Primary location: Pensacola, Florida
Relocation offered: Yes
Employment status: Full-Time
Travel:Non-compete: No

The estimated base salary range for this role is "$115,000 to $135,000" per year.
Individual pay is based upon location, skills and expertise, experience and other relevant factors

Under the guidance of the Assistant Plant Manager, the Operations Manager is responsible for leading the vertical launch of teams and processes while coordinating internal and external resources to ensure performance metrics, project objectives, and deadlines are achieved. This position plays a critical role in strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, and effective communication, ensuring the seamless upward and downward flow of information throughout the organization. The Ops Manager will serve as a key liaison between leadership and operational teams, driving alignment, accountability, and successful execution of business initiatives.

What's in it for you?

• Lead High-Impact Operations - Drive safety, quality, productivity, and performance across a complex manufacturing operation.
• Shape Plant Performance - Influence teams, align resources, and drive accountability toward key business goals.
• Drive Meaningful Change - Lead Lean initiatives, cross-functional projects, and strategic improvements that directly impact plant success.

What does an Operations Manager do?

• Promotes the Plant Safety Process by leading the process and maintains a high-level awareness and operating discipline for all plant safety policies
• Guides and advise supervisors in interpretation of Plant and Company policies and Union contract. Helps resolve non-routine personnel problems
• Provides guidance to Supervisors throughout the grievance process.
• Drives quality performance of the Value Stream operations through use of systems management and Lean principles, including layered auditing
• Drives customer awareness throughout the value stream and focus on delivering material that meets customer and regulatory requirements
• Routinely visits production operations to interact with employees, facilitate/assist in root cause determination for safety, quality, and productivity issues, monitor performance and schedule adherence, monitor product quality characteristics, and gather information and input from Supervisors, support staff, and operators to make decisions when. Coaches Supervisors and Team Manager(s) in these areas
• Assists in determining manpower requirements to meet production schedules
• Works to promote good employee relations by interacting with employees frequently and discussing and helping with problems or complaints
• Encourage supervisors to establish and maintain similar relationships
• Promotes achievement of the plant's goals and works closely with Value Stream Improvement Champion to drive focus, ownership, and engagement from Value Stream Steering Team, maintenance, and production employees Participates in, sponsors, and supports the Lean process
• Promotes effective training of employees and works closely with Value Stream Specialist to drive continuous improvement of the content and execution of the training & certification process; Promotes continuous skill and process knowledge improvement; and drives effective crew skill management by Supervisors/Team Manager(s)
• Promotes excellence in housekeeping; promotes processes, systems, and Lean events/tools to reduce effort and cost to maintain housekeeping
• Facilitates the on-going integration of maintenance and production activities

Supervisory Responsibilities: Production Supervisors, Value Stream Improvement Champion, and Value Stream Specialist.

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED
• 5+ years of demonstrated supervisory and/or operations experience in an industrial production environment
• 3+ years of manufacturing experience
• Computer proficiency in, Excel, Word, and Power Point with basic skills in SAP and Minitab

What will make you successful?

• Must demonstrate the ability to lead a large organization spread over a complex production operation
• Demonstration of presentation, facilitation and meeting management skills
• Basic project management skills
• Demonstration of process improvement skills. Ideally, candidate would have proven Lean and 6-sigma skills and be able to effectively apply methods and tools
• Basic understanding of maintenance systems including, PM, Pd/M technologies including and planning of work
• Demonstrate ability to use data from multiple sources to quickly solve complex operational problems
• Effective writing and data organization skills

What will make you stand out?

• 4 year Technical or Business Degree
• 3+ years of operations management experience

Physical and Mental Demands

The 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: sit or stand for prolonged periods; repetitive motion of hands/wrists/fingers; concentrate and repeat the same physical or mental activities over and over; think analytically and be exact or highly accurate; make decisions such as to identify complex problems, develop options and implement solutions; work in a team; ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADAAA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards; pay attention to and remember details; communicate effectively including active listening to understand points being made, and asking appropriate questions and not interrupting inappropriately; speak to convey information effectively; write to communicate effectively as appropriate for the needs of the audience; read to understand work related documents; move between different physical locations within and between buildings; and push, pull, carry and lift in the normal course of travel.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Requires working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions with standard level of noise common to an office environment including office equipment and co-workers speaking to each other and on phones. Employees are required to wear personal protective equipment when entering the floor of manufacturing facilities based on the specific requirements of each location.

About the location (Pensacola, FL)

Pensacola is a vibrant coastal city located in Florida's western Panhandle along the Gulf Coast. Known for its sugar-white sand beaches, emerald-green waters, and rich history, Pensacola offers an exceptional quality of life with a lower cost of living than many major Florida markets. The area combines outdoor recreation, a thriving downtown district, excellent dining, and a strong sense of community. Home to the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels and the National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola blends coastal charm with economic stability, making it an attractive place to live and work.

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