Regional Operations Manager

Trelleborg Group•Denver, CO

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Regional Operations Manager will lead the regional operations agenda and translate BU and global operations strategy into clear priorities, standards, and execution plans for the Americas sites. This role involves establishing and sustaining harmonized core operations processes, governance routines, definitions, and management systems across the region, aligned with global standards. The manager will define the non-negotiable operating framework and decision rights, while enabling General Managers and Plant Managers to retain accountability and operational freedom. A key aspect of the role is to drive site and regional performance in safety, on-time delivery, quality, productivity, cost, working capital, and customer service through robust review, escalation, and improvement mechanisms. The position acts as the senior operational partner to site leaders, providing challenge, coaching, cross-site coordination, and support without displacing local line accountability. The role also involves identifying systemic risks, capacity constraints, and performance gaps early, ensuring transparent escalation and sponsoring corrective or transformational actions when regional intervention is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree is required.
10+ yrs of senior leadership experience in multi-site manufacturing operations, ideally across more than one country in the Americas.
Demonstrated experience leading General Managers, Plant Managers, or senior operations leaders in a matrixed, international organization.
Proven record of improving safety, delivery, quality, productivity, and cost performance through operating systems and sustained continuous improvement.
Experience with strategic workforce and capacity planning, capital allocation, operational risk, business continuity, and transformation programs.
Experience harmonizing processes across diverse sites while respecting local legal, customer and operational requirements.
Working knowledge of ERP, planning, performance management, and digital manufacturing environments; SAP experience is advantageous.
Fluent English required.
All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. Green Card Holder), Political Asylee or Refugee.

Nice To Haves

Spanish and/or Portuguese are advantageous for the regional scope.

Responsibilities

Own the regional operations strategy, annual priorities and performance cadence, aligned with the BU President Operations and global functional leaders.
Champion Safety@Work across all sites by reinforcing consistent expectations, governance, leading indicators, incident learning, audit follow-up, and a culture in which safety is integral to every operational decision.
Improve OTD and service reliability by ensuring disciplined production planning, capacity visibility, constraint management, effective escalation, and cross-site collaboration.
Drive sustainable efficiency and productivity improvement through operational excellence, lean manufacturing, process standardization, digitalization, automation, and structured problem solving.
Lead regional capacity and footprint thinking, including business continuity, capital prioritization, and network optimization recommendations.
Coordinate strategic workforce planning with site leadership and HR, translating demand, technology, productivity and footprint scenarios into capability, headcount, succession, and skills requirements.
Build a strong regional leadership pipeline by coaching site leaders, supporting succession planning and enabling exchange of talent and expertise across sites.
Ensure consistent operating reviews with clear KPIs, actions, owners, and follow-through; provide concise and transparent reporting to BU leadership.
Facilitate sharing and replication of best practices across the Americas and contribute regional expertise to global operations communities and improvement programs.
Partner with Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Engineering, Product Line Management, IT and Safety@Work to resolve cross-functional issues and deliver integrated outcomes.
Sponsor major improvement, recovery, and transformation programs, including post-acquisition integration and process harmonization where applicable.
Ensure operational compliance with applicable laws, internal policies, the Integrated Management System, and delegated authorities; reinforce timely closure of audit and risk actions.
Provide leadership during critical incidents, significant customer or supply disruptions and business continuity events, ensuring coordinated decisions and communication.
Serve as process and document owner, or executive sponsor, for assigned regional operations processes in accordance with IMS governance.