The Company
Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Westinghouse)(https://westinghousenuclear.com) has a 130-year history of innovation that began when their founder, George Westinghouse, commercialized the alternating current and forever changed the way electricity was distributed. The company’s legacy continues in the nuclear era, which originated when they built the world’s first commercial pressurized water reactor in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. More than 60 years later, nearly half of the nuclear reactors in operation around the globe use Westinghouse technology.
The Role
Westinghouse seeks to hire a Senior Vice President, Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing to lead end-to-end manufacturing performance across a global footprint—covering safety, quality, productivity, cost, delivery, sustainability, digital enablement, and talent. The SVP will oversee operations and materials management for five nuclear power industry regulated manufacturing facilities in the US, UK and Sweden. This role ensures compliance with global nuclear regulatory standards and drives innovation through digital enablement, automation, and modular manufacturing techniques. Furthermore, the SVP will own the strategic scope and programs necessary to enable the expansion of the fuel manufacturing function in support of new reactors, new fuel types, and projected future demands. The role reports to the President, Nuclear Fuel and leads a total team of 3500-4000 people.
Experience & Requirements
• 15+ years of experience in leadership roles in complex manufacturing environments.
• Experience leading multi-site, global manufacturing networks.
• Experience in highly regulated and safety-critical industries, including the nuclear industry, is preferred.
• Experience in high-growth, transformational environments with demonstrated success in multi-year operational transformations.
• Experience driving a culture of safety and health performance in a high-risk environment, including experience with safety and environmental regulatory compliance and reporting.
• Track record of embedding safety culture and high-reliability practices. Experience interfacing with regulatory agencies and maintaining license requirements.
• Familiarity with both union and non-union environments and labor relations, including experience managing labor strategies.
• Expertise leading manufacturing operations including multi-site, multi-shift production, maintenance, engineering, and capital projects.
• Experience in forecasting, demand planning, production planning, and capacity planning, SIOP, material flow, inbound and outbound logistics, warehousing, purchasing, and related metrics. Experience optimizing material flow in support of production operations.
• Experience leading product quality and regulatory compliance to ISO standards.
• Experience in CAPEX opportunity evaluation, cost/benefit modeling, risk analysis, equipment layout, and equipment start-up. Experience evaluating CAPEX for digital manufacturing and automation initiatives.
• Demonstrated success in Lean, QMS, EHS operations with measurable KPI improvement. Track record of success in leading Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce operating costs and improve productivity.
• Success developing, communicating, and applying KPIs and metrics to control operational aspects including safety, quality, productivity, inventory, margin, and customer service
• Experience improving employee engagement, retention, and development of employees, supervisors, and managers.
• Proven ability to build technical leadership pipelines and succession plans for manufacturing roles. Leads and holds teams accountable for results and consistent performance.
• A natural bias for action with a focus on results delivery; someone who moves with a sense of urgency and easily anticipates next steps, follow-up actions, and leadership direction.
• A nimble and self-reliant leader, able to work at multiple levels without supervision. Comfortable stepping in and rolling-up their sleeves when necessary.
• Skilled in communicating with internal teams and external stakeholders, including regulatory agencies and strategic customers.
