Director of Operations, Aerospace Sector
OPTISYS
6582 S. Airport Rd Suite 6
West Jordan, UT 84084
www.optisys.net
Contact:
Bert Sadtler
President
Boxwood Strategies
(410) 274-6707
[email protected]
Introduction
Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, Optisys is a groundbreaking antenna technology company, fusing novel RF design with metal additive manufacturing to generate unique, highly integrated, and market-leading solutions.
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Optisys excels at rapidly developed, customized, high-performance antenna designs in metal waveguide for global customers that include Lockheed Martin, Boeing, L-3Harris, and General Dynamics. Optisys serves a broad range of market segments from sea to deep space, with many deployments in all these areas. These solutions are produced for the commercial, defense, and government sectors.
Optisys is a turn-key solutions provider offering components or full system development and has a full vertically integrated process from design through manufacturing. This enables engineers to see their designs through the whole development process from design through production, test, and deployment.
Optisys is the only successful US-based design specialist for antennas produced using metal 3D printing. We currently have around 45 employees and are on a very rapid growth track due to an enormous influx of customers and IRAD for new technology.
Optisys solves unique problems that provide the opportunity for strong engineers to have full engagement and express their creativity and ingenuity through exciting and groundbreaking new concepts and solutions.
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Summary for Director of Operations
We are seeking a change agent capable of developing diverse teams, collaboration, and solutions to today’s and future opportunities. We are seeking a consummate professional in both manufacturing, leadership, and organizational excellence ready to take ownership of our organization’s growth engine.
In this role, you will function as a central point of organizational success molding professionals in multiple disciplines to refine foundational activities and approaches into successful benchmarks for ourselves and our competitors. You will build heavily upon core functional areas of manufacturing, quality, supply, shipping, and receiving, and work closely with financial entities to ensure profitability.
As the Director of Operations, you will report directly to the COO, Rob Smith, and manage a success-based quantity of direct reports to achieve lean manufacturing alignment. You will integrate operations capabilities with program and development demands to support operational metrics. You will be critical to establishing and upholding key performance metrics and defining impactful resistant approaches to poor quality and improved opportunity capitalization. Your strengths will support communication, on-time delivery, quality, and customer success. Your leadership will generate compounding growth potential in our resources while fostering a healthy work environment. You will define resource needs and utilization in support of organizational strategy and growth objectives.
We are seeking someone with extensive manufacturing experience who has held Operations Manager, or Director of Operations positions and can weather the road ahead for a growing company. While technical efficiency is not a requirement it is a bonus to understand and interpret designs as well as process mapping. ERP Systems experience is a must.
This is an opportunity to work on the leading edge of metal 3D printed antennas, which are a novel class of antennas that allow for pushing the limits of what physics allows in antenna design. Optisys antennas can be found all around the world and out of this world in space. This position requires creativity and exploration of difficult design challenges to solve problems that have not been encountered before.
Key Requirements include:
Current US Citizenship or Current Permanent Green Card Holder.
5-10 years of experience in Aerospace Manufacturing Operations.
Duties and Responsibilities
Support and oversee day-to-day company operations strategy, structure, & processes.
Support and oversee long-term company operations strategy, structure, & processes to support strategic growth.
Maintain Aerospace and Defense certification compliance initiatives (AS9100D, ISO9001, NADCAP, FAR / DFAR, etc..)
Establish a consistent, repeatable, manufacturing process of excellence for On-Time-Delivery (OTD) and Quality.
Develop metrics-based success margins aligned with strategic directions.
Mentor and manage direct staff and oversee talent development initiatives.
Develop and manage operating and capital budgets to achieve financial goals.
Establish and maintain Supply Chain and Commodity activities that support continuous operations and limit impacts to quality and OTD.
Drive a culture of accountability and results through effective, objectives-based, performance management.
Develop multidiscipline continuous improvement programs supporting strategy and immediate objectives equally.
Ability to balance long term manufacturing strategy and day-to-day execution
Balance capabilities and limitations with development and program demands constructively.
Establish and implement lean manufacturing principles and practices
Support ERP development and organizational integration where opportunities exist.
Improve independent and plant throughput, tact times, and efficiencies across operations.
Ensure quality systems performance nets consistent results aligned with industrial standards and contractual compliance
Coordinate support to operations throughout the business.
Provide regular performance updates to senior leadership team.
Maintain working knowledge of all phases of operations.
Support the safety, health, and wellbeing of all employees.
Requirements
Current US Citizenship or Current Green Card Holder
Bachelor’s degree in business, industrial engineering, or related field.
5-10 years of experience in Aerospace Manufacturing Operations.
Demonstrated experience in High Mix Low Volume (HMLV) Manufacturing
Standards, policy, and procedure development experience.
