Head of Operations

At ITT, we have a clear purpose as an organization – to provide our customers with cutting-edge solutions to help solve their most critical needs across key global end markets. Our continuous improvement mindset drives our commitment to evolving our capabilities as a multi-industrial technology, manufacturing and engineering leader. With a strong global footprint of more than 100 facilities, we are well positioned to solve critical challenges for our customers around the world. Our locations include manufacturing facilities and global service capabilities in 35 countries. Through these worldwide operations and building on our heritage of innovation, our approximately ~11,000 team members partner with our customers to deliver enduring solutions that make a lasting difference and help the world move forward. ITT is headquartered in Stamford, CT, with sales in approximately 125 countries. The company generated 2024 revenues of $3.6 billion. 

• Motion Technologies: (Revenue of $1.4B; headcount of ~ 4,000; operates in 13 countries) manufactures brake components and specialized sealing solutions, shock absorbers and damping technologies primarily for the global automotive, truck and trailer, public bus and rail transportation markets. 
• Industrial Process: (Revenue of $1.4B; headcount of ~3,400; operates in 30 countries) manufactures engineered fluid process equipment serving a diversified mix of customers in global industries such as chemical, energy, mining, and other industrial process markets and is a provider of plant optimization and efficiency solutions and aftermarket services and parts. 
• Connect and Control Technologies: (Revenue of $0.8B; headcount of ~ 3,800; operates in 10 countries) manufactures harsh-environment connector solutions, critical energy absorption, flow control components, and composite materials for the aerospace and defense, general industrial, medical, and energy markets.

For the next posible date we are searching for a Head of Operations who is responsible for all the Production and assembly related departments and in addition the Order Handling departmen

• Planning, controlling and optimizing processes within the area of ​​responsibility/tasks

• People management

• Operational management of the areas of production and production control order handling

• Complete P&L responsibility for these areas

• Optimization of processes and procedures in all departments. Improving the introduction of CIP, Lean Management, Kaizen and KPI control

• Direct management and development of the 3 direct reports

• Continuous increase in productivity/efficiency, setup and cycle times

• Promoting a culture of change and innovation

• Reporting to management

Personality characteristics: 
• Authentic leader with clear communication and assertiveness, hands-on mentality and high goal and solution orientation
• Ability to use resources economically and responsibly
• High resilience in stressful situations
• High flexibility and improvisation skills
• Motivating & communicative
• Independent, proactive way of working
• High quality awareness

Requirements profile: 
• Successfully completed technical studies in mechanical engineering/industrial engineer
• Several years of experience (10+) in a management position with responsibility for the manufacturing processes (production with batch size 1, special machine construction using metal, ceramics, plastic) in the area of ​​pump manufacturing or turbine construction 
• Confident in planning and implementing lean activities (KVP, SFM, increasing productivity and efficiency) 
• Good knowledge in the areas of work preparation, production logistics, production, manufacturing and order control 
• Strong skills in leadership, motivation and further development of employees
• Structured and timely work with high quality standards
• Teamwork and cooperative behavior
• Fluent German and English skills
• General IT/PC knowledge required (MS Office), as well as ERP and planning systems