Plant Operations Manager - Military Veterans

Our client is a national specialty packaging manufacturer who is growing through the acquisition of a company in the Chicago, IL area. They are seeking a stellar military veteran leader with related experience to become the Operations Manager of their newly acquired plant. This leader must come in and take responsibility for the operations of the business with the potential to double the efficiency and output of the plant.

The candidate would be responsible for day-to-day operations of a 30 employee, equipment intensive business, that has +$8M ($15M potential) revenue; and work with the corporate development team of the parent company to chart out strategic growth opportunities for the business.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking to step into a P&L leadership role, has broad engineering and management experience across different functional areas, and wants to get hands on in operating a business.

Job description:

As the Operations Manager you are regarded as a leader and responsible for the effective implementation and integration, and maintenance of all initiatives that include safety, quality, delivery, cost, and morale through effective leadership. This includes leading personnel whether direct or indirect reports to improve all initiatives while coordinating with all personnel as necessary, to achieve desired outcomes. You are required to use written and oral skills to develop, coordinate, implement, and enforce all policies and procedures that impact key metrics to improve the overall performance of all aspects of the plant.

You must be able to work with others, in sometimes difficult situations, to achieve results that improve the plant's position to better serve the business. You must coach, motivate, and ensure that the employees in your area of responsibility are performing at an optimal level to achieve the expected results as given by the leadership team. This includes all listed responsibilities below and any additional tasks assigned to you by the leadership team.

Responsibilities of this position:

- Implements policies and procedures that will improve daily operations and reports necessary KPIs

- Improve overall safety culture and initiate CI initiatives to improve employee engagement

- Establishes quantitative and qualitative metrics, guidelines, and standards by which the company's efficiency and effectiveness can be evaluated; identifies opportunities for improvement

- Plans, directs, controls, implements, evaluates, monitors, and forecasts budgets and the cost of sales in each division to achieve financial objectives

- Coordinate and implement all quality initiatives to improve overall quality key performance indicators within the plant

- Ability to lead personnel and hold others accountable while maintaining professionalism

- Provide excellent customer services skills, including consistently displaying awareness and sensitivity to the needs of internal and/or external clients

- Proactively ensuring that these needs are met or exceeded

- Partners with customer service in a matrix organization to improve customer satisfaction

- Leads coordination and integration of efforts among operations, engineering, technology, and customer service divisions to produce smoother workflow and more cost-effective business processes

- Ensures each location is reaching goals set by departmental and company leadership

- Projects a positive image of the organization to the employees, customers, industry, and community

Base salary, $130 - $160K base, 15% annual bonus potential, a 401K, relocation and full benefits packages, as well as an opportunity for profit-sharing.

Incredible opportunity to be groomed to take over as the Operations Manager for a small packaging manufacturing company under the umbrella of a national parent company, with amazing earnings and growth potential.

Job 57846