We are hiring for an Operations Director. This position reports to the Vice President & General Manager – Imaging Solutions Manufacturing & Service. The Director of QuickSnap Manufacturing is responsible for the Q plant manufacturing operation producing Fujifilm One Time Use Cameras. The position is in Greenwood, SC.

At FUJIFILM North America Corporation, we’re many things to our customers. We’re looking for passionate, mission-driven people to help us continue to innovate.

With five operating divisions, there’s a lot of opportunity to find your niche and make an impact. Perhaps you’ll click with our Imaging Division that provides one-time-use cameras, digital printing equipment, and instax™. Maybe you’ll get charged up about our Electronic Imaging Division that markets digital cameras, lenses, and accessories for content creators. Or, you might have your eye on our Optical Devices Division, which provides optical lenses for the broadcast, cinematography, videography, and industrial markets. You could be drawn to our Business Innovation Division—they offer office and commercial print solutions and enable digital transformation. And if you’re interested in tape, check out our Industrial Products Division—they develop data storage solutions.

We offer a collegial culture and a flexible work environment. Our headquarters is in Valhalla, New York, a quaint town just one hour north of New York City.

Fujifilm is globally headquartered in Tokyo with over 70,000 employees across four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging. We are guided and united by our Group Purpose of “giving our world more smiles.” Visit: https://www.fujifilm.com/us/en/about/region/careers

Responsibilities

Leadership & Employee Relations

• Communicates the vision and key strategies for the business and how it impacts all the roles inside the operation.
• Develops and delegates measurable goals and objectives to be attained by the team.
• Conducts supervisory human resource activities such as: interviewing, employee discipline, performance assessments, salary administration, career development, etc.
• Tracks individual Associate performance and maintains personnel files including time, attendance, paid time off, warnings, etc. as required.  Responsible for Associate growth and development activities, ensures that all associates reach their highest potential.
• Directly oversees contract labor for manufacturing. Responsible for setting the schedule and monitoring hours worked. 

Budget and Expense Management

• Develops and drives performance against the annual expense budget for the factory. This includes determining the factory’s production capacity (volume) and the expenses required.
• Responsible for reviewing the factory’s financial results monthly and adjusting operations as necessary to stay within budget.
• Works with the team to identify and implement operational and efficiency improvements to lower costs or improve efficiency.
• Develops a capital plan – annual and MTP - for equipment improvements. Oversees the capital projects to ensure progress and within budget.

Operations

• Oversees the daily operations of the QuickSnap factory.
• Ensures Safety is taken very seriously by all in the organization, and that actions are taken to eliminate the chances of accidents.
• Ensures that Quality is taken very seriously by all in the organization, and that strong quality management processes are in place and followed closely.
• Directly supervises the department managers over production, quality, materials management, and maintenance. Responsible for effectively leading, coaching, mentoring, and developing associates Responsible for setting the plant’s KPIs (key performance indicators) and reviewing them monthly.
• Leads Supervisors and Managers to achieve Company, plant, and team goals and objectives that have significant impact on operations.
• Approves adequate staffing and work schedules to assure best possible team service and coverage.
• Provides leadership and technical knowledge regarding short- and long-term capital projects.
• Works to increase production efficiency.
• Oversee inventory control operations such as cycle counts, semi-annual inventory counts, inventory adjustments, and approve inventory discards.

Reporting

• Responsible for creating a monthly operating report (MOR) that covers the factory’s performance in safety, quality, production KPIs, and financials. Also responsible for presenting to management team in Valhalla, NY.
• Responsible for providing business updates to the entire factory and upper management when requested.

Compliance

• Ensure plant is compliant with ISO9001/14001.
• Responsible for Associates’ adherence to all State and Federal Regulations and Company Policies affecting their departments, including Fujifilm’s Employee Code of Conduct Policy and Safety policies. 
• Ensure compliances with Fujifilm’s “Green” policy by monitoring and auditing factory’s waste streams and processes.
• Ensure plant is meeting the FTZ “Foreign Trade Zone” requirements.
• Ensures staff uses sound principals and methods to meet or exceed customer expectations within budgetary guidelines.

 Other Duties

• Completes daily, weekly, and monthly objectives as determined by the VP or President. Performs additional duties as assigned by international staff, VP, or President.

Required Skills/Education

• Minimum of a Bachelor Business, Engineering, or related field to area of responsibility or equivalent experience
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a manager level position or demonstrates advanced knowledge of proprietary field.
• Demonstrates ability to plan, set priorities, organize, and coordinate work with others.
• Strong Analytical, teamwork and communication skills
• Experience presenting to senior management.
• Proficient in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word

Desired Skills

• Experience with MM/PP/FI Modules of SAP preferred.
• Creates a trusting atmosphere by relating to people in an open, friendly, and accepting manner.
• Demonstrated ability to provide effective leadership to a large-scale group.
• Demonstrates ability to use verbal, written and listening communications skills with people from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Demonstrates professionalism, e.g., cooperation, courtesy, assertiveness, non-defensiveness, and accepting of constructive criticism.
• Effectively handles stressful situations (resolving conflict and meeting deadlines).

Salary and Benefits

• Depending on experience.
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Life Insurance
• 401k
• Paid Time Off

AGENCY NOTES

To all agencies: Please, no phone calls or emails to any employee of Fujifilm about this requisition. All resumes submitted by search firms/employment agencies to any employee at Fujifilm via-email, the internet or in any form and/or method will be deemed the sole property of Fujifilm, unless such search firms/employment agencies were engaged by Fujifilm for this requisition and a valid agreement with Fujifilm is in place. In the event a candidate who was submitted outside of the Fujifilm agency engagement process is hired, no fee or payment of any kind will be paid.

Fujifilm is committed to providing equal opportunities in hiring, promotion and advancement, compensation, benefits, and training regardless of nationality, age, gender, sexual orientation or gender identity, race, ethnicity, religion, political creed, ideology, national, or social origin, disability, veteran status, etc.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to our HR Department (hlushrteam@fujifilm.com).