Area Manager, Management Operations Manager

This person will coordinate all of the safety, quality, and production related activities of the Process Inspection, Weld, Waterjet and factory stores departments.

• Meet daily with members of Operations Management, Safety, Quality, and Maintenance to identify issues and projects.
• Attend Monthly safety meetings. Coordinate daily and monthly safety inspections, as well as monthly safety bullpen meetings.
• Attend weekly quality meetings. Identify quality issues in the department, and provide meaningful and useful corrective and preventative actions for those issues.
• Meet daily with supervisors and managers of all production departments to prioritize schedules and plan around obstacles.
• Take ownership of department P&L report. Monitor and control labor, expenses, and services.
• Prioritize and schedule machine maintenance and planned downtime.
• Monitor employee productivity and coordinate giving feedback to employees about their productivity target and actuals.
• Manage supervisors and clerk to meet the needs of the departments.
• Take on additional duties as assigned by the Director of Operations.

• Ten to fifteen years of experience with a minimum of three years as an Area/Department Manager.
• A B.S. degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Metallurgical Engineering is considered ideal.
• An M.B.A. would be a plus as some knowledge of finance is needed.
• Candidates with other educational experience, but with appropriate career experience will not be overlooked.

• Needed is a proactive, self-confident, assertive, dedicated, engaged (bordering on passionate), can do businessperson with a natural leadership style.
• Open-minded, team oriented, detailed oriented and thick skinned.
• Possess strong interpersonal skills to be able to work with the union and salaried workforce.
• An interest in teaching new skills and developing people, not be afraid to introduce change, and have the ability to dig in and be hands on when required.