Operations Support Manager

Company Overview

Colorado Barricade is a leading provider of safety services for the infrastructure industry in the State of Colorado, with the intent to expand throughout the Rocky Mountain west. Colorado Barricade’s core services include traffic control planning and services, pavement marking, permanent sign installation, and sign and safety product sales. Our valued customers include heavy civil, vertical, commercial, and residential construction companies, Departments of Transportation, municipalities, and water and utility infrastructure companies.

Company Benefits

Mission

To be the leading safety company in America

Values:

We Are One

We Take Pride in the Win

We Figure it out for our Customers

We Keep our Ego in Check

Position Overview

The Operations Support Manager will be responsible for overseeing and optimizing the day-to-day operational support functions within the company with a focus on our Sign Shop manufacturing and Vehicle maintenance operations. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, implementing efficient processes, and ensuring seamless operations to drive overall business success.

The Operations Support Manager will oversee a team of individuals responsible for Fleet maintenance, Sign Shop design and manufacturing, general facility upkeep and maintenance, and regular safety audits.

How You Will Make a Difference

Cultivate strong relationships with your team:

• Lead and inspire a dynamic team of professionals that range in various years of tenure with the company.
• Provide results that align with the company’s overall budget and targets for the year.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performance work environment, emphasizing accountability, teamwork, and individual growth.
• Collaborate seamlessly with various departments to deeply understand their operational support needs related to signage, fleet, inventory, and facility maintenance.
• Devise and implement innovative solutions that address cross-functional challenges, fostering efficiency and cohesion across the organization.
• Ensure unwavering compliance with industry regulations and safety standards across all operational areas.
• Analyze performance metrics regularly, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing strategic enhancements.

Sign Shop and General facilities:

• Support our internal design and sign shop manufacturing team by managing production schedule, quality of deliverables, and supply cost management,
• Maintain adequate inventory levels to anticipate upcoming needs based on seasonality and trends
• Manage team’s absorption cost to other lines of business in a manner that reduces the appearance of unnecessary non-production time.
• Keep up with general facility maintenance for all Colorado Barricade locations such as supplier relationships for HVAC, plumbing, grounds maintenance, office supplies, and security.
• And other duties as assigned

World Class Fleet Management:

• Work with your team to oversee the entire lifecycle of the organization's fleet, from procurement to maintenance and eventual disposal.
• Track and report preventative maintenance schedule of all vehicles and maintain a preventative maintenance on-time percentage of 90% or higher.
• Track and manage time associated with internal and outsourced equipment repairs.
• Implement a companywide dash camera program.
• Develop and implement comprehensive strategies to optimize fleet efficiency, reduce operational costs, and ensure strict compliance with safety standards.

What You Bring:

• You have a proven record of taking care of those on your team.
• You are comfortable wearing different hats, and can seemless which in between functions of the role.
• You foster and promote a collaborative and mutually beneficial and supportive relationship between Operations, Business Development, Finance, and other company business units.
• The ability to think strategically, applying business insights to formulate and drive solutions that achieve organizational objectives.
• The ability to make informed business decisions through the use of data and analytics.
• A strong learning agility. You enjoy and excel in environments where you must tackle and solve new and increasingly complex strategic business challenges and issues—incorporating the newest ideas, technologies, and approaches to business.
• You are a systems-thinker who takes a structured approach to problem-solving and is willing to align your efforts behind the biggest opportunities.
• Superior communication skills.
• Ability to work both strategically and tactically in a fast-paced high-energy environment.

How You Know You’ll Love It Here

• You want to be part of a mission and values-driven organization.
• You believe that every problem we face is a leadership problem, and will only be solved through leadership.
• You believe that a leader’s job is to make their team great (and not themselves).
• You have a ‘we over me’ perspective.
• You gravitate toward a ‘mission-first, people always’ mindset.
• You like working with people who have a bias for action.
• You believe that our team is the most important part of our company.
• You don’t like being bored and enjoy an energetic workplace.
• You like to laugh and you try not to take life too seriously.
• You don’t think ego has any place in an organization.
• You enjoy being part of a team who supports one another and holds one another accountable.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field preferred.
• Minimum of 5-7yrs of Operation Support Management experience.
• Knowledge of manufacturing and production environment.
• In depth knowledge of Fleet Management.
• Familiarity with inventory control systems and facility maintenance protocols.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment.
• Advanced Excel skills are highly preferred.
• Construction industry experience is a plus but not required.

Requirements

• Valid Driver’s License and clean MVR **Must maintain a valid driver’s license during entire employment**
• Pass pre-employment, random, post-accident, and reasonable suspicion drug screens.
• Satisfactory results of pre-employment background check

Physical Activities and Requirements, Visual Acuity, and Working Conditions of the Position

This section contains supplemental information to assist Colorado Barricade in our compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Physical Activity of This Position

• Typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations sound.

Physical Requirements of This Position

• Sedentary work. Exerting up to 30 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary; walking and standing are required only occasionally.

Visual Acuity Requirements Including Color, Depth Perception, and Field Vision

• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.

Conditions the worker will be subject to in this position

• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (such as in a typical office or administrative work.)

Other

• This position will require up to 20% travel.

Colorado Barricade Co. is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all future and current employees.

Applicants and current employees will not be discriminated against because of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, disability, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, or any protected category prohibited by local, state, or federal laws.