Sr. Manager Operations Management

About the role

We are seeking a Sr. Operations Manager to provide hands-on leadership for all production operations within the Franklin Furnace manufacturing facility. This role is responsible for driving safe, efficient, and high-quality manufacturing while ensuring production schedules, customer delivery commitments, and operational performance objectives are consistently achieved. This individual will work closely with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, and other cross-functional teams to remove barriers to production and improve on-time delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead all day-to-day production operations, ensuring the safe, efficient, and timely manufacture of products while meeting plant attainment, schedule adherence and customer expectations.
• Provide direct leadership, coaching, and development to production managers, supervisors, team leads, and manufacturing employees.
• Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, engagement, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as the primary operational leader for the facility, ensuring production resources, staffing, equipment, and materials are effectively aligned to meet daily and long-term production goals.
• Drive production performance through execution of manufacturing priorities.
• Partner closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Maintenance, and Planning to proactively resolve production issues, eliminate bottlenecks, and improve manufacturing flow.
• Improve standard work, implementing visual management, facilitating continuous improvement initiatives, and driving sustainable process improvements.
• Monitor and drive key performance indicators (KPIs) like schedule attainment, schedule adherence and on-time delivery.
• Establish clear expectations, communicate business objectives, and maintain a visible leadership presence on the production floor through daily engagement with employees.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of managerial experience.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing, operations, plant management, or a related industrial environment.
• Demonstrated success implementing lean practices in high-mix, low-volume environments
• Strong analytical, communication, and team-building abilities
• Knowledge of Lean tools (Kanban, SMED, 5S, Kaizen, A3)
• Ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions.
• Experience working with MRP/PLM systems and manufacturing dashboards.

Skills

• Leadership & Team Development
• 5S & Continuous Improvement
• Communication & Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Problem-Solving & Root-Cause Analysis
• Planning, Organization & Prioritization
• Change Management & Process Discipline
• Safety & Quality Focus
• Operational Excellence Mindset
• Ability to Drive Results in Fast-Paced Environments