Production Operations Manager

Job Description

Job Description:

The Operations Manager is a hands-on role that will hold overall responsibility for planning, implementing and monitoring the overall production and fulfillment strategies in order to maximize efficiency, ensure customer OTIF and meet safety and quality expectations. This position receives direction from the Plant Manager, interfaces directly across all functional areas and interacts daily with senior leadership.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews

• Preparing and completing Key Initiatives and company goals

• Implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards

• Resolving problems and identifying trends

• Meeting the operations financial objectives by forecasting requirements, preparing an annual operating and capital budgets, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions

• Determining product handling and storage requirements

• Developing processes for receiving products, equipment utilization, and fulfillment

• Developing operational system improvements by analyzing process workflow, manning and space requirements, and equipment layout

• Maintaining a safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures that comply with legal regulations

• Determining manufacturing strategies for the production of hundreds of products into more than 30K SKUs.

• Designing, developing, and engineering new products

• Working with Production Engineering personnel and Production departments to solve any product quality problems

• Providing input to other departments on the design and feasibility of products

• Identifying potential product challenges based on supply chain issues

• Supervising maintenance and repair of the facilities

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Implement strategies to improve performance of employees as well as effectiveness, engagement, accuracy and efficiency.

• Provide mentoring guidance to all subordinates, management or otherwise, across all aspects of their job function.

• Support the development of best practices, including completion of annual appraisals, individual development plans and succession planning.

• Evaluates the internal performance for all aspects of production and fulfillment operations and drives continuous improvement.

• Provides effective leadership to first line leadership with regard to performance management, skills development, attendance, communication and recognition.

Key Competencies:

• In-depth experience in material planning and procurement, inventory control and management, production planning, setting production requirements and managing execution, material movement and service level negotiations.

• Experience in custom manufacturing operations.

• Ability to work with all levels of business customers in a highly dynamic environment.

• Comfortable with working closely across various teams including functional and procurement leadership teams.

• Willingness and ability to work flexible working hours.

Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree; preferably in Business, Logistics Management, Manufacturing Operations, Industrial Engineering or related field.

Required Experience & Skills

• 3 years of Operations management experience.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong supervisory and leadership skills; experience leading a team.

• Extensive experience with SAP ERP system.

• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with a proven ability to create and maintain positive working relationships with vendors, suppliers, shippers, and customers.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Bilingual in Spanish is preferred.

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