Operations Manager

Job Band : 5A

Hiring Manager: Christopher Ashley Daniel

HR Rep: Kristina Marie Welm

The Operations Leader has primary responsibility for managing production operations at the manufacturing facility. This salaried leadership role directs the work of Front Line Supervisors, Operations Coordinators, and assigned operations personnel and exercises independent judgment in establishing priorities, allocating resources, managing performance, and delivering business results. The Operations Leader implements organizational strategies, standards, and practices to achieve best-in-class performance in the following areas:

• •Environmental, Health & Safety – Ensuring that our employees live injury-free lives and being a model for Safer Together
• •Quality – producing zero defects or failures to customer

• •Lead a culture where safety is a core value, ensuring a safe, secure, clean, and environmentally compliant workplace for employees, contractors, and visitors.
• •Provide the leadership, resources, training, and systems necessary to drive toward zero injuries and environmental non-conformities.
• •Establish clear safety expectations and accountability while recognizing and reinforcing safe behaviors.
• •Utilize safety metrics, near-miss reporting, assessments, and incident trends to identify risk and continuously improve performance.

• •Lead manufacturing operations to achieve objectives for safety, quality, service, productivity, cost, and environmental performance.
• •Lead Autonomous Maintenance (AM), TPM, Lean, Six Sigma, standardized work, and continuous improvement to improve equipment reliability, operating efficiency, quality, and cost.
• •Optimize labor, materials, equipment, and resources while ensuring production schedules, customer specifications, and quality

• •Translate plant strategy into clear operational priorities and lead execution of short- and long-term business plans.
• •Develop and manage operating and capital plans, including manpower, production, capital investments, and resource requirements.
• •Apply data-driven decision-making to improve productivity, eliminate losses and defects, control costs, and strengthen overall plant performance.
• •Partner across plant functions and customer-facing organizations to align priorities, meet customer expectations, and achieve business objectives.

• •Create an inclusive, engaged, and high-performing workplace characterized by trust, accountability, teamwork, open communication, and recognition.
• •Promote employee ownership of business results and strengthen engagement through consistent leadership and communication.
• •Maintain positive employee and labor relations through consistent application of company policies, labor agreements, and applicable requirements.
• •Monitor engagement, retention, employee feedback, and organizational effectiveness to identify opportunities to strengthen the workplace.

• •Build organizational capability by attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining high-performing talent.
• •Develop front-line leaders and direct reports through clear expectations, coaching, performance management, development planning, and accountability.
• •Build a strong internal talent pipeline and succession plans for critical roles while supplementing talent through external recruiting as needed.
• •Address performance issues appropriately while recognizing strong performance and creating opportunities for employees to grow and assume greater responsibility.

• •Customarily and regularly direct the work of at least two full-time employees or the equivalent through assigned salaried and hourly leadership structures.
• •Make, or provide recommendations given particular weight concerning, hiring, termination, promotion, discipline, advancement, compensation, and other changes in employment status for direct and indirect reports.
• •Set departmental objectives, assign and direct work, assess performance, address conduct and performance concerns, and ensure leaders and employees are held accountable for results.
• •Exercise discretion and independent judgment on significant operational matters, including staffing, scheduling, resource allocation, production priorities, risk response, and escalation of business issues.

• •Serve as a key member of the plant leadership team, driving alignment and collaboration across Operations, Maintenance, EHS, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, Human Resources, and other functions.
• •Model effective leadership by challenging thinking, sharing best practices, providing candid and respectful feedback, and building strong cross-functional partnerships.
• •Lead and support plant-wide initiatives and high-performance teams that improve overall plant and business results.
• •Support the Plant Leader in executing site strategy, organizational priorities, and other crit