Operations Manager, Hot Line
Constellium · Ravenswood, WV
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Production
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 7+ years
- Industry
- Metals
- Posted
- 20 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A management production role at Constellium (metals) in Ravenswood, WV.
- They ask for
- 7+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, Extrusion, EHS / safety
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Production Engineer roles in the US: typical posted base $115k–$164k.
Median of the low and high ends of 384 live postings that list pay, out of 1249 production engineer openings in the US, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
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- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Typical (7+ years)
Typical $107k–$153k, from 323 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 7+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 44%
- ✓ Lean 38%
- ✓ EHS / safety 26%
- Root cause 24%
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Stands out: this posting asks for Extrusion, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Constellium in Ravenswood
4 other open roles at this site.
- Casting Engineering Specialist · Manufacturing
- Automation Engineer · Controls
- Central Maintenance Manager · Reliability · Manager
- Millwright · Reliability · Technician
Full description from ConstelliumAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Job Summary
The Operations Manager will oversee the day-to-day production activities within the hot rolling and scalping departments, ensuring safe, efficient, and cost-effective operations. This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise in the hot rolling processes and equipment, and a commitment to continuous improvement…both within hot rolling and cross department initiatives.
Responsibilities
- ◆Safety Management
- ◆Championing a strong culture of following plant safety standards
- ◆Conduct audits and correct non-compliant behaviors and situations
- ◆Quality Management
- ◆Work hand in hand with department and site level quality team
- ◆Participate and lead continuous improvement initiatives
- ◆Production Management
- ◆Direct and coordinate all operations to meet production targets
- ◆Monitor process parameters and KPIs to optimize process
- ◆Ensure compliance with metallurgical and customer specifications
- ◆Leadership
- ◆Supervise and mentor production foremen and shopfloor employees
- ◆Develop training programs and KPIs to enhance employee skills
- ◆Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, and operational excellence
- ◆Report out regular updates to Senior Management
- ◆Operational Efficiency
- ◆Identify and implement lean manufacturing processes where needed
- ◆Develop tools to determine mill availability and capacities
- ◆Work hand in hand with maintenance department to prioritize jobs and timeframes to complete them
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, or related discipline, required
- ✓7+ years of experience in aluminum rolling operations, required
- ✓At least 3 years of experience in leadership roles, required
- ✓Strong knowledge of hot rolling processes and mill equipment, required
- ✓Proven track record in safety, quality, and process optimization, required
- ✓Excellent leadership, communications, and problem-solving skills, required
- ✓Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a team environment, required
- ✓Ability to pass pre-employment testing under specific area of discipline, required
- ✓Willingness to learn, required
- ✓Ability to adapt to a new environment, required
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Dimensions
- •Scope
- •This position is responsible for the scalping and hot roll departments and all production activities within
- •Magnitude
- •Over 100 hourly employee organization
- •Communications
- •Work closely with Maintenance, EHS, Planning, and Quality
- •Challenges
- •Leadership under pressure….must lead teams through a complex, high risk process. They need to inspire confidence, maintain discipline, and make quick decisions when unexpected issues arise:
- •Throughput vs. Quality
- •Maximize output while ensuring spec compliance
- •Reliability vs. Cost Control
About Constellium
With ~1,100 employees, Constellium’s plant in Ravenswood, West Virginia, is one of the world’s largest rolled products facilities, offering customers the most powerful plate stretchers in the world, as well as one of the largest cold rolling mills. Built in 1957, the plant houses 62 acres (about 250,900 m²) of production facilities, and is one of the top 50 businesses in West Virginia.
We produce plate, sheet, and coil products for aerospace, defense, transportation, marine, and industrial uses. As the global leader in aluminum aerospace technology, we specialize in high performance plates, sheets and extrusions that bring cost and performance benefits to space programs and military and commercial aircraft. Our advanced aluminum products manufactured in the US, France and Switzerland can be found in platforms manufactured by Airbus, Applied Materials, Blue Origin, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault, Embraer, General Dynamics, LAM, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and others. The Ravenswood facility is nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, along the Ohio River. It is the largest employer in Jackson County, and one of the top 50 businesses in West Virginia.
A culture of family, community, and hard work runs deep in Jackson County. Located in the western region of West Virginia, it is one of the most productive regions in the state, with Ripley as its county seat and Ravenswood serving as its largest municipality. Ripley sits between the Parkersburg and Charleston metropolitan areas.
The region offers plenty of activities, both open-air and indoors, for a wide range of interests. These include parks, lakes, forests, Civil War trails, golf courses, historical landmarks (covered bridges, a heritage house, a castle), museums and galleries, conference centers, the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, the Charleston Light Opera Guild, and much more.
regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.