Operations Manager (Industrial Manufacturing Exp Req, $130K-$150K)
Rhodes Wolfe · Knoxville, TN · 1 mo ago
On-siteManagementFull-time
Responsibilities
- Oversee daily plant operations, ensuring efficiency, productivity, and on-time customer delivery
- Lead compliance with safety and regulatory requirements, industry standards, company policies
- Address business needs with operational strategies to increase productivity and reduce costs
- Maintain quality control, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement programs
- Build, develop, lead, and evaluate high-performing operations team and ensure positive culture
- Develop and manage production metrics, operational budgets, and plant performance reporting
- Collaborate internally to optimize business/financial performance and support accurate costing
- Develop procedures and processes to maintain quality, efficiency, and operational standards
- Recommend process, equipment, facility improvements to enhance manufacturing capabilities
- Lead visual management, 5S, and operational excellence initiatives
- Support facility expansions, equipment installations, and transition projects as needed
Qualifications
- Engineering degree required
- 7+ years industrial manufacturing or machining experience required
- 5+ years direct people-management experience required
- Proficiency in production scheduling, workload management, and delivery metrics required
- Experience managing operational budgets and ERP systems required