Plant Operations Manager

Eaton’s Electrical Sector – Power Distribution & Controls Assemblies (PDCA) business is seeking a dynamic Operations Manager to join our manufacturing site leadership team in Omaha, Nebraska
. Relocation assistance will be provided.

Our non-union site has over 120 employees that work across 2 shifts. This complex site is responsible for large scale, ETO, power assemblies, as well as welding, machining, and painting. US News ranks Nebraska as a top State to live – Omaha’s metro area exceeds 900k residents and is known for its restaurants, world class zoo, and of course home to world renowned Berkshire Hathaway.

• Manage and direct all manufacturing activities to ensure completion of customer requirements.
• Assess performance indicators and take appropriate actions to ensure schedule, cost and quality goals are met.
• Own the short term and long term scheduling and planning process in accordance to SIOP processes. To align all functional partners, resources, and material needs are met.
• Own the short and long-term capital planning process with an emphasis on machinery and productivity in accordance with known operation needs, strategies, and objectives.
• Ensure required documentation and/or system transactions are executed to meet customer, manufacturing system, and financial reporting requirements.
• Assure policies, procedures, and other documentation are followed to ensure consistent and compliant manufactured product.
• Provide leadership and commitment in support of continuous improvements in quality, productivity and delivery performance through the deployment of continuous improvement framework (CIF).
• Support product design organization through new product introduction phase to ensure customer manufacturing delivery times are met.
• Assure that Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) issues are addressed considering local regulations, Eaton policy, and good corporate citizenship.
• Evaluate operational performance of the group to facilitate performance management, merit promotions, job transfers, etc.
• Manage budgets and resource plans, and monitor performance, to achieve product delivery and cost requirements.
• Coordinate and assist with plant initiatives, participating on teams in order to drive best practices across enterprise.
• Coordinate with Human Resources to take care of employee relations issues as they arise within production.
• Achieve labor productivity, reduction of overtime and lead cost reduction efforts to drive factory cost take out.
• Champion implementation of MESH to achieve improvement in year-over-year safety performance measures.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in manufacturing operations, production control and/or manufacturing supervision.
• Minimum of two (2) years of team lead, supervision or people management experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc

• Experience in either operations management, supply chain management, continuous improvement and/or manufacturing engineering in an Engineer to Order (ETO) manufacturing environment
• Experience working with ERP / MRP material systems

• Ability to interpret and collect data to drive decisions and identify improvements
• Proficient use of Microsoft Office products
• Understanding of manufacturing processes, and ability to understand highly technical product designs in order to address production opportunities.
• Strong leadership and coaching capabilities to influence others to drive for results and accountability
• Working knowledge of business systems, accounting systems, industrial engineering, and manufacturing operations and processes.
• Ability to utilize available materials to optimize customer satisfaction in the areas of design, quality, and on-time delivery.

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