Vice President, Manufacturing - Full-time

DISH is a Fortune 200 company with more than $15 billion in annual revenue that continues to redefine the communications industry.  Our legacy is innovation and a willingness to challenge the status quo, including reinventing ourselves.  We disrupted the pay-TV industry in the mid-90s with the launch of the DISH satellite TV service, taking on some of the largest U.S. corporations in the process, and grew to be the fourth-largest pay-TV provider.  We are doing it again with the launch of the first live, internet-delivered TV Service – Sling TV, that bucks traditional pay-TV norms and gives consumers a truly new way to access and watch television.

Now we have our sights set on upending the wireless industry and unseating the entrenched incumbent carriers.

We have a bold sense of pride, adventure, and desire to win – it’s in our DNA.  And we’re looking for people with boundless energy, intelligence, and an overwhelming need to achieve to join our team as we embark on the next chapter of our story.

Opportunity is here.  We are DISH.

A successful Vice President of Manufacturing will have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in an Engineering or Business discipline and 10+ years related work experience, including 5+ years management experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.   MBA or Master's degree strongly preferred.
• A strong working knowledge of manufacturing, product development and procurement processes.
• Being both a strategic and operational leader in manufacturing (and in the future, supply chain management), delivering technical knowledge gained from prior experience in these areas including in-house and outsourced manufacturing environments.
• Strong sourcing, purchasing, negotiation, planning and materials knowledge. Ability to drive projects to a successful completion.
• Demonstrated experience developing and managing an operating budget.
• Proven ability to create and maintain strong business relationships and influence suppliers.
• Demonstrated experience as a change agent with ability to build trust, influence and communicate at all levels in the organization.
• Ability to motivate team efforts to accomplish goals and recognize success.
• Skilled at understanding complex business needs and decision drivers within an organization able to consider available facts, constraints, competitive circumstances and, probable consequences of various actions.
• Six Sigma or Lean qualifications with demonstrated implementation experience; OSHA, Workers Comp and EEO experience preferred.

The Vice President of Manufacturing is a newly created role responsible for the operation of several internal and outsourced operations in the US and Mexico and over time will have an important role in bringing on future suppliers and partners. In all, over 3000 hands-on employees and contractors make up Manufacturing’s large, diverse, multi-shift workforce, conducting millions of repair events each year.   In addition to day-to-day responsibility for these operations, The Vice President of Manufacturing works closely with the leaders of Manufacturing’s Transportation, Engineering, Forecasting, Finance, Materials, Distribution and Quality Assurance teams to realize fast, high quality repair services.  This role has a very high degree of responsibility and visibility to Executive Leadership with a solid career path to larger roles in the organization.

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Managing multiple factories to meet fulfillment commitments to the sales team at required labor efficiencies while keeping repair material costs on plan and maintaining high product quality.
• P&L responsibility for multiple cost centers. 
• Leading transformation of current business model of buying products from a narrow range of incumbent suppliers to one of strategic sourcing of new products from new suppliers.
• Career and succession planning for key employees and organizational development as business needs evolve.  
• Management and hourly employee recruiting, training, development, engagement and retention. 
• Ensuring acceptable inventory accuracy and physical inventory management processes for both on-site and off-site stored material. 
• Employee safety, meeting or exceeding OSHA safety requirements and managing the safety results of the operations in terms of the workers compensation incident rate and the associated expense on claims related to safety. 
• Future areas of position growth may include development of a global supply chain strategy working closely with Product Development, Marketing, In-Home Services, Manufacturing, and Procurement.

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