Operations Manager
On-siteClearfield, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Lead the Clearfield manufacturing operation by driving production output, managing resources, and controlling costs while ensuring customer commitments and business objectives are met. Establish operational priorities, production schedules, and staffing plans to improve quality, delivery performance, and throughput. Champion a strong safety culture, ensure regulatory compliance, and lead plant financial performance through budget management and KPI tracking. Partner with engineering, quality, supply chain, and finance teams to execute product design through customer delivery, overseeing inventory, logistics, and continuous improvement initiatives. Manage a high-performing leadership team to foster accountability and operational excellence across fabrication, assembly, warehousing, and maintenance functions.
Required Qualifications
- Strong manufacturing leadership experience with broad responsibility for plant operations, production, maintenance, quality, safety, delivery, and cost
- Strong financial management experience, business acumen, and ability to manage budgets, forecasts, cost rolls, operational KPIs, margin performance, and operating results
- Strong understanding of manufacturing principles, plant operations, production scheduling, MRP, inventory management, lean manufacturing, and operational excellence
- Experience leading cross-functional teams across operations, engineering, quality, supply chain, maintenance, and finance
- Strong knowledge of safety, quality, regulatory, industry, and customer requirements in an industrial manufacturing environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to engage employees, leaders, customers, suppliers, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Strong decision-making, execution, change leadership, problem-solving, and continuous improvement capabilities
- Knowledge of product lines, manufacturing processes, customer requirements, and operational priorities within the production facility
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing, fabrication, engineered equipment, or heavy industrial operations
- Proven success leading a manufacturing facility or major plant operation with accountability for safety, quality, delivery, cost, and financial performance
- Demonstrated experience managing budgets, forecasts, cost performance, cost rolls, operational KPIs, and margin improvement
Desired Qualifications
- Experience working with fabricated, packaged, engineered-to-order, or configure-to-order equipment
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Manufacturing, Business, or a related discipline
- Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt, or equivalent operational excellence training
- Experience in oil and gas production, midstream, downstream equipment, or heavy industrial manufacturing
- Strong cost accounting knowledge, including labor standards, material costing, overhead allocation, cost rolls, and manufacturing financials
- Experience leading supplier performance, procurement coordination, inventory management, logistics, and customer delivery improvement initiatives
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