Sr. Operations Manager - Onsite

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable, and more connected world.

About the Role

The Senior Operations Manager is a strategic operations leader responsible for driving performance across multiple operational value streams in a manufacturing environment. This role provides leadership for end-to-end execution across Production, Warehouse, and other assigned operations functions, ensuring strong delivery in safety, quality, customer service, cost, and employee engagement. This leader will strengthen and evolve the operating management system by developing new processes, standardizing execution across shifts and departments, and applying data-driven decision-making to improve throughput, quality, inventory performance, labor efficiency, and accountability.

The role requires a strong people leader with demonstrated success in talent assessment, leadership development, frontline engagement, conflict resolution, and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate is an experienced operations leader who is close to readiness for a Plant Manager role within 1 to 2 years, with the capability to lead broad plant priorities, influence cross-functional strategy, and build a culture of accountability, discipline, and respect.

Responsibilities

• Operational Leadership & Business Performance
• Operating System & Process Development
• Data, Analytics & Digital Management
• Talent Assessment, Coaching & Leadership Development
• Frontline Engagement & Accountability Culture
• Conflict Management & Work Environment
• Continuous Improvement & Manufacturing Excellence
• Cross-Functional Leadership

Key Performance Expectations

• Safety performance and EHS leadership
• Customer complaints / quality performance
• Production attainment / schedule attainment
• OEE and productivity improvement
• Labor efficiency and cost performance
• Inventory accuracy and materials flow discipline
• Employee engagement and retention
• Leadership bench strength and succession readiness
• Effectiveness of operating reviews, action closure, and accountability systems

Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or a related field required; Master's degree is preferred.

Experience:

• 10+ years of experience in operations or a related field
• Extensive operational background extending beyond production management, including management leadership experience in one or more manufacturing support functions such as supply chain, warehouse operations, manufacturing engineering, quality, or continuous improvement
• Experience leading both results delivery and organizational capability building in a plant environment
• Proven success implementing process improvements, standardization, and performance systems in operations
• Demonstrated experience developing leaders, assessing talent, and building succession capability
• Strong experience engaging frontline employees and improving accountability and work culture
• Experience managing conflict and driving performance in fast-paced industrial environments
• Strong working knowledge of manufacturing excellence tools and systems, including Lean Manufacturing, OEE, PFMEA, Six Sigma, and structured problem solving
• Strong business acumen and ability to use data and analytics to drive operational decisions
• Readiness and aspiration to move into Plant Management in the near term

About TE Connectivity

TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. As a trusted innovation partner, our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal, and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers enabling artificial intelligence, and more. Our more than 90,000 employees, including 10,000 engineers, work alongside customers in approximately 130 countries.

Pay

Competitive base salary: $142,800–$214,100 (subject to change dependent on physical location). Total compensation includes base salary, incentives, and benefits.

Benefits

A comprehensive benefits package including:

• Health insurance
• 401(k)
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time off
• Voluntary benefits