SGS & Co

Operations Director

SGS & Co$115K — $125K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in industry/manufacturing or equivalent experience.
  • Experience managing personnel, teams, or departments.
  • Competent in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
  • Experience/knowledge in printing or print tool manufacturing, using industry equipment preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Lead successful day-to-day site operations and execute business strategy in alignment with company goals.
  • Resolve personnel and departmental issues promptly and professionally.
  • Develop, maintain, and enforce standard operating procedures (SOPs) that support consistent operations.
  • Manage monthly business KPIs, including billing, quality, safety, and operational performance.
  • Collaborate with senior management to forecast and manage capital and operational budgets for the site.
  • Supervise local management to ensure effective department performance.
  • Foster trust, continuous improvement, and high performance among staff.

Benefits

  • Selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage.
  • Dental and vision plan options.
  • Basic and supplemental life insurance.
  • Flexible spending accounts for medical and dependent care expenses.
  • Short/long term disability coverage.
  • 401(k) Savings Plan.
Full Job Description
OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

Position Summary

The Operations Director is a key member of the site leadership team, responsible for leading talent, production, quality, and Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) to deliver safe, efficient, and fiscally responsible operations. This role collaborates with senior stakeholders to execute business strategy, manage budgets, and ensure the overall performance and success of the site.

Essential Responsibilities

Operations Leadership
  • Lead successful day-to-day site operations and execute business strategy in alignment with company goals.
  • Resolve personnel and departmental issues promptly and professionally.
  • Develop, maintain, and enforce standard operating procedures (SOPs) that support consistent, compliant, and efficient operations.
  • Responsible for the identification and suggestions of capital site improvements to include scope, quotations, justifications, and senior management approval requests and successful execution of approved projects.

Financial & Business Performance
  • Maintain a safe, healthy work environment by enforcing EH&S standards, procedures, and legal requirements.
  • Manage monthly business KPIs, including billing, quality, safety, and operational performance, while meeting or exceeding budget expectations.
  • Ensure the fiscal health of the site by making sound, strategic, and responsible business decisions.
  • Collaborate with senior management to forecast and manage capital and operational budgets for the site.

Customer & Cross-Functional Partnership
  • Partner with Sales on new business, cost savings, and growth opportunities.
  • Coordinate across Prepress, Manufacturing, Sales, Account Management, and Project Management.
  • Participate in decisions regarding site operations, staffing, and company policies.
  • Partner with production leadership to ensure workflow effectiveness and 100% quality compliance.
  • Advise senior management and account managers on customer timing, delivery, and service expectations.
  • Resolve customer issues and improve the overall customer experience.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to improve on-time delivery, product quality, and customer service.
  • Provide technical support for internal and external customers as needed.

People Leadership
  • Supervise local management to ensure effective department performance.
  • Maintain staff communication through regular facility and department meetings.
  • Manage direct-report performance and support continuous learning.
  • Coach direct reports and build a high-performing management team.
  • Conduct annual performance reviews.
  • Foster trust, continuous improvement, high performance, morale, and alignment with company
  • Partner with Human Resources on workforce planning, budgeting, policy, compliance, and performance development.
  • Responsible for screening, hiring, and onboarding team members to achieve site and company objectives.
  • Support corporate Human Resources initiatives.

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in industry/manufacturing or equivalent experience.
  • Experience managing personnel, teams, or departments.
  • Competent in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel.
  • Experience/knowledge in printing or print tool manufacturing, using industry equipment preferred

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
  • Working knowledge of manufacturing operations and equipment.
  • Knowledge of print processes and related downstream applications.
  • Ability to research problems and implement timely solutions
  • Ability to manage large, multi-shift teams across departments.
  • Proven ability to lead through high-performance, participative management.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Capable of presenting a broad range of company information and products to internal and external
  • Ability to set priorities and delegate based on customer and business
  • Self-driven and self-motivated.
  • Understanding of EH&S policies, including training and reporting.
  • Strong attention to detail as well as organizational and documentation skills.

General Expectations
  • Comply with all company standards, policies, procedures, and applicable regulations.
  • Willing to take on additional responsibilities as needed.

Physical Requirements

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. The following physical requirements are commonly performed in this job. There are times, on occasion, when the employee may be asked or expected to perform duties with physical requirements that are different from those listed here. It is the employee's duty to notify the management of any physical limitations or inability to perform a certain task.
  • Vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus (Munsell Color Test results).
  • Use hands to reach, grasp, handle, and feel.
  • Talk and hear.
  • Required to stand and walk for most of shift.
  • Regularly required to lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.

Travel Requirements
Travel within North America is required on an occasional basis.

NOTE: This document describes the general nature, purpose, responsibilities, duties, skills, abilities, and workload associated with this role. It is not intended to include every responsibility that may be required, does not constitute an employment contract, and may be updated at any time.

For more information visit: www.SGXgraphics.com

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $115,000 - $125,000 USD annually. Ultimately, in determining pay, we will consider the successful candidate's location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Group benefits currently include a selection of health care plans with prescription drug coverage, dental plan, vision plan, basic and supplemental life insurance, a flexible spending account for medical and dependent care expenses or a health savings account based on plan selection, short/long term disability and 401(k) Savings Plan.

About SGS & Co

SGS ) is a Swiss multinational company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland which provides inspection, verification, testing and certification services. It has more than 93,000 employees and operates over 2,600 offices and laboratories worldwide. It ranked on Forbes Global 2000 in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2021. The core services offered by SGS include the inspection and verification of the quantity, weight and quality of traded goods, the testing of product quality and performance against various health, safety and regulatory standards, and to make sure that products, systems or services meet the requirements of standards set by governments, standardization bodies or by SGS customers.
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