Operations Manager

Job Title: Operations Manager

Industry: Heavy Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

Location: Lehigh County, PA

Summary:

The Chatham Group: Advanced Materials and Technologies Recruiting Firm is seeking highly qualified candidates for the role of Operations Manager with a client in the Industrial Machinery Manufacturing industry. The Operations Manager will possess a strong background in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering with demonstrable experience in managing complex teams and projects within the world of manufactured heavy industrial components such as compressor systems, furnaces, etc. You will be responsible for the overall site management of all North American contract client locations (15 currently and expanding) through establishing manufacturing parameters, efficiency metrics, total product maintenance protocols, and other quality assurance and customer technical services initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor operations performance metrics for efficiency, environmental regulations, quality assurance, total productive maintenance
• Work with the Maintenance Manager to implement robust maintenance programs such as TPM, Preventative and predictive maintenance, and other asset reliability and performance initiatives
• Help implement ISO 9000/9001 certification
• Perform customer technical services duties such as building customer relationships, work with vendors, and more to improve customer satisfaction
• Assist quality teams with CAPA Investigations, Root Cause Analyses, Fishbone, 5 Whys, etc
• Lead site process improvement projects

Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Mechanical or Chemical Engineering
• 7-10 years of experience in heavy industrial machinery manufacturing or plant equipment manufacturing
• 2-5 years of experience with managing teams of operators and operations supervisors
• Demonstrable experience with training operators on new processes for the operation of new equipment
• Lean manufacturing experience.. Six Sigma Green Belt is a plus
• Strong aptitude with electromechanical systems, PLC/DCS, SCADA, HMI, GUI programming
• Direct experience in large scale air compressor manufacturing

Compensation will be commensurate with experience level and relocation will be provided for qualified candidates. Travel for this role can be considered 25% as there will be requirements to service equipment at clients operational facilities throughout the United States, though mostly in the East and Southeast.