Operations Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead daily operations across the Garland and Denton facilities, ensuring consistent execution of safety, quality, delivery, and cost metrics.
• Develop, communicate, and execute production schedules; oversee capacity planning and labor forecasting across both locations.
• Balance manpower, workloads, and production priorities between facilities to maximize efficiency.
• Maintain a strong production floor presence at both sites to drive accountability, engagement, and real-time problem resolution.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for internal scheduling coordination and customer requirements.
• Oversee truck yard operations, vehicle dwell time reduction, and on-time delivery performance.

Financial & Inventory Oversight

• Monitor and control direct labor, rework, and operating costs to improve contribution margins.
• Maintain financial oversight and provide operational performance reporting upstream.
• Ensure oversight and control of company-supplied and customer-supplied inventory across both facilities.
• Monitor operating expenses versus budget and support cost-reduction initiatives.

Safety, Quality & Compliance

• Promote and maintain a safe working environment, ensuring compliance with OSHA, HR, environmental, and quality standards.
• Drive a culture of quality excellence and customer satisfaction across both sites.
• Monitor production quality and warranty performance; ensure effective corrective actions.
• Ensure company policies, procedures, and quality standards are clearly communicated and consistently followed.

Continuous Improvement

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean tools such as Lean Daily Management, and value stream mapping.
• Perform data-driven root cause analysis and implement sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Improve labor efficiency, waste reduction, throughput, and rework costs.
• Lead strategic initiatives to increase operational scalability, flexibility, and efficiency across both locations.

People Leadership & Employee Engagement

• Motivate, coach, and develop production teams across both facilities to achieve high performance.
• Conduct performance evaluations and provide consistent coaching and feedback.
• Ensure employees are trained on equipment operation, standard work, quality expectations, and safety practices.
• Partner with Human Resources on hiring, job descriptions, training matrices, development programs, and retention strategies.
• Conduct floor-level town halls to strengthen communication and engagement.
• Improve employee survey participation and favorability by acting on feedback.

Facility & Asset Management

• Ensure facilities, equipment, vehicles, yards, signage, and infrastructure at both sites are maintained in optimal operating condition.
• Implement improvements to work methods, layouts, and equipment utilization to improve productivity and safety.
• Ensure facilities remain flexible and capable of supporting a diverse range of production requirements.