Operations Manager I
McCormick · South Bend, IN
- Level
- Manager
- Team
- Production
- Experience asked
- 10+ years
- Industry
- Food & beverage
- Posted
- Recently
The role in 30 seconds
A management production role at McCormick (food & beverage) in South Bend, IN. Works with other functional leaders to develop organizational planning, strategic direction setting and goal setting for the Plant.
- They ask for
- 10+ years
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From the plant jobs report · week of November 2, 2026
Production Engineer roles in Indiana: typical posted base $153k–$204k.
Median of the low and high ends of 6 live postings that list pay, out of 33 production engineer openings in Indiana, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
Indiana plant jobs report →Pay by team and state →What moves pay →
How this role compares
Against 32 other live production postings in Indiana.
- Experience asked
- More than usual (10+ vs 7+)
Similar roles usually ask 7+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Team leadership 42%
- Lean 39%
- EHS / safety 24%
- New product launch 21%
- Root cause 21%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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This plant: McCormick in South Bend
1 other open role at this site.
- Manager Continuous Improvement · Lean / CI · Manager
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Responsibilities
- ◆Identify, prioritize, plans, and directs the execution of operationally related issues for assigned areas through Team Managers. Designs strategies, procedures, and people utilization for improving reliability of equipment, efficiency, productivity, and performance while reducing inventory and waste while maintaining product quality and operating expenses for assigned areas.
- ◆Creating an empowered environment (MHPS) to ensure that the Operations organization and its people understand the goals and objective (OGSM's) of the business and that they have the resource and support to accomplish them. Provide an environment which ensures and provides for open and healthy communications.
- ◆Develop and maintain strong cross functional relationships to ensure that new and existing products are manufactured on time and in specifications to meet customer demand. Ensures strong relationships are developed and maintained with key customers and venders as they relate to the operations function to include fit for use materials and products.
- ◆With the support of continuous improvement (CI) resources, establish and maintain comprehensive continuous improvement processes that maximize productivity, reliability, quality and safety.
- ◆Oversees development and performance planning for current employees, as well as implementing strategic staffing strategies to ensure a robust and diverse succession plan. Ensures operations is appropriately staffed. Champions a thorough and consistent performance management approach for Operations employees.
- ◆Creates operating budgets and capital budgets with other leadership team’s members. Manage department expense budgets with appropriate accounting information and support. Participates in the business planning and budgeting process. Develops short and long-term cost containment/reduction strategies.
Required qualifications
- ✓Minimum of 7-10 years functional/leadership experience
- ✓Bachelor's Degree
- ✓Demonstrated significant and relevant skills and results in functional area
- ✓Strong leadership experience with demonstrated success in managing multiple projects and people
- ✓The job requires a detailed understanding of how all areas of the plant interact to contribute to the business.
- ✓Requires a general understanding of the industry.
- ✓Requires basic commercial awareness as it relates to competition but only requires limited understanding of the latest developments in the industry.
As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.
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You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.
McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.
We are looking to hire an Operations Manager immediately at our South Bend Plant in South Bend, Indiana.
What We Bring To The Table
The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you’d expect from a global leader (401k, health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:
- •Competitive compensation
- •Career growth opportunities
- •Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices
Position overview
Under general direction of the Plant Manager, the Operations Manager oversees the daily production operations of the plant. The Ops Manager utilizes MHPS and continuous improvement methodologies to position the plant's human and capital resources for long term success by ensuring effective and reliable production processes. Provides strategic leadership and direction for multiple operations within the Plant. As a Plant Leadership Team member, works with other functional leaders to develop organizational planning, strategic direction setting and goal setting for the Plant. Is responsible to develop a culture of continuous improvement through process improvement and enhancing employee skills and capabilities.
As a member of the Plant Leadership Team, requires comprehensive understanding of the concepts and principles within their own functional area and also requires basic knowledge of these elements in other relevant functional areas. In order to participate in the resolution of issues, that have an impact beyond just their own area.