Demonstrated understanding of lean principles.
Proven track record as a team leader with an understanding of management practices.
Demonstrated project and budget management skills.
Strong Business acumen with a broad understanding of fundamental business principles.
Analytical problem-solving skills with impeccable attention to detail.
Ability to set overall strategy and drive process improvement.
Excellent oral and written communications skills.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and build consensus in a high-pressure environment.
Demonstrated fundamental expertise in ERP and PLM systems operations (SAP, Epicor, Teamcenter).
Proficiency in full Microsoft Suite.
Desired Experience
Demonstratable experience transitioning High Mix-Low Volume (HMLV) Manufacturing to Low Mix High Volume (LMHV)
Demonstrated Contract Manufacturing Integration for limited and full turn-key implementations.
Experience with Special Process manufacturing
MBA, MAC with industrial
Previous P&L responsibilities.
Program Management experience.
Geographic Location
This role is located at the OPTISYS Salt Lake offices. A relocation package is available for the right candidate.
OPTISYS Culture
Optisys is a close-knit team of highly motivated individuals who all share the same aspirations of ensuring Optisys becomes a global power in RF technology.
We thrive on a culture of ingenuity, passion, and collaboration, and due to the nature of the product, we develop you will be interfacing with all levels of the company regularly.
Top Priorities During the First 6 Months
Establish an integrated master schedule that aligns requirements with deliverables.
Develop ERP-based production management & reporting improvements.
Evaluate QMS and support critical industrial and contractual gap closures.
Define aggressive waste and scrap rate reduction plan.
Compensation
The total on-target compensation range of $175K- $220K is a combination of a base salary plus a performance bonus based upon company performance and employee performance
Breakdown of Compensation:
The annual On-Target base salary range is between $160K-$200K.
There is an annual performance bonus of $15K-$30K
There is an employee stock option program.
The pay cycle is every other week.
The Recruitment Process
OPTISYS has retained Boxwood to conduct a different kind of recruitment. We have selected Boxwood because we are believers in Boxwood’s unique approach to candidate selection and qualification. While this process is different, we feel that it genuinely offers both candidates and the company the best opportunity to get to know each other at a deeper level than is typical with the conventional interview approach.
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To Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are first asked to view the Boxwood short video and thoroughly review the detailed position description. Interested and qualified candidates should then APPLY HERE
OPTISYS’s Benefits Summary
Schedule: Full-Time, flexible hours
Paid Time Off: 4 weeks including sick leave
Holidays: 8 standard holidays
Medical & Life Insurance, Dental, Vision, EAP
401K Savings
Relocation: Negotiated
Other: Tuition reimbursement
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Executive Leadership
Janos Opra, CEO
Janos Opra has 17 years of experience in military communications systems ranging from RF engineer to business development to leadership. He has won multiple new business opportunities by coordinating with engineers, program management, and end users to develop products. These products had a market segment of over $100 million. Mr. Opra has a wide variety of industry contacts from his time spent in the aerospace industry. He has worked directly with high level military planners to establish project requirements and CONOPs for multimillion dollar hardware platforms and their supporting software.
Robert Smith, COO (Hiring Manager)
Robert Smith has 23 years of experience designing and analyzing equipment and RF components to MIL-STD requirements and is an expert in metal additive manufacturing. For the past 4 years, he has focused his expertise on AM with an emphasis on aluminum RF components. With Optisys, Mr. Smith focuses on overseeing the design and fabrication of antenna products, pushing into new territory in metal AM processes.
Clinton Cathey, CSO
Clinton Cathey has 18 years of engineering experience, with the last 13 years of experience in communications systems ranging from ME/EE engineer to project lead. At Optisys, Mr. Cathey leads the company and provides technical and management direction. He is a preeminent expert in antennas and motion controls with specializations in pointing and tracking systems. His focus has been with industrial automation through airborne and shipboard motion stabilized and target tracking gimbals. He is an IEEE Senior Member and is an inventor on multiple patents related to tracking and SATCOM antennas
Michael Hollenbeck, CTO
Michael Hollenbeck has 14 years of experience designing and analyzing antenna and RF components for commercial and military communication systems. At Optisys, he designs cutting edge RF and antenna components using AM and provides technical direction for the company. Mr. Hollenbeck has led numerous projects, including design and simulation of complex RF components such as waveguide, antennas, arrays, and filters to critical success. He has worked on iterative designs to produce RF products in the 1-100 GHz (3-300 mm) ranges.
OPTISYS in the News
https://www.metal-am.com/additive-manufacturing-transforms-rf-antenna-design/
Optisys reducing antenna parts by 99% with 3D printing and simulation software