VP of Operations in a Aviation / Aerospace or Electronic Manufacturing Services Company

VP for Lean Six Sigma and Operations, Sal is an experienced transformational leader for turnaround and rapid growth situations. A solutions, cost, metrics and quality focused organizer for Fortune 500 companies such as Jabil, Foxconn, Piper Aircraft and GKN PLC with $4 Billion in P&L responsibility for the high-tech manufacturing of consumer and commercial electronics, avionics, airframe, defense, medical class III, industrial, automotive, and E&I industries; with Secret Clearance. Customers include HP, GE, Emerson, Orbital, Cobham, Honeywell, Toyota, Nokia, IBM, Carefusion, Varian, Finmeccanica, Ericsson, EMC2 and US Army.  Broad global functional experience with High-Volume and High Mix-Low-Volume manufacturing.  Global multi-site responsibility on three continents with production facilities in China, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, France and Hungary.  Lead successful teams driving alignment of vision and objectives through messaging of purpose.  Direct global, cross-functional teams through all phases of product lifecycles and business operations.  Demonstrated successful turnaround of troubled EMS, Computer and Aircraft Companies.  Overhauled manufacturing and supply chain management organizations and expanded Lean/Sigma.  Continuous improvement mindset; achieved aggressive cost reduction results using Lean/Sigma manufacturing methods, focus on metrics (operational / financial) and actions to drive results.

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