(S) Operations Manager

Howmet Aerospace•Morristown, TN

About The Position

The Operations Manager will be responsible for managing production flow from beginning to end, participating as a lead staff member responsible for operations and performance. This role provides overall leadership and direction to direct reports responsible for all aspects of manufacturing. The manager will lead multi-disciplinary plant teams in meetings to establish monthly forecasts and associated business metrics from a continuous improvement perspective. They will develop and provide strategic manufacturing direction and planning for a 1-3 year horizon, utilizing lean manufacturing techniques, automation, and Kaizen disciplines. The role involves participating in operational budget preparation, coordinating capital plans, appropriation requests, and project follow-up. Key responsibilities include implementing quarter-over-quarter improvement strategies to increase efficiency, spend performance, customer delivery, and plant safety. The manager will oversee day-to-day manufacturing process activities to maximize safety and best practices, analyze and implement process flow, inventory, and velocity improvements throughout the value stream, and monitor production workflow and inventory levels to ensure schedules are met and bottlenecks are corrected. This position requires interfacing with various functional areas like planning, sales, quality, engineering, and finance to foster a cooperative spirit, drive continuous improvement, and enhance customer satisfaction. EHS compliance is critical, requiring adherence to safety regulations and department-specific safety requirements.

Requirements

A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in an Engineering, Manufacturing, or Business discipline, or equivalent experience.
Skills in leadership, effective written, oral, and telephone communications.
Basic computer operation.
Interpersonal skills.
Analytical analysis skills.
Persuasion skills.
Organizing and planning skills.
Decision making skills.
Decisiveness.
Perseverance.
Ability to function effectively in a team environment.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents.
Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
Ability to write speeches and articles using original or innovative techniques or style.
Ability to make effective and persuasive speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, scientific equations, graphs, musical notes, etc.) in its most difficult phases.
Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.
Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
This position entails access to export-controlled items and employment offers are conditioned upon an applicant's ability to lawfully obtain access to such items.

Nice To Haves

Lean manufacturing techniques
Automation
Kaizen disciplines

Responsibilities

Manage production flow from beginning to end.
Participate as lead staff member responsible for operations and performance.
Provide overall leadership and direction to direct reports responsible for all aspects of manufacturing.
Lead multi-discipled plant teams in meeting to establish monthly forecasts, as well as all associated business metrics (net margin, revenue, LU, scrap, etc.), from a continuous improvement perspective.
Develop and provide strategic manufacturing direction and planning for 1-3 year planning horizon, utilizing lean manufacturing techniques, automation, & Kaizen disciplines.
Participate in the operational budget preparation and coordinate capital plans, appropriation requests, and project follow up.
Implement quarter over quarter improvement strategies to increase efficiency, spend performance, customer delivery, and plant safety performance.
Manage day to day manufacturing process activities to assure that safety and best practices are maximized.
Analyze and implement process flow, inventory, and velocity improvements throughout the entire value stream system, which includes key supplier base and outside vendors.
Monitors and manages the production workflow and inventory levels to ensure that production schedules are met, and bottlenecks are identified and corrected.
Interfaces with a variety of functional areas such as planning, sales, quality, engineering, and finance to ensure cooperative spirit, continuous improvement initiatives, and customer satisfaction are continually enhanced.
EHS compliance follow Safety Regulations along with all department specific safety requirements.