Director of Operations

Job description

At Materion, everyone is included, respected and offered opportunity to grow. Join us! The Director of Operations leads all manufacturing operations at the Newton site (all plants), ensuring operational excellence, strategic alignment, and flawless execution. The role drives day-to-day performance while also guiding the site’s long-term Lean transformation, integration activities, and capability development. This position partners broadly across functions and business units to support Newton’s operational stability, customer satisfaction, and competitiveness. You will have the opportunity to: Ensure the Newton factory executes flawlessly and delivers strong performance for all internal business units and external customers. Partner with Operations, Technology, Quality, Supply Chain, and any other assigned functions to maintain safe, reliable, and efficient operations. Oversee Production, Maintenance, Planning, EHS, and technical support through leadership of the Plant Manager and Director of Technology, with dotted-line partnership to the Director of Quality. Drive operational improvement, process improvements and cost-reduction initiatives. Develop and mentor operational leaders....