Director of Operations

Rapid Engineering LLC; Grand Rapids (MI); On-site; USD 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Operations Director to lead strategic planning and manage day-to-day manufacturing activities. This role involves maximizing production efficiency, ensuring compliance with quality standards, and fostering a safe and productive work environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in operations management, a proven track record of enhancing organizational effectiveness, and strong leadership skills. Join a forward-thinking company committed to innovation and excellence in the HVAC industry, where your contributions will significantly impact operational success and employee well-being.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience and/or bachelor’s degree.
• Must possess excellent computer skills including Microsoft applications.
• Tangible track record of improving organizational effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Maximizing the efficiency of production lines and ensuring effective employment utilization.
• Planning and coordinating manufacturing in compliance with company goals.
• Maintaining employee safety and morale by creating a safe working environment.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Communication

Safety Management

Microsoft Office Suite

Education

Bachelor's Degree

8+ years of experience

Tools

ERP Systems

Job description

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We're on a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive through the transformative power of air. We are a premier HVAC Company offering energy efficient and sustainable air handling products and solutions that help industrial facilities perform better; protect workers, product and inventory; and improve indoor air quality. We offer high quality semi-custom air handling systems in multiple shapes, sizes, and configurations for new construction and renovation. Our four (4) air handling brands (Phoenix Air Systems, Rapid Engineering, Weather-Rite & Bananza) are sold into food processing, manufacturing, warehousing, logistics and vehicle paint booth markets across North America.

The Operations Director is responsible for strategic planning and decision-making at an organizational level while simultaneously managing all tactical day-to-day plant-wide manufacturing and production activities. The role of operations manager is to provide leadership of manufacturing, safety, planning logistics and materials functions and to manage these tasks directly. The operational director’s key challenge is to maintain production within specific guidelines for production efficiency, labor cost, product rework, waste amounts, and control of on-hold product.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maximizing the efficiency of production lines and ensuring the effective employment utilization.
• Planning, directing, and coordinating the manufacturing of products in compliance with company goals and objectives.
• Analyzing delivery and inventory issues and providing solutions.
• Establishing and controlling conditions of production in order to satisfy customer and quality specifications.
• Participating actively in standardization, cost reduction, and improving ERP system protocols.
• Organizing and directing workflow for satisfying production requirement in a cost-efficient manner.
• Investigation and analyzing new coordinates and processes, where feasible.
• Developing and motivating the cost-effective alternatives and improvements to production process.
• Maintaining employee safety and morale by creating safe working and efficient working environment.
• Managing the stock control, distribution, production-scheduling tasks
• Leadership, training and development of operations supervisors, team leads and frontline personnel.
• Maintaining proper employment levels through selecting, interviewing, and training of personnel.
• Performing analysis of manufacturing materials and determining optimum control levels.
• Liaising with sales managers on planning and predicting customer orders to satisfy shipments.
• Other duties as assigned by Manager.

Job Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience and/or bachelor’s degree.
• Industry relevant production experience.
• Tangible track record of improving organizational effectiveness and operations management.
• Knowledge of business and management, HR, and project management principles and practices.
• Must possess excellent computer skills (Microsoft applications (i.e. excel, word, PPT, etc).
• Must have leadership, coaching and mentoring skills.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and possess a “can-do” with quality first attitude and take “ownership” over Logistics initiatives.

Position Key Attributes:

• Ability to personally live safe and hold themselves and other team members accountable by having their back in support of our Safety core value.
• Has integrity, works transparently, and recognized for treating others with respect.
• Takes accountability to create and execute solutions that deliver desired results and can “own it” in a Performance Driven Culture.
• Ability to work collaboratively and lead teams in a Teamwork culture.
• Ability to ignite and lead change as a catalyst for improvement.
• Can thrive in a “legacy now” culture in which we strive to do the right thing for the company today, even if it is the hard thing, and leave behind a stronger company for the next generation of employees.
• Strong leadership skills including ability to think strategically, solve problems and create a motivating team environment.
• A “builder” who is comfortable in a continuous improvement culture.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Production, Management, and Strategy/Planning

• Industries

  Industrial Machinery Manufacturing and Manufacturing

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