Company has a diverse customer base in electronics, telecommunications, manufacturing, electrical, construction, medical, aerospace and a variety of other industries. Brady is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and as of July 31, 2021, employed approximately 5,700 people in its worldwide businesses. Brady’s fiscal 2021 sales were approximately $1.14 billion. Brady stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol BRC. More information is available on the Internet at www.bradycorp.com.
