OPERATIONS MANAGER presso SSW Advanced Technologies, LLC

SSW Advanced Technologies, LLC is a growing multinational supplier to the global appliance OEMs. With more than 70 years of expertise and innovation, we design and sell components and systems to the residential appliance industry (refrigeration, cooking, laundry), commercial refrigeration, HVAC, retail display and home/office organizational markets. More information is available on our website https://www.sswtechnologies.com/

The Onsite Operations Manager will plan, direct, or coordinate the operations of public or private sector organizations, overseeing multiple departments or locations. Usually manage through subordinate supervisors.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Direct and coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with the production, pricing, sales, or distribution of products.
2. Responsible for production performance across all shifts
3. Prepare staff work schedules and assign specific duties.
4. Ensures that shop floor performance meets company expectation with regards to safety, production output levels, scrap levels, expense budgets, quality levels - PPM performance, impacts to gross margin performance and labor budgets
5. Ensures shop floor disciplines / programs are implemented, controlled and maintained to achieve expected operational metric and enhance efficiencies
6. Ensures that facility maintains correct inventory trends to meet customer sales projections and any pre-build quantities.
7. Works closely with Material Management in execution of production schedules and maintains ability to react to changes in weekly production requirements
8. Monitor suppliers to ensure that they efficiently and effectively provide needed goods or services within budgetary limits.
9. Ensures training programs for shop floor personnel are executed to proper level.
10. Makes recommendation to required education / training necessary for operators.
11. Involvement with maintenance projects / priorities to ensure machine set-up and plant maintenance is adequate to performance expectation
12. Responsibility to meet all customer ship schedules on time and with expected quality levels.
13. Responsible for executing all existing shop programs and being innovative toward driving results toward better metric execution - including but not limited to scrap reduction, production efficiencies, safer workplace, and 55.
14. Responsible for 55 and overall cleanliness / organization of work areas within and around the facility.
15. Manage the operation/processes of the facility in order to ensure that production goals are met with the highest quality standards. 
16. Leadership of Fabrication Supervisors to ensure proper production levels with a goal of meeting customer and business needs.
17. Works closely with Material Manager to ensure production of correct part numbers, Maintenance Manager to ensure proper and timely set up of equipment in fabrication areas, Finishing Manager to ensure sufficient inventory of necessary parts for coating schedules and Shipping department to ensure shipments leave the facility properly / timely to meet customer expectation.

Position Supervised or Directed:

Fabrication Supervisors.

Qualifications, Experience requirements:

• Degree/Diploma obtained: Technical degree or certifications relative to production or inventory control.
• At least 5 years of experience in an operational leadership capacity within a manufacturing environment. 

General Requirements:

• Detailed and hands-on oriented.
• English fluency.

Working Conditions:

• Physical ability, which may include standing, reaching, and working in areas with high temperatures.
• Office and manufacturing environment. 
• Frequently indoors. 
• Frequently exposed to loud noises. 

Equipment Use:

• Computer-based job.
• Telephone. 

Commitment to Core Values:

• Honesty
• Integrity
• Caring for People
• Customer Focus
• Teamwork
• Communication
• Improvement