Operations Manager, Iron Mountain, MI
Hubbell Incorporated•Breitung Township, MI
•Onsite
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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
- 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 pieces together across the organization and ‘get things done.’
- Establishes a high degree of personal accountability among his/her team and enables the team to hold each other accountable, challenging the status quo, and fostering an environment of new ideas and change
- A successful record of progressive career trajectory with expanding roles and responsibilities
- Diverse functional experience is highly desired, including supply chain and logistics, manufacturing, design/engineering
- Demonstrated ability to recruit, lead, manage, and mentor a high-performing, data-driven team.
- Excellent coach and team leader who can champion change.
- Ability to define and execute an operational strategy requiring close cross-functional coordination
- Deep experience with Lean manufacturing principles
- Strong analytical and financial skills
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills
- Experienced problem-solver
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
Nice To Haves
- Bi-lingual (Spanish & English) preferred
- SAP experience preferred
Responsibilities
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
