This position is not just about running plants—it is about building a scalable, resilient global operations engine that enables AMC and AMETEK to win in highly regulated, high value medical markets.

The Divisional Vice President of Operations (DVP Operations) is a key senior leader responsible for end to end global operations across the Advanced Medical Components business. This role leads Safety, Quality, Manufacturing, Maintenance, Continuous Improvement, Engineering, and Supply Chain across a multi site, international footprint.

The DVP Operations is accountable for delivering sustainable, profitable growth while ensuring world class safety performance, regulatory compliance, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction. As a highly visible leader within both the Business Unit and AMETEK Corporation, this role sets the operational standard and drives alignment with long term strategic objectives.

Duties And Responsibilities

Operational Leadership & Safety

Champion a zero injury safety culture and ensure full compliance with environmental, health, and safety regulations across all locations.
Lead global operations spanning six U.S. plants, Mexico, and Taiwan, with direct responsibility for Plant Managers, Engineering leaders, and the Supply Chain organization.
Establish clear accountability and execution discipline to consistently achieve operational, financial, and quality targets.

Strategy, Growth & Execution

Define and execute Plant Operations strategies that support profitable growth, capacity expansion, and entry into new markets.
Enable new product development and sustaining engineering across the AMC Business Unit, ensuring speed to market, design robustness, and manufacturability.
Partner with Sales & Marketing to align operations capabilities with commercial strategy and customer commitments.

Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

Drive a culture of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement, improving quality, reducing cost, and enhancing on time delivery.
Standardize best practices across sites, eliminate redundancy, and scale processes to improve efficiency and agility.
Establish and maintain robust capacity planning and resource alignment to support demand variability and growth.

Supply Chain & Capital Stewardship

Create and continuously improve best in class strategic sourcing and supply chain capabilities across the Business Unit.
Own capital investment strategy and execution, ensuring Capital Appropriation Requests meet ROI and strategic objectives.
Support plant leadership in implementing preventive and predictive maintenance programs to protect uptime, assets, and performance.

People & Leadership Development

Assess, develop, and strengthen the Operations leadership team through objective talent evaluation, succession planning, and targeted development.
Build a high performance culture rooted in accountability, teamwork, and continuous learning.
Lead with humility, integrity, and a hands on mindset—engaged at all levels of the organization.

Business Management & Reporting

Provide accurate and timely forecasts, operating plans, budgets, and performance reports (weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual).
Translate data into insight to guide decision making and course correction across the organization.

Position Requirements

Proven expertise in multi site plant management and operational leadership.
Significant global manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
Minimum of 15 years of progressive business experience, including at least 3 years in a comparable senior operational leadership role.
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required; MBA or Master’s in Engineering strongly preferred.
Demonstrated success growing operations organically, scaling capacity, and entering new markets.
Strong background in asset management, budgeting, and profit plan attainment.
Ability to simplify complex organizations, eliminate redundancy, and drive enterprise alignment.
Thrives in a lean, performance driven culture with high expectations and autonomy.
High personal accountability; places team success above individual recognition.
Confident, credible, and approachable—comfortable engaging at the shop floor or executive level.
High integrity, strong work ethic, and respect for people at all levels.
Executive presence and judgment to engage effectively with senior customers and corporate leaders.
Willingness to travel 30–40% domestically and internationally.

Compensation

Employee Type: Salaried

Currency: USD

Salary Minimum: 195,000

Salary Maximum: $200,000 +

Incentive: Yes

Disclaimer: Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting. The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market / business considerations, and geographic location.

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AMETEK, Inc. is a leading global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets with annual sales over $7.5 billion.

AMETEK is committed to making a safer, sustainable, and more productive world a reality. We use differentiated technology solutions to solve our customers’ most complex challenges. We employ 22,000 colleagues, in 35 countries, that are grounded by our core values: Ethics and Integrity, Respect for the Individual, Inclusion, Teamwork, and Social Responsibility. AMETEK is a component of the S&P 500. Visit https://www.ametek.com/careers for more information.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should call 1 (866) 263-8359.

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