Manager, Operations

aticareers; Cudahy (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ATI is seeking a Manager, Operations in Cudahy, WI to lead the Physical Test, Product Certification, and onsite Shipping functions. You will drive safety-focused operations, align testing with production needs, and guide teams through complex workflows in a manufacturing environment.

The role emphasizes people leadership, planning, cross-functional coordination, and continuous improvement to deliver customer-ready output while strengthening safety, quality, and delivery performance.

Qualifications

• High school diploma required.
• 10+ years manufacturing experience.
• Experience leading salary and hourly union staff preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead with safety as the top priority and foster an engaged, accountable workforce.
• Oversee destructive/physical testing, certification, and release activities for forged products.
• Coordinate testing priorities with production and shipping to meet customer commitments.
• Ensure timely product release by monitoring test results and documentation.
• Manage staffing, performance, and development across multiple teams.
• Oversee end-to-end flow of test material from manufacture to shipment.
• Partner with Production and other locations to set testing priorities and resolve constraints.
• Collaborate with Shipping to align testing, certification, and ship-room activities with shipments.
• Monitor performance and remove barriers impacting release, throughput, or quality.
• Plan workforce, equipment, and capital resources for current and future needs.
• Drive continuous improvement across quality, productivity, cost, and lead times.
• Support audits and maintain standards in an accredited environment.
• Lead organizational change with clear priorities and accountable execution.
• Foster cross-functional partnerships to improve execution and customer responsiveness.
• Model ATI values of safety, integrity, respect, teamwork, and accountability.

Skills

Leadership

Operations management

Manufacturing

Safety leadership

Continuous improvement

Education

High school diploma

Job description

ATI is seeking a Manager, Operations to lead a critical part of the product-release process at our Forged Products facility in Cudahy, WI. In this highly visible leadership role, you will oversee Physical Test, Product Certification, and onsite Shipping — three interconnected functions that help ensure our forged products meet requirements and are ready to reach our customers.

Our Cudahy operation includes a NADCAP MTL-certified captive laboratory that performs the destructive and physical testing required to support product release. As Manager, Operations, you will lead the teams responsible for moving forged products through final testing, certification, and release for shipment. You will bring structure to complex workflows, align priorities with production needs and customer commitments, and lead teams through the daily challenges of a dynamic manufacturing environment. This role combines people leadership, production planning, cross-functional coordination, continuous improvement, and hands-on operational problem-solving.

This is an opportunity for an experienced manufacturing leader who enjoys developing people, solving operational challenges, improving processes, and driving measurable results. Your leadership will help ensure the right work is completed at the right time — turning testing and certification into reliable, customer-ready output while strengthening safety, quality, productivity, and delivery performance.

What You'll Do

• Lead with safety as the top priority, creating an environment where employees are engaged, accountable, and empowered to identify and resolve safety concerns.
• Lead the day-to-day operations of destructive and physical testing supporting forged-product release, including specimen preparation, testing, retesting, certification, and release activities.
• Prioritize and coordinate testing activities based on production requirements, customer commitments, and daily shipping priorities, adjusting plans as business needs change.
• Ensure timely and accurate product release by overseeing test results, certifications, and required documentation through the appropriate release process.
• Lead employees across a complex manufacturing and testing environment, with responsibility for staffing, workflow, performance management, communication, engagement, and employee development.
• Manage the end-to-end flow of test material, including material breakdown and specimen manufacturing, testing, retesting, certification, subcontract testing, and shipment.
• Partner closely with Production and other Forged Products locations to establish testing priorities, resolve constraints, and respond to changing production and customer schedules.
• Coordinate closely with the Shipping organization to ensure testing, certification, and ship-room activities remain synchronized with customer commitments and shipment requirements.
• Monitor operational performance and proactively remove barriers that could impact product release, throughput, quality, or customer delivery.
• Plan and coordinate workforce, equipment, and capital resources needed to support current operations and future business requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement across quality, productivity, cost, lead time, equipment reliability, inventory, workflow, and overall operating performance, using data and structured problem-solving to deliver measurable and sustainable results.
• Support customer and third-party audits and ensure the operation maintains the standards, procedures, and discipline expected of an accredited special-process environment.
• Lead organizational change effectively by establishing clear priorities, communicating expectations, engaging employees, and maintaining accountability through periods of growth, transformation, and operational change.
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships with Operations, Production, Quality, Engineering, Shipping, and other internal stakeholders to improve execution and customer responsiveness.
• Promote and model ATI's values and leadership principles, fostering a culture grounded in safety, integrity, respect, teamwork, innovation, and accountability.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Proven to Perform.

From the edges of space to the bottoms of ocean, our materials are proven to perform -- and so is our team. We're hiring high performers as proven as our products. Join us.

Position requires a high school diploma

10+ years of manufacturing experience, with a focus on supply chain, operations or engineering roles.

Managing a team of salary and hourly union staff preferred.

We thrive when the expectations are great, and the barriers are high. We're solving the world's most difficult challenges through materials science.

Our advanced, integrated process technologies and proven performers give us a tremendous competitive advantage. When customers systems need to fly higher, dig deeper, stand stronger, and last longer -- anywhere on, above or below the earth -- ATI is proven to perform.

*It is ATI's policy to not provide immigration sponsorship for any of the company's positions.

ATI and its subsidiary companies will provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected be federal or state law. The company will provide reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.