Site Operations Manager

The Site Operations Manager is responsible for the entire operation of their respective TrueNorth Steel site. This includes establishing a positive environment that drives excellence through establishing teamwork across all departments within their site and TrueNorth Steel.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS 

• Embrace and demonstrate the qualities of the TrueNorth Steel Game Changer definition. 
• Will support and strive for safety in all areas of the site. This includes resolving safety problems that arise and completing the required paperwork to close the actions items. 
• Develop and monitor the annual site budget through actively participating in financial reviews. This includes all site expenses, headcount projections, and capital improvements.   
• Actively drive our game changer culture through the site by exhibiting all our game changer attributes which will build a cohesive, high-performance team. 
• Active participant of product knowledge and process, and standardization across your sites product line(s).   
• Identify, develop, and mentor key site leadership individuals. This includes developing succession plans for functional areas of your site.   
• Participate in building a strong culture to positively impact site yearly retention goals. 
• Apply root cause analysis and actively participate in the closing of site Corrective Actions (CA’s) and Non-Conformances (NC’s) to ensure our internal and external customers receive the highest quality product.  
• Achieve a high level of production schedule attainment to ensure customer commit dates are met.  
• Track site product lines KPI’s weekly, monthly, and quarterly with help from Product Line Manager and establish your plan to meet, improve or attain the goals.   
• Create a level of high personal responsibility and accountability at your site.  
• Participate during all project and/or job completion estimate to actual discussions to improve performance in the future.  
• Work effectively with all departments to include project management, sales, inventory control, finance, and logistics to achieve a team approach to identifying and solving issues.  
• Work closely with the Finance Dept to develop consistent cost-cutting measures that translate to increased profit.   
• Host all site readiness meetings to ensure preparedness for all upcoming work at your site.   
• Develop, with the help of Director of Fab & Mfg., a site capital replacement schedule and give guidance on new equipment required to improve throughput.  
• Direct reporting responsibilities for site personnel include Shop Supervisor(s), Safety Coordinator/Contact, Planner/Scheduler, Maintenance, and other personnel as assigned. Indirect reports include Quality Control Supervisor, Inventory Control Manager, and Human Resource Business Partner, if applicable.      
• Participate actively in the daily, weekly, and monthly reconciliation of data collection for timecards, factory track reports, cycle counts, weekly safety inspections and preventative maintenance records. 
• Support TrueNorth Steel corporate policies and procedures by effectively communicating and enforcing policies and procedures to reduce potential risks to the company.   
• Actively participate with site Quality Control Supervisor to ensure facility’s QMS processes and procedures are implemented and followed by all assigned personnel. 
• Prompt and dependable attendance. 
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND QUALITIES 

• Strong leadership skills - must have experience in managing people in a leadership role. 
• Must have the ability to develop leadership at all levels of areas of responsibility. 
• Must have a strong internal customer service focus which develops a culture of teamwork with sales, production, quality, safety and finance. 
• Ability to effectively develop, communicate and implement process improvements. 
• Must be an outstanding team leader and will be held accountable for the quality of the product. 
• Ability to effectively communicate, coordinate and resolve conflict.  
• Must have general computer experience along with experience using spreadsheet and word processing programs. 
• Ability to motivate others to perform their jobs effectively and to be responsible for making decisions. 
• Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions in their areas of responsibility. 
• Ability to communicate effectively with management using the spoken word. 
• Ability to delegate, when necessary, authority and/or task responsibility to appropriate people. 
• Ability to utilize the available time to organize and complete work within given deadlines.

EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE 

• Bachelor’s Degree and/or equivalent experience in a related field with extensive experience in manufacturing environment required.  
• Minimum 5 years managing entire operations and production facilities.  
• APIC, ERP and/or Lean Manufacturing experience is a plus.