operations
Posted 4 weeks agoOperations Manager
Middleport, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Lead or support incident investigations, root cause analysis, and corrective actions to continuously strengthen personal and process safety.
- Drive Production Performance Own daily and weekly production execution to ensure on-time delivery, high quality, and cost control.
- Optimize labor utilization, equipment efficiency, material usage, and product yields across formulation and packaging operations.
- Collaborate with scheduling, warehouse, and logistics teams to ensure smooth material flow and accurate inventory management.
- Develop and Lead High-Performing Teams Lead and develop production supervisors, engineers, and schedulers.
- Build a culture of engagement, accountability, and continuous learning through coaching, performance feedback, and skill development.
- Enable Growth and Continuous Improvement Lead continuous improvement initiatives to increase throughput, reduce costs, and improve quality.
- Support site and corporate capital projects from concept through execution.
- Collaborate on production scheduling strategies to improve flexibility, reduce changeovers, and support seasonal demand.
- Support Innovation and New Products Play a key role in introducing new products by supporting process design reviews, hazard analyses, SOP development, training, and scale-up.
- Ensure new processes are safe, stable, and efficient as they transition into routine manufacturing.
Requirements
- Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Chemistry, or a related technical field.
- Experience leading operations in a chemical manufacturing or formulation environment. Proven leadership
- experience in a manufacturing environment with both salaried and hourly employees (union experience preferred). Preferred
- Experience & Skills Strong knowledge of Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement tools (Kaizen, 5S, SMED, SPC).
- Experience with process safety, root cause analysis, and Management of Change (MOC) practices.
- Strong analytical and systems skills (advanced Excel required; SAP and statistical software preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to lead change, develop teams, and deliver results.