Operations Manager Job

About the role

Primary location: Pensacola, Florida. Relocation offered: Yes. Employment status: Full-Time. Travel:

Responsibilities

• Lead the vertical launch of teams and processes while coordinating internal and external resources to ensure performance metrics, project objectives, and deadlines are achieved.
• Serve as a key liaison between leadership and operational teams, driving alignment, accountability, and successful execution of business initiatives.
• Promote the Plant Safety Process by leading the process and maintaining high-level awareness and operating discipline for all plant safety policies.
• Guide and advise supervisors in interpretation of Plant and Company policies and Union contract; help resolve non-routine personnel problems.
• Provide guidance to supervisors throughout the grievance process.
• Drive quality performance of Value Stream operations through systems management and Lean principles, including layered auditing.
• Drive customer awareness throughout the value stream and focus on delivering material that meets customer and regulatory requirements.
• Routinely visit production operations to interact with employees, facilitate/assist in root cause determination for safety, quality, and productivity issues, monitor performance and schedule adherence, monitor product quality characteristics, and gather information to make decisions.
• Coach supervisors and team managers in these areas.
• Assist in determining manpower requirements to meet production schedules.
• Promote good employee relations by interacting frequently with employees and discussing and helping with problems or complaints.
• Encourage supervisors to establish and maintain similar relationships.
• Promote achievement of the plant’s goals and work closely with Value Stream Improvement Champion to drive focus, ownership, and engagement from Value Stream Steering Team, maintenance, and production employees.
• Participate in, sponsor, and support the Lean process.
• Promote effective training of employees and work closely with Value Stream Specialist to drive continuous improvement of training content and execution; promote continuous skill and process knowledge improvement; drive effective crew skill management by supervisors/team managers.
• Promote excellence in housekeeping; promote processes, systems, and Lean events/tools to reduce effort and cost to maintain housekeeping.
• Facilitate the ongoing integration of maintenance and production activities.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED
• 5+ years of demonstrated supervisory and/or operations experience in an industrial production environment
• 3+ years of manufacturing experience
• Computer proficiency in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint with basic skills in SAP and Minitab

Skills

• Ability to lead a large organization spread over a complex production operation
• Presentation, facilitation, and meeting management skills
• Basic project management skills
• Process improvement skills; preferably proven Lean and Six‑Sigma skills
• Basic understanding of maintenance systems (PM, Pd/M) and work planning
• Ability to use data from multiple sources to quickly solve complex operational problems
• Effective writing and data organization skills
• 4‑year Technical or Business Degree (preferred)
• 3+ years of operations management experience (preferred)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, prescription drug, life insurance
• 401k match
• Long‑term disability coverage
• Vacation and sick time
• Personal development opportunities based on strengths and interests
• A working culture that balances individual achievement with teamwork and collaboration

Pay

$115,000 to $135,000 per year (base salary range)

Schedule

Full‑Time