Hub Director – Turkey

The Hub Director oversees all operations at the Haznedar Durer site, ensuring top performance in safety, production, quality, and cost efficiency. The role drives continuous improvement, asset reliability, and organizational capability while delivering reliable customer service and aligning the site with Calderys’ strategic objectives.

Responsibilities:

1. Safety, Health & Environment Leadership

• Drive a zero-incident culture, ensuring full compliance with Calderys EHS standards and local legislation.
• Deploy mandatory EHS programs (risk assessments, machine safety validation, occupational hygiene, audits).
• Strengthen behavioral safety and housekeeping discipline, ensuring high shop-floor presence.
• Ensure the site meets ISO 14001 & 50001 requirements and continuously improves sustainability metrics.

1. Production, Quality & Process Performance

• Deliver production volumes in line with demand and customer commitments.
• Ensure robust process control, reduction of variability, and scrap reduction.
• Improve key KPIs: OEE, yield, throughput, capacity utilization, energy efficiency.
• Ensure products meet ISO 9001 and internal quality specifications.
• Lead root-cause problem solving for recurring quality and process deviations.

1. Maintenance & Asset Care

• Implement a reliability-based maintenance strategy (Preventive, Predictive, and Autonomous Maintenance).
• Improve equipment availability and reduce unplanned downtime.
• Develop long-term asset care plans aligned with CAPEX strategy.

1. OPEX, Performance Improvement & Cost Leadership

• Lead the site’s OPEX roadmap, including Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Kaizen, VSM, and Calderys Excellence systems.
• Achieve measurable reductions in conversion cost, energy consumption, and process waste.
• Implement a culture of daily management and performance routines (SQDCP boards, Tier meetings).
• Ensure strict adherence to annual operating budgets and monthly cost tracking.

1. Planning, Logistics & Delivery Performance

• Align production planning, labor allocation, and asset availability to achieve optimal delivery time.
• Improve OTIF (On-Time In-Full) and stock accuracy.
• Ensure supplier reliability for raw materials and manage cost, quality, and availability risks.

1. Finance, Budgeting & Reporting

• Build, deploy, and control the annual budget for the entire site.
• Control daily production costs and react quickly to variances.
• Provide weekly and monthly reporting on:
• Operational performance
• Quality deviations
• Production planning
• Staffing and recruitment needs

7. People Leadership, Culture & Organization Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop the site’s leadership team (Production, Maintenance, Quality, EHS, OPEX, Supply Chain).
• Strengthen accountability, ownership, and teamwork.
• Build competencies to support the transformation: problem-solving, performance mindset, cross-functional collaboration.
• Manage disciplinary actions when required, ensuring fairness and compliance.
• Promote a culture of respect, transparency, engagement, and continuous improvement.

8. Strategic Projects, CAPEX & Long-Term Competitiveness

• Identify CAPEX needs to improve capacity, safety, sustainability, and efficiency.
• Lead or sponsor major investment projects.
• Contribute to the long-term strategic roadmap of the Haznedar Durer site.

Requirements:

Education & Experience

• Engineering degree (Industrial, Mechanical, Process, Chemical, or equivalent).
• 15 years of experience in an industrial environment, ideally within heavy industry, refractory, ceramics, cement, mining, or metallurgy.
• Proven track record managing large operational teams (100+ employees).
• Experience in transformation and turn-around environments is a strong advantage.

Technical Skills

• Solid expertise across all Operational pillars:
• Safety, Production, Quality, Process, Maintenance, OPEX, Supply Chain, CAPEX.
• Strong command of Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong financial and analytical skills (budgeting, cost optimization, KPI management).
• Fluent English & Turkish mandatory; German is a plus.

Leadership Competencies

• Strong presence on the shop floor; highly operational.
• Ability to lead change, influence culture, and drive accountability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Resilient, structured, and able to perform under pressure.
• Customer-oriented mindset and collaborative spirit.

Calderys Group

Calderys is a leading global solution provider for industries operating in high temperature conditions. The Group specializes in thermal protection for industrial equipment with a wide range of refractory products, and advanced solutions to enhance steel casting, metallurgical fluxes and molding processes.

As an international business with a presence in more than 30 countries and a strong footprint in the Americas through the brand HWI, a member of Calderys, we offer our employees a world of opportunity.

With a legacy of over 150 years, and an unwavering commitment to excellence, we continue to shape our future through teamwork, customer-centricity and a proactive mindset. We are the vital partner of all high temperature industries and our purpose places sustainability and innovation at the heart of our business. It reflects our reason for existing: to support our customers building a better world through sustainable solutions.

Our values are a driving force in this purpose: We are tenacious, accountable, multicultural and authentic..

In our company, performance is recognized and learning is promoted. Our services and solutions depend upon the expertise and commitment of our employees. So we ensure that they have the scope and opportunities to develop their potential within a diverse, inclusive and collaborative setting. It is an environment for people to grow, where every day is a new day and more exciting than the last.

Calderys – Forged in legacy. Fueled by excellence.

For more information, please visit Calderys.com

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