Operations Manager, Iron Mountain, MI

The Operations Manager is a key leader responsible for driving operational excellence, continuous improvement, and business growth. This role leads manufacturing operations with a focus on safety, quality, productivity, and profitability while developing high-performing teams and delivering best-in-class customer satisfaction. The successful candidate will initially be based in Iron Mountain, MI for approximately one year before relocating to Oklahoma City, OK.

The Operations Manager is a key leader responsible for driving operational excellence, continuous improvement, and business growth. This role leads manufacturing operations with a focus on safety, quality, productivity, and profitability while developing high-performing teams and delivering best-in-class customer satisfaction. The successful candidate will initially be based in Iron Mountain, MI for approximately one year before relocating to Oklahoma City, OK.

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• Provide daily leadership to team members and continuously drive safety culture improvement to ensure safety and wellbeing of the workforce
• Provide daily leadership to team members and continuously drive operational improvement to reduce cost, improve quality, and ultimately drive profitability and customer satisfaction
• Lead adoption and use of best practices across all elements of the value chain and work with other leaders in ISS across multiple site locations
• Support and implement process standardization across multiple facilities
• Support critical decision making processes related to manufacturing and maintenance operations, to ensure the most effective return on assets
• Support the development and execution of strategic planning and business objectives
• Leverage a KPI and performance metrics-driven environment, where timely, relevant, and accurate information drives timely decision making
• Ensure production/staffing needs and capacity and resource planning are in line with sale projections and growth targets
• Create, review, and recommend Capital Equipment Purchases
• Deliver financial commitments to business operating plans, financial cycles, and medium- to long-term financial frameworks, including:
• Actively lead the management of all controllable expenses
• Lead Operations’ participation in the collaborative company forecast process
• Lead proactive communication on any variances in operational activities to the company forecast
• Responsible for handling all Union related issues as they arise including, but not limited to: discipline, labor concerns, negotiations, and act as Management Representative in any related meetings

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Management, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience manufacturing management experience (required)
• 10+ years of experience with Lean manufacturing and/or Six Sigma quality processes (required)
• Proficiency in Excel along with all other computer skills (required)
• Strong knowledge of Financial Management
• Experience in a growth-oriented sales and marketing organization
• Bi-lingual (Spanish & English) preferred
• SAP experience preferred
• Proactive, responsive, and engaged. Driven and takes personal accountability. High energy.
• Operates with a sense of urgency and expects his/her team to do the same, leading by example
• Entrepreneurial spirit and enjoys a fast-changing environment
• Direct communication and working style. Advocates and selects the best idea, not necessarily their own.
• Collaborative, flexible and open-minded. Able to thrive in a team-based environment. Exhibits a high degree of autonomy with a proven ability to pull disparate…