Job Description
Job Description Summary As Senior Director, Operations & Lean for our Advanced Visualization Solutions (AVS) Probes business, reporting directly to the General Manager, AVS Probes, you will be a key member of the leadership team responsible for driving operational excellence, organizational effectiveness, and strategic execution across a global, cross-functional environment. This highly visible role offers the opportunity to shape how the business operates, champion Lean transformation, and lead initiatives that deliver meaningful results in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Innovation, and People—while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and accountability across sites and functions. Job Description 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 in partnership with the General Manager, ensuring clear escalations, decision flow, follow-up discipline, and alignment to business priorities. Partner operations/supply chain interfaces 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. Partner with Product Quality and 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 the Probes staff and global RDOs network, including daily management, standard work, leader standard work, problem solving, kaizen, VSM, visual management, and action tracking. Build Lean capability in the organization by coaching leaders and teams, developing practitioners, and embedding repeatable operating mechanisms rat
