Operations Manager

Position Summary

Reporting to the Plant Manager, the Operations Manager is responsible for managing the production process, ensuring the correct utilization of material, human resources & machines, complying with safety, product quality and meeting customer requirements, and participating in project development. Focus on achieving organizational goals and objectives (safety, quality, delivery, costs & inventory), legal requirements and environmental management system.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manages an area or multiple teams within a plant or corporate function
• Adapts departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges
• Decisions are guided by policies, resources and business plan; receives moderate guidance from direct manager
• Integrates industry best practices in own area to the achievement of objectives
• Identifies and resolves moderately complex business problems
• Decision making involves compiling and organizing information and selecting best option from a range of alternatives, and put forward to Senior Management's approval, wherever necessary.
• Impacts the level of service and the team’s ability to meet quality, volume and timeliness of objectives
• Guided by departmental policies, resource requirements, budgets and business plan
• Implements, Interprets and executes policies; makes process modifications
• Guides, influences and persuades others internally and/or externally
• Manage the production process, ensure the correct performance of human, material and machine resources considering as a priority safety to accomplish hour by hour production goals.
• Ensure product quality in compliance with customer specifications and requirements.
• Ensure compliance with the legal, corporate, national and international system requirements applicable to the organization .

Keys to Success

• Leadership
• Result Driven
• Decision Making
• Sense of Urgency
• Keeps self-control in hard situations.
• Strong Communication skills
• Problem Solving and decision making.
• Costumer focus (internal and external)
• Negotiation skills
• Creativity, proactivity, and teamwork.
• Problem Solving process.
• Exceptional attention to   internal and external customer requests
• Negotiation skills

Supervisory Responsibilities

• 3+ direct reports
• Manages a generally homogeneous team; adapts plans and sets priorities to meet service and/or operational challenges
• Has performance management and people development responsibility for managers or associates
• Provides subject matter guidance to associates, colleagues and/or customers

• In Charge of

   

  •      Production Supervisor

  •      Quality Manager

  •      Maintenance Manager

  •      CI Manager

  •      Production scheduler

Requirements and Preferred Skills

• Bachelor´s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering or other Engineering.   Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in a similar position, preferably in the Rubber, Plastics, Metalworking or Automotive industry
• MSOffice: Excel, Word, Oracle.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification.
• ISO9001, ISO 14001 & ISO 45001.