Hubbell Inc

Operations Manager, Iron Mountain, MI

Hubbell Inc • $100K — $120K *
Iron Mountain, MI 49801In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Management, or related field
  • 10+ years of experience in manufacturing management
  • 10+ years of experience with Lean manufacturing and/or Six Sigma processes
  • Proficiency in Excel and other computer skills
  • Strong knowledge of financial management
  • Experience in a growth-oriented sales and marketing organization
  • Bi-lingual in Spanish & English preferred
  • SAP experience preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead team members in promoting a safety culture and improve workforce wellbeing
  • Drive operational improvements to reduce costs and enhance customer satisfaction
  • Adopt best practices across value chain and collaborate with leaders in multiple sites
  • Support process standardization across facilities
  • Facilitate critical decision-making for manufacturing and maintenance operations
  • Assist in developing and executing strategic planning and business objectives
  • Utilize KPI-driven environment to support timely decision-making
  • Manage production needs and resource planning to align with sales projections
  • Recommend capital equipment purchases
  • Oversee union-related issues, including discipline and labor negotiations

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional growth and relocation assistance after initial year
  • Engagement in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment
  • Collaboration with high-performing teams
  • Exposure to leadership roles in operational excellence
  • Continuous improvement culture focusing on quality and profitability
Full Job Description
Job Overview

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.
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A Day In The Life

Every day at Hubbell is different and you'll contribute in many ways. On any given day, you'll make a difference by:
  • 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


What will help you thrive in this role?

  • 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
  • Bi-lingual (Spanish & English) preferred
  • SAP experience preferred
  • 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

About Hubbell Inc

Hubbell Incorporated is an American company that designs, manufactures, and sells electrical and electronic products for non-residential and residential construction, industrial, and utility applications. Hubbell was founded by Harvey Hubbell as a proprietorship in 1888, and was incorporated in Connecticut in 1905. It is ranked 602 by Fortune. The company’s reporting segments consist of the electrical segment and the Power segment. Hubbell’s manufacturing facilities are located in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the People's Republic of China, Italy, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Australia and maintains sales offices in Singapore, China, India, Mexico, South Korea, and countries in the Middle East. Hubbell was previously headquartered in Orange, Connecticut, and has now moved its headquarters to Shelton, Connecticut. Hubbell Inc. assisted Allied efforts during World War II by manufacturing military vehicle electrical circuits, battery-charging systems for M4 Sherman tanks, power jacks for test meters, vacuum tube sockets for radio communications, and a line of electrical and electronic connectors for aircraft. Hubbell Inc. is in List of S&P 400 companies having stocks that are included in the S&P 400 stock market index, maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices.
Learn more about Hubbell Inc
Size
18,300 employees
Market Cap
$12.6 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$351.2 million
Founded
1888
5 Year Trend
+3.7%
Revenue
$4.1 billion
NASDAQ
HUBB
* Ladders Estimates

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