OPERATIONS MANAGER
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Operations Manager oversees production operations within the plant. He/she will coordinate the activities of the production, shipping/receiving, maintenance, and quality departments in processing materials and manufacturing products to ensure that optimal levels of quality, safety and productivity are met.
Pregis offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package and an opportunity to be part of a winning team!
Position Responsibilities:
- Provides leadership & perform essential management tasks. This is a hands-on management position that supports, coaches, directs and oversee all daily operations of the plant production. Ensuring policies and procedures are followed.
- Reviews factory orders to ascertain product data such as types, quantities, and specifications of products and scheduled delivery dates in order to plan department operations.
- Plans production operations, establishing priorities and sequences for manufacturing products.
- Prepares production and personnel schedules and coordinates manufacturing activities to ensure production and quality of products meets customer specifications.
- Reviews production and operating data and resolves operational and manufacturing problems to ensure minimum costs and highest possible quality, and to prevent operational delays.
- Monitors machines and equipment to ensure specific operational performance, product quality, and optimum utilization.
- Continually champions the Health and Safety of the team members.
Managerial / Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Directly supervises Manufacturing Supervisors, Maintenance Technicians, Quality Assurance Technicians, and Packaging Coordinators.
- Carries out supervisory responsibilities, including: interviewing and providing input on the hiring and training of employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
Work Environment:
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed airborne particles.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Physical Demands:
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk and sit.
- The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch.
- The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to distinguish and identify colors, and the ability to adjust focus.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or other related field.
- 10+ years of manufacturing experience
- 5+ years of manufacturing management/operations leadership experience
- Experience working within an ERP System – SAP Preferred.
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