Operations Manager

Operations Manager

Directs and coordinates all operating, production / processing, receiving, and shipping activities for a specialty metals processing center.

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following :

Maintains safe operations by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures.

Establishes and implements quality standards, methods, facilities, policies and procedures by studying product requirements. Determines equipment and facility budgets.

Confers with management to establish and implement production and quality control standards, develop budget and cost controls, and obtain information necessary to complete required processing; ensures that shipment of customer orders meet delivery dates / lead times.

Maintains lead times at levels required by customers.

Coordinates activities with the other regions.

Works with select customers to identify and meet their needs.

Develops operations production plan by coordinating requirements with sales, purchasing, and traffic functions.

Completes production plan by establishing priorities, scheduling activities and employees, monitoring progress, and resolving problems.

Coordinates processing activities with sales, purchasing, maintenance, and quality control activities to obtain optimum production and utilization of human resources, machines, and equipment.

Compiles, stores, and retrieves production data.

Reviews and analyzes production, quality control, maintenance, and operational reports to determine causes of nonconformity with product specifications and operating or production problems.

Ensures operation of equipment by establishing preventive maintenance requirements, conferring with manufacturers, contracting for special maintenance services, maintaining equipment inventories, evaluating new equipment and techniques.

Fosters a culture / environment of Continuous Improvement Process (CIP).

Designs and provides employee training / development programs.

Coordinates with the Regional General and Branch Manager to ensure that adequate security measures are established in each location.

Develops and implements operating methods and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve product quality.

Complies with legal requirements by enforcing policies and procedures, i.e., OSHA and EPA compliance.

Supervisory responsibilities :

Will have management responsibility for all operations and warehouse employees at his location / processing center.

Qualifications :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to work in a "team" environment, must be hands-on, PC literate; must have good communications skills.

Personnel style : full engagement of all employees, change agent, problem solver, closer / doer, self starter, clear on expectations, responsible and accountable.

Operating style : customer driven, "one company" concept (what we do is by company, how we do it is by location), goal / results oriented, team based-decentralized, fast / delegated down decision making, open communications, measurement of all key processes and accountability.

Education and / or experience :

The ideal would be a BS Degree in Manufacturing, with previous metals service center experience performing the duties and responsibilities listed above.

Language skills : Ability to read, write, and fluently speak the English language. Ability to read and comprehend concepts of moderate to high difficulty and ability to communicate responses and actions related to these concepts.

Mathematical skills : Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to freely determine ratios.

Computer skills :

Ability to work effectively with common PC programs such as spreadsheets (Excel) and word processing (Word). Ability to learn mainframe program (Metalware).