Operations Manager

Multi-Color Corporation Recruiting • Winona, MN

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About The Position

The Operations Manager is responsible for overall site production operations and plant production performance. The role establishes a work environment focused on safety, quality, delivery, and cost-effectiveness, develops teams to achieve corporate improvement objectives, and ensures production objectives are met cost-effectively. The Operations Manager drives organizational best practices and leads process improvement.

This hands-on leadership role coordinates production resources and staffing, monitors performance against targets, identifies and addresses root causes of variance, and leads Lean and continuous-improvement activities. It also directs plant supervision, supports team development, and evaluates methods, equipment, and capital investments that may improve production efficiency or resource use.

Requirements

• Degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology, or Business, or equivalent 10 years of staff-level leadership experience.
• At least 7 years of experience in Operations Management and/or Lean Management.
• Experience as a change agent in complex transformational activities.
• Significant experience implementing Lean principles in manufacturing operations.
• Ability to use structured problem-solving methodologies to determine root causes and develop effective countermeasures.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Hands-on leadership, high integrity, positive influence, strong business acumen, comfort with change and change management, a continuous-improvement mindset, and a commitment to exceeding customer and company expectations.

Nice To Haves

• Printing industry experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate, directly and through delegation, activities needed to meet safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets.
• Ensure compliance with behavior-based safety initiatives and continuously improve safety performance.
• Execute quality control plans, ensure compliance with standards, and reduce process variation.
• Assess on-time delivery and develop actions to improve and sustain performance.
• Manage costs through effective oversight of labor, overtime, and expenditures.
• Determine weekly staffing requirements and redeploy resources as needs, priorities, or schedules change.
• Analyze production reports, identify root causes of budget variances, and develop and execute corrective actions using structured root-cause analysis and Lean Policy Deployment methodologies.
• Use Lean principles to form teams and improve productivity, decrease lead times, reduce waste, and meet customer quality requirements.
• Recommend and initiate cost-reduction programs involving capital improvements when return-on-investment and payback criteria are favorable.
• Promote, prepare for, participate in, and sustain the results of kaizen activities.
• Facilitate daily Gemba walks and ensure appropriate use of hour-by-hour, SQDC boards, and War Room tools.
• Coordinate appropriate required-to-operate and required-on-roles staffing levels with the Human Resource Manager.
• Direct plant supervisors to ensure consistent application of human resource policies, procedures, and plant rules, and adherence to safety accountability guidelines.
• Coach and mentor team members to support their ongoing development.
• Monitor trends and developments in production methods, techniques, equipment, tools, materials, and supplies; research and recommend capital equipment purchases.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• 401(k).
• Paid holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and two floating holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager