Operations Manager

Tuff Shed

$75K — $95K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years in operations management within a production environment
  • Experience in recruiting, hiring, and training employees
  • Strong understanding of DOT and OSHA regulations
  • Proven track record in business-to-consumer sales of large-ticket items
  • Excellent communication skills at all organizational levels
  • Ability to solve complex business challenges strategically
  • Familiarity with inventory management and negotiation with suppliers

Responsibilities

  • Manage daily production and installation operations effectively
  • Oversee logistics, ensuring efficient shipping and receiving processes
  • Recruit, train, and supervise operations team members
  • Conduct safety inspections and enforce compliance with safety regulations
  • Manage inventory accuracy through regular cycle counts
  • Cultivate subcontractor relationships and ensure quality standards are met
  • Coordinate customer service efforts to resolve warranty issues

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible Savings Account (FSA) available
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) for long-term employees
  • Paid Time Off and paid holidays
  • 401(k) plan with company contributions
  • On-Demand Access to pay for faster payment options
  • Extensive training and mentorship programs for career growth
Full Job Description
Tuff Shed is recruiting for anexperienced and highly motivated Operations Manager to contribute to the success of ourFactory Store.

This position offers the opportunity to make a real impact to the Store and the Company.

Check out what "A Day in the Life" looks like for our Operations role:
https://youtu.be/TMaGa3tvH_w

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Production & Installation Management

  • Working directly with the Operations employees
  • Manages the logistics including shipping, receiving, PACK, and communication to the cross docks
  • Under the direction of the DM, recruiting, hiring, training, and supervising the performance of the operations teams
  • Following the direction of the DM, supervise Installation function, reviewing sales orders to ensure financial and logistical criteria have been satisfactorily met
  • Oversee daily planning/scheduling of the Operations team's manpower and materials
  • Perform customer service duties, such as resolving warranty issues by reviewing and scheduling work to be performed as required to satisfy the customer and fix the Tuff Shed product(s)
  • Assisting the DM with daily, weekly, and monthly corporate document submittals
  • Operates the Factory efficiently and effectively in order to produce the assigned and expected profitably
  • Maintain appropriate staffing levels to maximize production and maintain labor costs as budgeted
  • Under the direction of the DM and in conjunction with the Production Manager and/or the Production Foreman, performing fabricator employees' performance evaluations, as required; also, preparing and conducting fabricator employees' disciplinary actions and making recommendations to the DM regarding counseling, warnings and/or terminations
  • Ensures that building quality, communication, and customer experience are in alignment with the Company expectations and its impact on the Tuff Shed brand
  • Manages the Company's Warranty Program and ensures that it is followed, and any required repairs are conducted in a timely manner

Safety
  • Performing daily safety walk-through inspections of the Shop area and the Yard
  • Implements and carries out the Company's Safety Programs and ensures compliance to DOT regulations, including the management of all associated records
  • Preparing, scheduling, and leading store safety meetings, trainings and work-related injury investigations as required by OSHA guidelines and Tuff Shed Safety Department.
  • Ensure tools and equipment are secured, inventoried and maintained, and meet safety requirements

Inventory/Materials
  • Performing monthly cycle counts and ongoing inventory management
  • Certifies the Store's inventory is accurate by conducting monthly physical inventory counts
  • Makes sure that all material is ordered in a timely manner, meeting production schedules while minimizing inventory costs
  • Effectively negotiate and develop relationships with local suppliers to ensure that materials are purchased at or below standard cost

Subcontractor/Installer Relationship
  • Recruits and onboards subcontractors to surpass 35% of the store's revenue budget
  • Inspects the quality of work being performed by subcontractors to ensure Tuff Shed finished product quality expectations are met or surpassed


SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

  • Experience working in a fast-paced, high volume production environment, preferred
  • Proven experience in successful business-to-consumer sales in large ticket products
  • Proven leadership and relationship building skills, including experience managing employees and resolving employee relations issues
  • DOT, OSHA, and employment law knowledge highly preferred
  • Ability to effectively communicate at all levels, including customers, business partners, suppliers, co-workers, managers, and the general public
  • Ability to solve complex business problems using sound logic and good judgment
  • Ability to read, write and understand instructions given orally, in writing and in diagram form.
  • Ability to prepare written correspondence and reports which create a professional image for Tuff Shed
  • Ability to effectively communicate at all levels, including customers, business partners, suppliers, co-workers, managers and the general public
  • Ability to use mathematical, accounting and financial tools as they apply to Tuff Shed business


WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

Tuff Shed offers a great Benefits package for our full-time employees! - It pays to be a Tuff Shed team member:

OUR COMPETITIVE BENEFITS AND REWARDS
  • Competitive compensation and bonus programs (based on position)
  • Medical Benefits including Virtual Visits- The care you need-when, where and how you need it!
  • Dental & Vision Benefits
  • Flexible Savings Account (FSA)
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - You're more than an employee - Get rewarded for long and loyal service with ownership interest in the Company
  • Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays.
  • 401(k) plan
  • On-Demand Access to Your Pay! - Why wait until pay day?
  • Comprehensive training and mentorship to grow your skills and ensure your success

NEXT STEPS

1. Learn more about us! Check out the Tuff Shed Website at www.TUFFSHED.com.

2. Interested? We encourage you to submit your resume for consideration

3. As part of the application process, please take a short survey, called Predictive Index. Click on the following link to complete this five minute survey: https://assess.predictiveindex.com/Xbxkm

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