Senior Supply Chain Operations Manager

THE BUSINESS

Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) invents and commercializes technologies that address some of the world’s most critical challenges around energy, safety, security, air travel, productivity, and global urbanization. We are a leading software-industrial company committed to introducing state of the art technology solutions to improve efficiency, productivity, sustainability, and safety in high growth businesses in broad-based, attractive industrial end markets. Our products and solutions enable a safer, more comfortable, and more productive world, enhancing the quality of life of people around the globe.

Honeywell Energy & Sustainability Solutions (ESS) is a global technology leader that enables the energy evolution and provides innovative sustainable solutions to customers across industries. ESS focuses on reducing emissions and delivering sustainable materials to help businesses achieve their sustainability goals. With a commitment to environmental stewardship and energy efficiency, ESS plays a crucial role in addressing the world's energy challenges and driving the transition to a more sustainable future.

As a guide, international supplier, and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment, digital services, and consulting services to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries, Universal Oil Products (UOP) is dedicated to helping customers generate the most value from every drop of oil, every cubic foot of natural gas, and every ton of coal through innovative solutions and state-of-the-art technologies.

This facility manufactures cryogenic equipment to support the company’s industrial gas and liquified natural gas (LNG) business. In addition to pressure vessels, distillation columns, piping skids and cold boxes it is also the world’s leading manufacturer of (LNG) heat exchangers. Each heat exchanger consists of coil wound tube bundles housed within an aluminum or stainless-steel pressure shell, all of which are assembled and welded by skilled employees at the plant. This facility employs nearly 300 production technicians.

THE POSITION

We are seeking a high energy, self-starter with strong interpersonal skills to fill a Senior Operations Manager position at its LNG manufacturing facility in Palmetto, Florida (Port Manatee/Manatee County).

You are responsible for directing the shop floor activities of our equipment manufacturing team through direct supervision of production managers, production supervisors, and shop floor employees across all three shifts.

You must possess the ability to drive organizational change through leadership and influence. You will identify opportunities for improvement initiatives within the organization and form cross functional teams to develop process improvements in the areas of safety, productivity, and quality. You will steer the cross functional teams to ensure the objectives are met in a timely and cost-effective manner.

You will develop and track key performance indicators for the Organization and drive improvements to those KPI’s. You are responsible for the development of talent within the Organization to ensure a sustainable pool of talent at all levels within the Organization to ensure high performance against our KPI’s.  You will use forward-looking workload models to create specific skill-based manpower plans and coordinate training programs to ensure the correct skillsets are developed in advance of the workload needs.

You will create a culture of accountability and ownership within the Organization and across all shifts. You will coordinate and lead regular reviews of organizational performance to identify areas of underperformance and ensure corrective actions & lessons learned are implemented to achieve better performance in the future.  You will hold others accountable to high expectations for safety, planning, performance, and employee development.

You will actively seek opportunities for improvement within the organization and manage the team to implement changes to ensure that the necessary improvements are identified and implemented.  You will measure and monitor to ensure the changes have achieved the desired outcome and adjust as necessary.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Set high expectations and create a culture of accountability and ownership to ensure Production Managers and Supervisors have, and utilize, proper processes and tools to effectively manage safety, planning, and performance within the Organization.
• Develop and implement work practices to drive accountability for quality & rework.
• Coordinate and lead periodic, recurring performance reviews / lessons learned of work in-progress and ensure corrective & preventive actions are implemented and shared across Team members.
• Plan and direct long term development plans to ensure the Organization has the depth and breadth of skillsets to meet schedule, quality, and productivity goals.
• Hold others accountable for ensuring employees understand daily expectations and are given proper instruction at start of shift
• Analyze future production requirements and issues.  Implement actions to ensure the team is prepared in terms of manpower, equipment, and processes. 
• Ensure that direct reports follow a sustainable process for reviewing and analyzing productivity data across various operations and implement productivity improvement plans. 
• Monitor and control overhead spending to work within approved plant operating budgets. 
• Enforce work rules and practices in a fair manner to staff and hourly workforce across shifts.
• Provide input on methods to improve productivity through equipment acquisition, better methods of assembly, overhead reductions, etc. 
• Ensure processes and procedures are followed by Production Managers, Supervisors, and shop floor technicians.
• Ensure metrics and goals are established to create a “one team” mentality across shifts.