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About Us

Dymax, part of the Bachmann Chemical & Engineering family of brands is based out of Torrington, Connecticut. Dymax is globally recognized as a pioneer in the development of light-curable adhesives and curing equipment. Today, our expansive portfolio of innovative adhesives, coatings, and maskants are supported by dispense solutions and cutting-edge UV and LED light-curing equipment. Unlike our competitors who supplying standard products, Dymax focuses on the customer experience by tailoring solutions that help customers lower costs, reduce their carbon footprint, improve efficiency, and drive profitability. Our focus on being a customer-initiated organization has led us to where we are today: a rapidly expanding force within our industry, an innovative product portfolio, extraordinary employees, and a bright future based on creating quality offerings with a dedication to business growth.

About You

Were seeking a result-focused, innovative, self-driven, and well-qualified individual to join our talented team as our Global Production Director. Based out of our Torrington Connecticut location, you will ensure that all products and services meet product excellence, LSOT requirements, and multi-brand business objectives by driving continuous improvement activities to achieve efficiency, quality, safety, reliability, and cost reduction programs throughout the production value streams of formulations, assembly, packaging, and shipping. Also, by partnering with commercial teams to enhance synergy between the functions, which entails both improving production support mechanisms for brands and establishing clear accountability measures for customer-facing teams in relation to operations, and cascading expectations throughout.

In addition, you will:

• Manage all operational plants to deliver on business performance metrics and set production strategies by formulating, developing, and overseeing global operations goals, objectives, policies and procedures, systems, and outcomes pertaining to production output and performance while maintaining full control over production costs, inventory management, and variable production flows. Also, by establishing and sustaining facilities that support a productive on-site work environment for our workforce and an engaging experience for our customers.
• Develop innovative, customer-advocating, high-performing global production management and process engineering teams by exercising strong leadership and judgment skills to acquire, develop, train, coach, cultivate, and manage talented, responsive global production leaders and visionaries
• Develop a strong culture of safety awareness, accountability, collaboration, and cohesion amongst functions by ensuring manufacturing operations comply with safety standards, that team members regularly demonstrate our five focused roles, and by proactively identifying and managing areas of improvement with proper escalation of issues through the EOS system.
• Champion data-driven decisions to achieve the mutual success of operational excellence and commercial growth by driving the implementation and integration of continuous improvement tools, programs, and global standard processes, and by identifying operational accountability across company functions and implementing methods to follow and monitor actions, both internally and externally, to drive collaboration.
• Continuously improve the global production planning, scheduling, and forecasting processes by liaising with Supply Chain, Business Development, and Sales to review and develop demand and product forecasting processes that meet customer delivery expectations while driving cost control and efficiency within the region
• Continuously improve yields and productivity by evaluating and managing product quality, through-put, rework/scrap, and manufacturing processes, helping the team(s) identify opportunities for improvement and creating action plans to resolve issues supported by metrics, reports, and performance dashboards
• Continuously improve global production processes, production efficiencies, and quality by managing the investigation and testing of new processes, equipment, maintenance, and capital projects and facilitating rework, scrap, and downtime managing systems and by championing standardizing individual and team learning and development based on documented standard processes, lead, drive and facilitate cross-functional team collaboration on RCCA, CAPA for quality escapes.
• Develop capital planning projects that improve performance and achieve operational goals by evaluating business needs and developing project plans, and timelines implementation teams to ensure successful achievement of project milestones and objectives.

Requirements

You should have:

• BA/BS in Chemical Engineering or Chemistry required; MBA highly desirable, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience in chemical manufacturing operations & staff level leadership
• 5+ years of experience in international management of global production operations teams is required; Asia production management experience preferred
• 5+ years experience with proven chemical production management experience
• 5+ years experience with quality and production control methods, Lean Manufacturing required
• 5+ years experience of ISO procedures a plus
• Experience in driving change management in complex transformational activities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to apply structured problem-solving methodologies to determine the root cause of problems and effective countermeasures
• Process engineering experience in a GMP production facility preferred

Travel: Frequently within the region; up to 30% per year, including international travel

Benefits

Our company offers its employees:

• Attractive salaries
• Personal growth opportunities
• Excellent benefits packages that include:

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401K)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Generous Paid Time Off and Public Holidays
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Free uniforms and footwear
• Training & Development
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Wellness Resources

Salary Range: $168,322 - $210,422

Our company takes the compensation of its employees very seriously and considers several factors when determining the total compensation package including but not limited to location, market range, skills, knowledge, experience, and abilities. The base salary range represents the low and high end of our company's salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range. The range listed is just one component of our company's total compensation packages for employees.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Our company provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, domestic violence status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.