Operations Manager

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Manage all operations processes, employees, and projects. This position exercises discretion and independent judgement with respect to matters of significance.

• Administer company safety program, including performing safety audits when necessary and stressing the importance of safety to all employees.
• Plan, direct, and prioritize elevator installations and modernizations, service/repairs, and labor needs; utilize project management software and other scheduling tools.
• Manage staff, schedules, and review and approve payroll.
• Monitor use and assignment of vehicles.
• Use accounting reports and programs to review job status to identify risk and opportunity, including properly reporting fade issues prior to revenue.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with contractors, elevator consultants, construction firms, and architects.
• Survey, review, and sign off on all bids, including attending pre-bid meetings with construction sales representatives and providing technical input to calculate labor and material costs.
• Review and sign off on change orders, purchase orders, elevator turnover authorizations, accounts receivable, write-offs, credits, and other necessary approvals.
• Maintain strong familiarity of company standard operating procedures and products by attending company training classes, viewing factory equipment updates and supplier goods; interface with corporate departments, including the factory, coordination, and labor, and consult with the management.
• Mediate and resolve complaints and problems of external and internal customers, including meeting with local business agents to resolve issues involving union employees.
• Determine what materials need to be ordered for job completion, coordinate, order, and arrange for sub-contracting portions of installations and service/repairs.
• Manage budget and spending.
• Perform necessary requirements, such as applying for and obtaining permits and scheduling permit inspections at job completion.
• Regularly communicate with field staff and make weekly crew visits and day one visits to manage safety, site activities and progress of employees and customer, document findings.

15 – Mechanics

• Education:
  
  High School Diploma or equivalent
• Experience:
  
  Minimum 5 years in industry
• Requires a valid driver’s license, a satisfactory Motor Vehicle Report, and forklift certification.
• Local Travel Expectations: 15%

• Technical Professional Knowledge
• Teamwork and Cooperation
• Communication
• Problem Analysis
• Conceptual Thinking
• Decision Making

• Job duties are performed within an established office environment under normal lighting and climate‑controlled tolerances. The noise level in the work environment is typically low to moderate.

• When the employee has cause to visit a work site, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts, high, precarious places and outdoor weather conditions. The noise in the work environment often loud.

• Requires a consistent physical presence at the branch office to oversee shared services functions and employees, normally achieved by working standard business hours. Certain positions will require a flexibility of working hours to meet the demands of the job and the direction of the manager.

• The work environments are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Prolonged periods of standing and walking.
• Frequent reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 40 pounds at times.

The 2025 base pay scale for this position and career level is below:
$113,708 to $136,205
This base pay range represents the anticipated low and high range of wages for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on…