Senior Manager Operations

Job Summary

The Senior Operations Manager ensures cost, schedule, and quality targets for manufacturing sites, product lines, or work cells are consistently met.

Job Responsibilities

• Capable of resolving complex issues/problems utilizing comprehensive understanding of manufacturing processes
• Manage the development, and monitor execution, of manufacturing schedules
• Develop budgets and manage activities to accomplish financial objectives
• Develop and recommend short- and long-range objectives, consistent with organization guidelines
• Coordinate operations and communications within, between, and among various functional areas
• Ensure operations conform to the organization’s policies and procedures, values, and federal, state, and local regulations
• Establish, monitor, and ensure customer satisfaction
• Engage in the typical responsibilities of a manager requiring planning, evaluating, organizing, integrating, and controlling
• Coordinate team member recruitment and selection, career development, and performance assessment
• Drive continuous improvement through deployment of best practices, such as Lean Six Sigma
• Continually identify and assess risks and deploy proactive mitigation plans
• May participate in the preparation and/or review of proposals for new business based upon RFP/RFQ requirements    
• May coordinate operations and communications within, between, and among various functional areas
• Support, communicate, reinforce and defend the mission, values and culture of the organization       
• Attend applicable internal or external customer meetings
• Participate on special project teams
• Support and lead new product introduction activities
• Maintain knowledge of current manufacturing and continuous improvement trends in the industry
   

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, management or related field, or equivalent
• 7+ years of experience in manufacturing operations.
• Proficient technical expertise with demonstrated application
• Knowledge and familiarity with standards (ISO, AS, etc)
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, negotiation, communication and writing skills