Manager Operations

Ensures cost, schedule, and quality targets for manufacturing sites, product lines, or work cells are consistently met. Operations manager responsible for leading a large paint team across multiple programs, buildings, and shifts. Will be responsible for direct leadership and development of supervisors that manage union technicians on the production floor. Needs to manage schedules and critical paths to allow multiple internal customers to meet contractual requirements while maintaining process control and monitoring KPI's.

• 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
• Communicate professionally and effectively with customers, peers, senior managers and theam members
• Technical ability to learn understand relative processes (CARC Paint Processes) to maintain control amoung team and prepare bid and proposal estimates
• 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 members 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
• 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
  

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, management or related field, or equivalent
• Proficient technical expertise with demonstrated application
• Knowledge and familiarity with standards (ISO, AS, etc)
• Excellent interpersonal, leadership, negotiation, communication and writing skills
• Proven expeience (typically 5-10years) in an industrial painting environment, paint shop or similar manufacturing environment preferred