Area Manager - Weekend shift

Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impacton the world around you.

• Thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence.

• Joining a company with a proven track record of success and an exciting future.

At Hach (  ), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better-faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto () network, you'll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you'll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world's everyday water needs, and where you'll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we're working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us:

Water is why
- Evolving for Tomorrow ()

• Flexible working hours

• Permissive Paid Time Off

• Professional onboarding and training options

• Powerful team, looking forward to working with you

• Career coaching and development opportunities

• Health benefits

• 401(k)

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Area Manager – Weekend Shift provides hands-on leadership and direction for assigned areas of responsibility. This role is responsible for planning and executing daily operations to ensure internal and external customer demands are met, while driving continuous improvement of SQDIP through the effective use of continuous improvement tools. The Area Manager also plays a key role in developing a strong continuous improvement culture and leading the team toward operational excellence.

This position follows a weekend schedule:
Friday through Sunday, 5:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Occasional flexibility may be required for meetings on Mondays and Thursdays.

• Lead daily activities so customer, safety, quality, delivery, inventory, and productivity expectations are met.

• Coach, train, and develop associates; manage performance and development planning in partnership with HR.

• Translate customer orders, available labor, and material capacity into weekly and daily build-and-ship plans.

• Create and execute data-driven action plans that improve Standard Work and SQDIP performance.

• Allocate labor, expand cross-training, and improve staffing flexibility across the area.

• Lead projects and partner with planning and technical teams to address operational and process-improvement priorities.

• Ensure associates understand and follow company policies and required work practices.

• Support policy-deployment plans and the development and monitoring of area budgets.

• A BA/BS degree in Physical Science or Engineering or equivalent experience in a manufacturing environment.

• 1 to 3 years of leadership experience, including project-team leadership, staff supervision, or both.

• Experience applying Lean manufacturing methods such as Kaizen, Kanban, root-cause analysis, or countermeasures.

• Experience with machining, injection molding, or mechanical troubleshooting.

• Experience with inventory management.

• Experience using operational data for analysis and reporting.

• Experience leading work where safety, quality, and customer requirements are measured and actively managed.

Hach is proud to part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto…