Segment Leader

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.

With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

Position Summary

CVI Laser Optics is looking for a Segment Leader (SL) with a passion for leading and developing teams and growing the organization by delivering exceptional solutions.  In this role, the SL is responsible for a segment of the CVI business. The SL is responsible for the operations, and engineering functions within their business line. They will effectively define strategy, identify opportunities, and deliver to the customer needs.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for manufacturing high quality product on time against orders within defined segment
• Drives profitability at or above IDEX average
• Effectively implements actions to support grow within specified markets
• Effectively builds, leads, and challenges a cross functional team including: production, supply chain, and engineering
• Builds strong culture of safety, accountability, employee engagement, and servant leadership
• Responsible for defining organizational needs and roles within team
• Serves as segment spokesperson to key stakeholders
• Works collaboratively with the commercial and strategy teams to identify opportunities within market segment to extend capabilities
• Commitment to talent development.  Defines succession plans and cultivates emerging leaders
• Defines investment plans to expand capacity and extend capabilities to maintain leading market position. Champions investments needed to achieve objectives.
• Leads with integrity
• Effectively communication at all levels within the organization
• Achieves commitments to realize company objectives
• Upholds the IDEX values

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong customer focus
• Knowledge of engineer-to-order manufacturing
• Systems thinker with a lean and strategic mindset
• Strong grasp on commercial, financial, engineering, and operational aspects of the business

• Leverages the strengths of the team to achieve common goals
• Acts with humility, encourages help and feedback
• Experience in operational planning
• Knowledge of sales inventory operations planning (SIOP) processes
• Identify, develop, organize, prioritize, and manage projects through cross functional team
• Document effectively
• Demonstrate and practice a detail-oriented approach to work
• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of a variety of database or process software

• Train employees in manufacturing and lean principles
• Hands on approach to learning and teaching others

Credentials and Experience

• B.S. or higher in technical or business related field or the equivalence in work experience.
• Five or more years of experience in manufacturing
• Cross functional roles and experience preferred
• Experience leading cross functional teams preferred

Requirements

Certain positions with IDEX Corporation and its business units require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. Applicants for these positions may need to be "U.S. Persons," as defined in these regulations. Generally, a "U.S. Person" is a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, or an individual who has been granted refugee or asylum status.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws.

Attention Applicants:  If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please let us know. Likewise, if you are limited in the ability to access or use this online application process and need an alternative method for applying, we will determine an alternate way for you to apply. Please contact our Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected] for assistance with an accommodation. These contact tools may be used only by individuals with a disability for accommodation requests. Do not inquire as to the status of an application.