Operations Manager - 2nd Shift

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee daily production activities to meet safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost objectives.
• Own daily, weekly, and long-term production plans for assigned manufacturing areas.
• Ensure production schedules are met while maintaining efficient workflow, throughput, and labor utilization.
• Monitor production KPIs, including labor efficiency, productivity, scrap, rework, downtime, and schedule attainment.
• Balance staffing, capacity, workflow, materials, equipment, and support resources to meet production demands.
• Identify operational constraints and implement corrective actions to improve production performance.
• Provide leadership and direction to Production Supervisors and Leads while maintaining accountability for team performance.

Operational Support Functions

• Oversee and coordinate Material Handling, Maintenance, and other assigned support functions to ensure production requirements are met.
• Ensure Material Handling teams provide timely movement, staging, and availability of materials needed to support production schedules.
• Partner with Supply Chain to address material shortages, inventory concerns, and production constraints.
• Work closely with Maintenance to ensure equipment, tools, and production areas are maintained and available to support operational needs.
• Prioritize maintenance needs based on production requirements and partner with Maintenance to minimize equipment downtime.
• Monitor recurring equipment or operational issues and support root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Ensure support functions are aligned with production priorities and effectively communicate issues that may impact safety, quality, or delivery.
• Cross-coordinate resources across Production and support functions to resolve day-to-day operational challenges.

People Leadership & Development

• Lead, coach, and develop Production Supervisors, Leads, and assigned support-function leaders.
• Set clear expectations and hold leaders accountable for safety, quality, productivity, attendance, and performance.
• Support hiring, onboarding, training, performance management, promotions, corrective actions, and succession planning.
• Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, engagement, and continuous improvement.

Safety, Quality & Compliance

• Champion a Safety First culture across Production and supporting operational areas.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, HSE, company safety standards, and established work practices.
• Partner with Safety and Quality to investigate incidents, near misses, quality issues, and corrective actions.
• Ensure quality systems, inspections, and procedures are consistently followed and documented.
• Maintain safe, clean, organized, and efficient production and support areas.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and employee engagement.
• Analyze production and operational data to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Standardize processes, work instructions, and best practices across Production and supporting functions.
• Support Lean manufacturing, waste reduction, 5S, and efficiency improvement initiatives.