Operations Manager

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Lincoln Electric is a high-performance industrial machinery and technology leader who helps customers manufacture and maintain vital equipment and infrastructure. Lincoln Electric’s innovative solutions enable higher quality and productivity across a variety of processes including welding, cutting, brazing, machining, process automation, and field repair. The Company leverages proprietary technologies and expertise in materials science, power electronics, automation, and intelligent software to help customers build better and achieve resilience in their operations.

Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric is the essential ‘Linc’ that keeps the economy running. The Company operates 71 manufacturing and automation facilities across 20 countries and serves customers in over 160 countries. For more information about Lincoln Electric and its products and services, visit the Company’s website at  .

Location:

Euclid - 22801
Employment Status:
Salary Full-Time
Function:
Manufacturing
Pay Range: ($ - $)
Target Bonus:
15.0%
Req :
30346

The Operations Manager is responsible for transforming business strategy into daily execution by aligning people, resources, processes, and cross-functional priorities to achieve safe, reliable, and profitable manufacturing performance.

The Operations Manager leads through Production Managers, Supervisors, and frontline leaders, stewarding operational systems, building capabilities, and managing accountability required to deliver stable, high-performing manufacturing operations. The role works closely with Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, EHS, Supply Chain, and Continuous Improvement to ensure resources, priorities, and actions are aligned with the plant's most important operational and strategic objectives.

Success in this role requires balancing short-term execution with long-term capability building, ensuring both operational performance and organizational growth. Through Leader Standard Work, tiered accountability, structured problem solving, and talent development, the Operations Manager builds the systems and leadership capability required to sustain operational excellence.

The Operations Manager contributes to our purpose by connecting strategy to execution, developing production leaders, and aligning people, processes, and systems to deliver safe, reliable, and efficient manufacturing performance.

• Own daily plant execution through Tier visual management systems, ensuring alignment to safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people performance objectives.
• Translate business priorities into clear production plans, operating expectations, and resource allocation decisions.
• Lead efforts to improve safety performance, product quality, customer service, productivity, throughput, inventory performance, and operating costs.
• Utilize data, visual management, leader standard work, and tiered accountability processes to identify and eliminate operational losses.
• Drive structured problem-solving and root cause analysis to address chronic operational issues and reduce variation.
• Partner with Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, Supply Chain, and EHS to remove barriers, improve process stability, and support long-term operational excellence.
• Ensure operational readiness, staffing plans, production scheduling alignment, and effective execution of business priorities.
• Lead escalation management and coordinate responses to significant production, quality, equipment, staffing, or customer service disruptions.
• Develop Production Managers, Supervisors, and frontline leaders while strengthening accountability, capability, succession, and leadership effectiveness.
• Utilize talent development tools & systems to support workforce capability and career growth.
• Govern operational standards, performance expectations, resource allocation, workforce planning, and operational decision-making processes.
• Manage departmental budgets, labor utilization, productivity initiatives, and operational improvement investments.
• Embed safety, environmental, quality, compliance, and business continuity requirements into daily operating practices.
• Advise plant leadership regarding operational risks, capacity constraints, workforce needs, performance trends, and strategic opportunities.

The Operations Manager is expected to provide leadership that aligns organizational resources, develops talent, and delivers sustainable…