Senior Director, Operations - Salem - Agility Robotics

Description

Agility Robotics is a pioneer. Our robot, Digit, is the first to be sold into workplaces across the globe. Our team is differentiated by its expertise in imagining, engineering, and delivering robots with advanced mobility, dexterity, intelligence, and efficiency -- robots specifically designed to work alongside people, in spaces built for people. Every day, we break through engineering challenges and invent new solutions and capabilities that will one day make robots commonplace and approachable. This work is our passion and our responsibility: our mission is to make businesses more productive and people's lives more fulfilling.
Job Summary:
The Senior Director of Operations is responsible for leading and optimizing the Production, Service, and Manufacturing Engineering (sustaining) departments to ensure operational excellence, scalability, and consistent delivery of high-quality products and services. This role provides strategic and hands-on leadership across end-to-end operations, aligning people, processes, and performance with overall business objectives.
Duties/Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute operational strategies that support company growth, efficiency, and profitability
• Oversees the manufacturing engineering organization, including new-product introduction (NPI) and sustaining teams.
• Leads organization responsible for development of manufacturing and assembly bill-of-process for NPI products and ongoing efficiencies for sustaining products, ensuring optimized and standardized work instructions and operating procedures.
• Leads organization in ensuring safe, ergonomic, and efficient processes developed and implemented while maintaining production, quality, and reliability metrics.
• Leads manufacturing engineering organization in advanced technology development and implementation of novel and enhanced manufacturing and assembly processes to drive ongoing efficiency and quality standard improvements.
• Leads manufacturing engineering organization in design-for-manufacturing and design- for-assembly (DFx) optimization, partnering with product engineering organization on design changes and efficiencies. Oversees manufacturing engineering in tooling and fixture design for mass production, ensuring key production metrics achieved including mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) and mean-time-between-failures(MTBF).
• Oversees the manufacture and assembly of components, sub-assemblies and products, ensuring production, performance, and quality standards are consistently met. Oversees the maintenance operating system, ensuring preventative and predictive maintenance actions and standards are met to achieve above standards. Responsible for both internal factory operations, as well as contract-manufacturing standards and adherence to process. Ensures standardized repair processes are followed and oversees the repair line.
• Oversees manufacturing execution system (MES) for maintaining shop-floor control and ensuring adherence to regulatory compliance requirements and quality control operating system.
• Oversees operations test engineering organization, responsible for production test installation, bring-up, gauge repeatability and reproducibility (R&R), setting mass production test specification range with product engineering, and ensures test cycle times and test fixtures fit mass production line layout and line speed.
• Oversees the refurbishment department, responsible for refurbishing returned customer products ensuring renewed performance and quality standards are consistently met. Oversees the facilities organization, ensuring company buildings and sites are safe and compliant to local codes.
• Leads product cost reductions to achieve cost targets related to non-materials constituents, including labor, consumables, scrap, rework and production capital equipment.
• Reviews production reports to ensure safety, quality, financial, and delivery goals and standards are met.
• Assists chief operations officer with long-range operating goals, expansion efforts, and implementation of new and advanced technology.
• Identifies and shares training opportunities for staff to build and improve skills.
• Organizes departmental management structure and teams for optimal, efficient operations.
• Works with the chief financial officer and finance department to develop the operating budget.
• Delivers progress and production reports to executive team members as requested.
• Supervises equipment purchase, maintenance, and layout.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Minimum 15 years of related experience and bachelor's degree in engineering.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent organizational and managerial skills.
• Thorough understanding of the policies and practices used in the manufacturing division.
• Ability to set long-term goals and communicate them to others.
• Ability to motivate and organize multiple efforts to accomplish goals.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job as this is subject to change at any time with or without notice. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give such instructions or assignments.
Work Environment & Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee routinely is required to sit; talk and hear; use hands to touch, feel, handle, push/pull and move objects; see details of objects that are less than a few feet away; see differences between colors, shades, and brightness. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk and move around the office; stoop, kneel, crouch, twist, crawl, reach, and stretch; and see details of objects that are more than a few feet away.
This is an onsite position at our Salem, OR office.
The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Agility Robotics is a multi-state employer and this salary range may not reflect positions who work in other locations. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Anticipated Base Salary Range
$226,000-$294,000 USD
In addition to base pay, our competitive total rewards package consists of:

• 401(k) Plan: Includes a 6% company match.
• Equity: Company stock options.
• Insurance Coverage: 100% company-paid medical, dental, vision, and short/long-term disability insurance for employees.
• Benefit Start Date: Eligible for benefits on your first day of employment.
• Well-Being Support: Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Time Off:
  • Exempt Employees: Flexible, unlimited PTO and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown.
  • Non-Exempt Employees: 10 vacation days, paid sick leave, and 10 company holidays, including a winter shutdown, annually.
• On-Site Perks: Catered lunches four times a week and a variety of healthy snacks and refreshments at our Salem and Pittsburgh locations.
• Parental Leave: Generous paid parental leave programs.
• Work Environment: A culture that supports flexible work arrangements.
• Growth Opportunities: Professional development and tuition reimbursement programs.
• Relocation Assistance: Provided for eligible roles.
• Annual Discretionary Bonus: Provided for eligible roles.

All of our roles are U.S.-based. Applicants must have current authorization to work in the United States.
Agility Robotics is committed to a work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individual has the right to work in a professional atmosphere that promotes equal employment opportunities and prohibits unlawful discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, it is the policy of Agility Robotics to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Agility Robotics prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.
Agility Robotics does not accept unsolicited referrals from third-party recruiting agencies. We prioritize direct applicants and encourage all qualified candidates to apply directly through our careers page. If you are represented by a third party, your application may not be considered. To ensure full consideration, please apply directly.