Regional Operations Manager

Summary:

The Regional Operations Manager will direct all distribution functions including order fulfillment, receiving, inventory control including cycle counting, delivery, management and development of KPI’s as well as facility management and maintenance. The Regional Operations Manager will ensure the department meets operation’s plan, sustains and expands a continuous improvement culture and environment and achieves and maintains best in class service levels

Essential Functions:

• Ensures all departments are staffed appropriately.
• Ensures department supervisors are managing all deliverables effectively.
• Collaborate with Human Resources to meet performance objectives.
• Oversee process, review and lead continuous improvement initiatives
• Implement approved process improvements.
• Promote and Champion best in class operational and service standards.
• Manage and develop KPI’s. Set goals, monitor/track and document progress.
• Develop and mentor staff, embracing cross training in all departments
• Develop medium and long-term operational plans to support service and operational excellence objectives.
• Set and manage budgets, manage expenses to budget identify cost efficiency opportunities and capture those costs efficiencies
• Make capital equipment purchase/replacement recommendations based on ROI’s and operational needs.
• Ensure all facility and equipment preventive maintenance programs are in place and completed

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum 10 years industrial experience including seven years managerial experience is required.
• Equivalent education or experience may be substituted for any of the above.

Position Requirements:

• Embrace GCE core values; Pride, Accountability, Integrity and Respect and apply to each business interaction; internal and external.
• Leadership skills to provide overall direction for operations area.
• Knowledge of process capability study techniques, process qualification, documentation systems, validation, statistical process control, and design of experiments.
• Financial knowledge and ability to perform and understand analysis of cost computations, cost benefit and buy analysis, justification of capital expenditures, and cost reductions in manufacturing operations.
• Verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ability to negotiate with and influence team members and peers; ability to participate as a team member on project teams.
• Ability to successfully manage a multitude of high priority tasks simultaneously and complete on time
• Thorough knowledge of project management techniques.
• Knowledge of and ability to implement and maintain total quality management philosophy and techniques.
• Planning skills to develop and meet long-range operation plans.
• Human resource management skills to ensure effective recruitment, selection, compensation, appraisal, training and development, coaching, and feedback of staff.
• Ability to set strategic objectives and accomplish work through collaboration.
• Adaptability / flexibility / willing to change & adjust with business conditions.
• Recruit, retain and provide ongoing professional development.
• Coachable & actively participates in coaching process.
• Provide on-going training and coaching of direct reports and ensure that training and coaching is provided to all staff members.
• Team player, Multi-tasker, self-starter, always looking to improve process and work environment
• Works with a sense of urgency and commitment to excellence.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)