ART
manufacturing operations
candidates come from a
wealth of managerial
experiences and training,
bringing your firm
manufacturing leaders who
can balance and work well
with your engineering,
supply chain, and quality
organizations, to help
bring efficient overall
manufacturing
operations to your
company.
In
many cases our
Manufacturing Operations
Heads are in effect the
General Manager of a
business unit. This is
especially the case where
a company has
international operations
outside of their home
country, and the person
needed to run that key
unit needs to be as much a
"business manager" as an
effective factory manager.
In other cases, where a
client has many factories
and needs a competent and
trusted person to make its
plant be as efficient as
possible, ART candidates
are also available.
ART
has been recruiting in the
manufacturing operations
sector since our founding
in 1987. Over the years,
our recruiters have
recruited managers in
virtually every product
line and technology in
existence, across every
possible market. Even more
importantly, ART
recruiters understand the
linkages between R&D,
Engineering, Production,
Process Engineering,
Industrial Engineering,
Quality and Supply Chain.
This means that when given
a Manufacturing Operations
search, ART recruiters
will always first try to
ascertain from the client
which departments are well
run, which are not, and
why or why not. We
take this step as
standard procedure,
because we understand well
that not all manufacturing
operations are the same,
and that sometimes what is
needed in an Operations
Head is a person who
brings in specific
expertise and training
from one of the
constituent departments.
If all is well in the
factory, then perhaps
there is more flexibility
in the profiles that might
be sought.
In
the case of very large
organizations with
multiple plants across
multiple countries, then a
particular personality and
management style might be
required of the Chief
Operations Officer who is
to be recruited.
In
the sometimes hurried
pace of the global economy,
too often companies expect
that the main purpose of
a COO, VP Operations or Plant Manager
is to just make sure that
the manufactured goods ship
out on time without too many
complaints from customers.
At ART, we have a much
higher expectation of our
candidates and our clients.
We want our clients to want
to have the most efficient
factories possible with the
least possible staff
turnover possible. We want
our candidates in turn to
want to be improvers and
builders of their operation,
not simply their
maintainers. Our formula for
the success of both our
clients and candidates is to
find companies and
candidates that want to be
the best for their staff and
customers. One way to
achieve this is to have a
COO, VP Operations, Plant
Manager, etc. who is a
mentor of excellent
managers. Such people have
high records of achievement
at well known leading
companies in their field and
who know how to train and
motivate their managers and
staff to do their jobs with
the greatest efficiency and
enthusiasm possible.
In
addition, we need to see a
candidate's track record of
success in business models
and styles that are
comparable to and suitable
to our client's business
style. A person who is
successful, for example, at
a multi-billion dollar
multinational might find the
resources and expectations
of a great and fast-growing
medium sized firm as
incompatible. By seeking
candidate-client matches
where both parties make
their assumptions about
manufacturing possibilities
and limitations from a
practical and realistic
standpoint, we are all much
more likely to be happy to
see long term comfort and
success in a placement -
candidate, employer and
recruiter alike. Knowing how
to
find such characteristics in Operations
Management candidates comes
from our experience as
recruiters. It also comes
from a desire to build long
term careers for our
candidates at our client
companies.
This
is the difference between
ART and our competition.
We are not just filling
vacancies. We are helping
make our clients better
companies. Companies whose
management wants their
firm to be the best in
their field. Companies
that lead. Companies that
last. How best for
companies to achieve
this success? By
hiring ART candidates
who are empowered to be
the best that they can be!
