Operations Manager

Enviva•Epes, AL

About The Position

The Enviva team is driven by our shared vision for a renewable energy future. We are a fast-growing, purpose-driven, global energy company specializing in delivering sustainable wood bioenergy solutions. We are the world’s largest producer of sustainable wood pellets, which provide a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. The Operations Manager at Enviva is responsible for leading day-to-day plant operations to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable production. This role drives performance across safety, quality, and throughput while developing and leading teams to meet operational goals. The Operations Manager partners cross-functionally to optimize processes, resolve issues, and implement continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and operational excellence standards.

Requirements

Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering is preferred
Five years' of supervisory experience, delivering reliability improvements in a fast changing manufacturing environment.
Must have experience managing maintenance teams and supporting autonomous manufacturing teams as they deliver continuous improvements.
Must have applied working knowledge of time, condition and predictive based maintenance processes.
Must have experience managing P.M. (Preventative Maintenance) practices.
Proven track record coaching, mentoring, and motivating and managing employees' skills development.
Demonstrated experience proactively leading and coaching teams to solve problems, utilizing automatic line monitoring and other reliability improvement processes.
Experience setting business targets to drive and sustain continuous loss reductions is required.
Must be proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel with the ability to learn other applications related to the job.
Willing and able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees
Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold and noisy industrial environment
Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, to include wearing safety equipment.
Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing and/or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day
Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery
Willing and able to pull and lift, up to 50 lbs.
Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
This position is not eligible for visa support.

Nice To Haves

Experience with TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) Pillars - Autonomous and Effective Maintenance in a process environment is preferred.
Experience with shop floor/information systems (i.e. PC, PLC, and/or Robotics) is preferred.
Working knowledge of Analytical Process Mapping is preferred.
Excellent communication, interpersonal, and team leadership skills.

Responsibilities

Plans, develops, and implements maintenance methods and procedures designed to reduce downtime, supply chain losses, minimize operating costs, and optimize the utilization of technicians, materials and assets.
Partners with manufacturing teams to deliver production targets and quality objectives.
Provides technical expertise to increase the number of zero breakdown machines, reduce breakdown re-occurrences, and increase Mean Time between Failure (MTBF).
Coordinates processes to develop and train maintenance, manufacturing operators, and Team Leaders.
Supports the 8 TPM pillars with technical resources and coaching to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). Coordinates the Effective Maintenance (EM) pillar resources to deliver reliable maintenance processes including: 5S, Visual Factory and spare parts inventories for all new and existing equipment as well as equipment modifications.
Drives improvements during equipment changes to deliver new procedures, breakdown reduction, root cause analysis, as well as risks and hazards.
Maintains an integrated maintenance master plan utilizing quantitative information consistent with business goals.
Provides coordination of support services for machining, welding, electrical and miscellaneous contracted services.
Implements other support pillars to comply with safety, good housekeeping, quality and related regulatory requirements.
Willing to work outside, some lifting may be required; heat and dust can be part of the environment.