Senior Director, Operations and Lean

About the role

The Senior Director, Operations & Lean will join the Advanced Visualization Solutions (AVS) Probes leadership team, reporting to the General Manager. This senior position drives operational excellence, Lean transformation and strategic execution across a global, cross‑functional environment.

Key responsibilities

• Act as a change agent to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, innovation and people outcomes through higher Lean maturity and stronger operating discipline.
• Own the operating rhythm for Probes staff with the General Manager, ensuring clear escalations, decision flow, follow‑up discipline and alignment to business priorities.
• Partner with operations and supply‑chain functions to improve engineering‑to‑operations flow, manufacturability handoffs, operational readiness and execution efficiency.
• Support the Productivity Leader in translating VCP opportunities into problem‑solving routines, cross‑functional actions and sustained delivery while Finance validates financial impact.
• Collaborate with Product Quality, IB, QA/RA, supply‑chain and engineering leaders to structure problem solving on recurring quality, installed‑base and operational issues.
• Deploy and coach Lean and Heartbeat practices across Probes staff and global RDOs, including daily management, standard work, leader standard work, problem solving, kaizen, VSM, visual management and action tracking.
• Build Lean capability by coaching leaders and teams, developing practitioners and embedding repeatable operating mechanisms.
• Interpret business challenges, evaluate data and recommend practical operating improvements across products, processes, services and workflows.
• Influence operating plans, budget trade‑offs, capacity discussions and cross‑functional priorities through fact‑based decision support.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, Supply Chain or a related field.
• Significant experience in Lean, Lean‑Agile, operations, engineering operations, manufacturing or cross‑functional business leadership.
• Proven track record of leading change and improving performance in a complex global matrix organization.
• Demonstrated ability to teach, coach and apply Lean methods such as VSM, kaizen, standard work, leader standard work, problem solving, Kanban and visual management.
• Experience deploying Lean beyond manufacturing/supply‑chain into engineering environments.

Required skills

• Lean methodology (Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, Standard Work, Leader Standard Work, Problem Solving, Kanban, Visual Management)