Vice President, Asset Management

About The Role – Vice President of Operations, Maple Ridge, BC (RST Instruments & Navstar)

We are excited to announce an opportunity at Orica for a Vice President of Operations within our Digital Solutions team. The position has overall responsibility for enabling business growth by translating the strategies of the RST and Navstar brands into operational priorities and executing (delivering results) against those priorities.

What You Will Do

• Develop People and Teams: Lead the Quality, Supply Chain Management (Strategic and Tactical Purchasing, Materials Management, and Logistics), Production, Production Planning and Control, and Manufacturing Engineering teams.
• Establish Priorities: Collaborate cross functionally to translate business priorities and external and internal customer needs into operational priorities.
• Develop Action Plans: Lead operational plan (1.5-2yr horizon) development and execution, including KPI target setting and management (including OpEx and CapEx).
• Build a Positive Culture: Foster a culture of trust, accountability, autonomy, creativity, and results. Develop the Safety First and Quality Built-in mindset.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

What You Bring

• People: You value learning and people development and have enjoyed developing a high performing team with bench strength for succession – a team where everyone has a sense of purpose, applies their strengths, grows, and delivers business results.
• Vision: You created an inspiring, aligning operational vision that the team understood, applied practically to help self guide decisions, and rallied around to build strong improvement momentum.
• Supply Chain Excellence: You have effectively collaborated across Orica Digital Solutions brands to understand unique and common requirements and created an integrated supply chain that is fast (short lead-time and cash efficient), flexible (supports high growth and changes in product mix), reliable (consistently produces high quality product and mitigates risks), and cost effective.
• Processes Excellence: You value Lean philosophy and practice, foster creativity, and continual learning, and have utilized your coaching and teaching skills to elevate organization process improvement capability to a world class level. The workflows that you have led your team in developing are flexible, scalable, and highly intuitive, and have enabled the business to quickly adapt to changes in the pace of growth.
• Results: You are an action oriented person, thrive in the team win, and fail fast and learn from any failure. You have developed a rigorous yet administratively light goal deployment and KPI monitoring process and have consistently delivered excellent business results.
  

Role Dimensions

The role reports to the COO and its prime focus is driving effective execution. KPIs include Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost (COGS, GM), and Inventory.

Your Qualifications

• 15+ years experience in manufacturing / operations / supply chain related roles. Experience in low-mid volume / high mix, engineered-to-order and configured-to-order environments is highly valued.
• 10+ years personnel leadership experience, including coaching / teaching of operational management skills.
• Proven influencing and change management skills.
• Advanced knowledge and skills in Lean manufacturing practices.
• Working knowledge of gated product development & commercialization processes.
• Previous experience in adjacent roles is an asset – e.g. Engineering, Project Management, Sales, and Ops Planning.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Operations Management.
• Advanced education in business (e.g. MBA) is an asset.
• Lean certification is an asset.
• Project management certification is an asset.
• Change management certification is an asset.

How You Shape and Influence Others

• Demonstrates courage, models resilience and flexibility.
• Possess unquestioned reputation for integrity, ethics, personal values and solid character.
• Builds the trust of others.
• Strong stakeholder management, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-aware and open to feedback.
• Strong attention to detail, with a high level of accuracy, integrity & accountability.
• Work effectively across business unit boundaries to develop and align diverse stakeholders.
• High level decision making & problem solving skills.
• Self-motivated, well organized and logical, with ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Strong people management and influencing skills.

About Orica

At Orica, it’s the power of our people that leads change and shapes our futures.

Every day, all around the world, our people help mobilize vital resources essential to progress. Established in 1874, we have grown to become the world leader in mining and civil blasting with a diverse team of more than 13,000 across the world.

It’s an exciting time to join us – we are shaping the future of mining through digital and automated technologies, embracing new ways of thinking, pioneering innovation, and reimagining the way we work.

Orica USA Inc. has been recognized as one of the top companies for women to work for in the transportation industry by the Women in Trucking Association (WIT) in 2023 and 2024.

What We Offer

As part of a truly global company, you will have the ability to grow and learn in a diverse, collaborative culture. We foster relationships and learning through connected global and local teams, promote flexible and diverse career paths and support the development of your knowledge and skills.

You will be paid a competitive salary, learn from talented individuals across multiple disciplines and be able to thrive in a safe workplace within a collaborative culture. Ignite your career at a place where your distinct potential can find its home.

Compensation

• Full Time Salary
• $175K - $210K

(Salary to be determined by the applicant’s experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)

Orica does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need Orica Immigration Sponsorship (e.g., H1-B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) now or in the future.

Employee Benefits (Full Time Position)

• Company events
• Extended health care
• Dental care
• Vision care
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
  

Orica promotes and fosters a culture of inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment everywhere we operate. We treat our people and applicants with fairness, dignity, and respect, getting the best of everyone’s contributions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, nationality, age, military or veteran, marital or disability status.

We have been made aware that some individuals have received scam emails which include false and invalid offers of employment from Orica. Please note that Orica will not offer employment to any candidate without first undertaking a formal application and recruitment process. All candidates are required to actively participate in the recruitment process applicable to the specific role and location where the role is based, prior to any offer of employment being made.