The Senior Operations Manager for MLS Manufacturing is a pivotal leadership role providing continuous improvement initiatives and participating in financial planning and budget management for MLS Motor Controls amp; Packaged systems division. This position is responsible for working cross functionally while effectively and successfully managing labor, productivity, quality control, supply chain, budget and safety measures. This position reports to MLS Manufacturing Business Unit Manager.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Management oversight of production, warehouse, and production planning teams
Essential Functions:
- Production planning and supply chain management, implements and maintains a strong sales and operations planning process to ensure optimal inventory levels to meet forecast demand
- Works with the Supply Chain group to optimize raw, MRO, sub-assembly, and finished goods inventory
- Establishes process and metrics indicative of supply chain health and capacity planning, production lead-time determination etc.
- Management oversight of the operations team directly and/or indirectly including oversight of operations, continuous improvement initiatives, warehouse activities, build center, customer service, logistics and quality control
- Provides cross functional leadership including: supervising, planning, coordination and direction of production activities, ensuring maximum operating efficiency and product quality
- Establish KPIs to drive continuous improvement, recognize gains in safety, efficiency, productivity and cost control while enabling business growth and ensuring excellent customer service
- Improve the operational systems, processes, policies in order to support better management reporting, information flow, business process, organizational planning to provide feedback to the production, product marketing, and sales teams
- Financially responsible for the analysis and budget performance of OPEX amp; CAPEX budgets
- Fluent with Lean manufacturing tools and able to use them to engage employees and improve performance
- Responsible for safety, health and environmental performance of operations as well as compliance to government regulations including EPA, OSHA and local authorities
- Build, mentor, and guide the Operations team through people development plans, one on one interactions, and team communications
- Performs other duties as required or assigned, which are reasonably within the scope of the duties in this job classification
Requirements
- 8-10 years of progressive operations experience with increased levels of responsibility required, of which 2-3 years are in a similar level position
- Advanced knowledge of ERP systems in a manufacturing and distribution environment
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, intermediate to advanced Excel, and computer skills
- Experience creating, implementing, and monitoring operations processes
- Hands-on experience creating and monitoring functional KPIs, including the ability to create reports, mine data from an ERP system, and present to Sr. Management
- Experience implementing ERP and other operational systems preferred
Competencies Required:
- Collaborative Leadership: Generates cooperation among one’s peers in leadership to achieve a collective outcome; foster the development of a common vision and fully participates in creating a unified team to achieve results
- Relationship Building: Work across departments to build collaborative relationships and gain organization-wide buy-in
- Forward Thinking: Able to anticipate the implications and consequences of situations and take appropriate action to be prepared for possible continencies
- Leadership and Management: Able to apply techniques and skills to measure organizational effectiveness by establishing qualitative and quantitative performance standards
- Analytical thinking capability: ability to leverage data-driven arguments to make decisions
- Communication: able to articulate thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively in written and oral forms to internal and external customer
- Strategic Thinking: Able to analyze the organization's competitive position by considering market and industry trends, existing and potential customers (internal and external), and strengths and weaknesses as compared to competitors.
Education Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or Operations, required
- Master’s Degree, preferred
- Industry certifications and/or training (APICS, Six Sigma, Lean, etc.) preferred
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to remain at a stationary position 50% of the time
- Abili