Director of CI & Manufacturing

Teijin Automotive Technologies is an innovative and full-service Tier One supplier with a global presence and emphasis in development for lightweight technologies. Teijin Automotive offers employees the opportunity to join a leading edge company within the composite material industry and enjoy the benefits offered by a growing company in North America and internationally.

Essential Job Functions:

Partner with the VP of Manufacturing to develop and execute annual manufacturing strategies, operational priorities, and multi-year continuous improvement roadmaps.

Translate organizational manufacturing objectives into measurable improvement initiatives across the manufacturing network.

Collaborate with Regional Directors of Operations to align plant-level improvement priorities with enterprise manufacturing objectives.

Support the evaluation and prioritization of capital investments, operational improvement opportunities, and resource requirements.

Represent Manufacturing in cross-functional strategic discussions with Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, and other corporate functions, as delegated.

Prepare and present manufacturing performance analyses, strategic recommendations, and operational updates to executive leadership.

Identify opportunities to standardize manufacturing processes, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen performance accountability across facilities.

Lead consolidated manufacturing budget tracking, financial performance reporting, and variance analysis across all manufacturing facilities in partnership with Finance.

Collaborate with plant leadership and finance to identify cost reduction opportunities, productivity improvements, and operational efficiencies.

Develop and maintain financial business cases for continuous improvement initiatives and proposed capital investments.

Establish processes to quantify, validate, and track cost savings associated with manufacturing improvement projects.

Analyze manufacturing cost drivers and recommend corrective actions to address unfavorable performance trends.

Support annual budgeting and capital planning activities through operational analysis and financial recommendations.

Partner with Finance to ensure consistency and accuracy in reporting improvement-related financial benefits.

Establish and maintain a standardized manufacturing performance management framework across all facilities.

Define and standardize key performance indicators, including Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), scrap, downtime, throughput, productivity, quality, and safety.

Partner with Operations, Engineering, and IT to establish consistent manufacturing execution system (MES) reporting and data integrity standards.

Develop dashboards and reporting tools that provide visibility into manufacturing performance and improvement opportunities.

Lead weekly and monthly manufacturing performance reviews in collaboration with regional and plant leadership.

Identify underperforming facilities and coordinate structured root-cause analysis and corrective action planning.

Monitor progress against established performance targets and escalate significant performance risks and resource constraints to the Vice President of Manufacturing.

Promote data-driven decision-making and accountability for measurable operational improvements.

Develop and deploy standardized continuous improvement methodologies, tools, and operating practices across the manufacturing network.

Establish expectations for the application of Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), and other operational excellence principles.

Provide functional leadership, technical guidance, and coaching to plant-level Continuous Improvement Managers.

Establish and facilitate a network-wide CI community of…