Foundry Night Shift Operations Manager

Aalberts Integrated Piping Systems; Pageland (SC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Aalberts IPSA is seeking a Night Shift Operations Manager to lead on-site night operations, ensuring safety, quality, and productivity across molding and maintenance functions. You will drive continuous improvement initiatives while coordinating with day-shift teams to maintain operations and meet production goals.

The role emphasizes accountability, coaching, and leadership of frontline staff to achieve uptime, quality standards, and safety compliance on a nightly basis.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Equivalent foundry leadership experience may be considered.
• 7+ years of manufacturing experience, preferably in a foundry environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety observations, incident investigations, and corrective action implementation.
• Direct and coordinate all molding department activities during night shift.
• Ensure production schedules are executed safely, efficiently, and on time.
• Provide leadership and direction to maintenance personnel during night shift operations.
• Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Leadership

Safety

Quality

Production

Kaizen

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business, or related field

Job description

This is an excellent opportunity for a driven Operations Manager to unlock your ambition and work the future at Aalberts.

As a full-time Operations Manager for Aalberts IPSA, you will play a key role on site during night shift operations via accountability for maintaining a safe, productive and disciplined work environment while supporting continuous improvement initiatives across the facility.

The Night Shift Operations Manager is responsible for the overall leadership, safety, quality, productivity, maintenance coordination, and operational performance of all night shift foundry activities. This position provides direct oversight of molding operations and maintenance personnel while ensuring production schedules, quality standards, equipment reliability, and workforce development objectives are achieved.

the Aalberts way

Aalberts is built on entrepreneurship. We believe the more space people are given, the greater their chance of finding brilliant solutions for our customers. That is why we encourage everyone to take ownership, think independently yet work as one team. You are in charge today of what happens tomorrow. For yourself, for the company, and for our planet.

• Promote and enforce all company safety policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead safety observations, incident investigations, and corrective action implementation.
• Ensure proper use of PPE and adherence to safe work practices.
• Drive a culture of safety accountability throughout the shift.
• Conduct regular safety audits and workplace inspections.
• Direct and coordinate all molding department activities during assigned shift.
• Ensure production schedules are executed safely, efficiently, and on time.
• Monitor daily production performance and adjust resources to maximize throughput.
• Remove operational barriers impacting safety, quality, delivery, or productivity.
• Coordinate manpower allocation to support production priorities.
• Manage shift startup, shift turnover, and end-of-shift communications.
• Ensure standard operating procedures are followed consistently.
• Provide leadership and direction to maintenance personnel during night shift operations.
• Prioritize maintenance activities to support production requirements.
• Coordinate emergency equipment repairs and downtime recovery efforts.
• Ensure preventative maintenance activities are completed as scheduled.
• Partner with day shift maintenance leadership to ensure continuity of repair and reliability initiatives.
• Monitor equipment performance and identify opportunities to improve uptime.
• Ensure compliance with all quality standards, specifications, and work instructions.
• Respond to quality concerns and initiate containment actions when necessary.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action implementation.
• Promote quality-at-the-source practices throughout production and maintenance teams.
• Work closely with Quality and Engineering personnel to resolve process issues.
• Directly supervise frontline supervisors, leads, operators, and maintenance personnel as assigned.
• Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Conduct coaching, performance feedback, and employee development activities.
• Support hiring, onboarding, training, and retention efforts.
• Address employee relations concerns in partnership with Human Resources.
• Promote employee engagement and positive morale across the shift.
• Support Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Utilize operational metrics to identify improvement opportunities.
• Drive improvements in productivity, utilization, efficiency, quality, and equipment reliability.
• Participate in problem-solving and corrective action activities.
• Lead shift-level improvement projects and kaizen events as assigned.
• Act as the senior management representative on site during the night shift.
• Communicate production, maintenance, safety, and quality issues to Plant Management.
• Provide accurate reporting of operational performance and key events.
• Coordinate activities with Maintenance, Quality, Engineering, Logistics, and Human Resources functions.
• Complete additional duties as assigned by the manager.

key performance indicators (KPIs)

• Safety Incident Rate
• Near Miss and Safety Observation Participation
• Earned Hours Performance
• Schedule Compliance
• Mold Production Throughput
• Equipment Uptime
• Maintenance Response Time
• Scrap and Rework Rates
• Quality Performance Metrics
• Employee Retention and Engagement
• Housekeeping and 5S Compliance

requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business, or related field preferred.
• Equivalent foundry leadership experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• 7+ years of manufacturing experience, preferably in a foundry environment.