Operations Manager

McCormick & Company; Geneva (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Career growth opportunities

Flexibility and Support for Diverse It

Life Stages and Choices

Job summary

McCormick & Company in Geneva, IL is hiring an Operations Manager to oversee daily production operations at the Flavor Solutions manufacturing plant. You will drive TPM, continuous improvement, and leadership across the Plant Leadership Team to align resources with strategic goals.

The role requires developing a culture of continuous improvement, managing budgets, and ensuring safety, quality, and cost controls while coordinating with functional leaders to meet customer demand.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or relevant technical discipline.
• 7–10 years functional/leadership experience.
• Strong leadership with ability to manage multiple projects and people.
• Excellent communication and diplomacy skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify, prioritize, plan, and direct execution of operational issues for assigned areas with Team Managers.
• Design strategies, procedures, and people utilization to improve safety, reliability, and efficiency.
• Develop and maintain cross-functional relationships to ensure on-time, in-spec production for customer demand.
• Establish and maintain continuous improvement processes with CI resources to maximize safety, productivity, reliability and quality.
• Oversee development and performance planning for current employees and staffing strategies for robust succession.
• Create operating and capital budgets and participate in business planning and cost containment.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Continuous improvement

Team management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or relevant technical discipline

Job description

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.

What We Bring To The Table

We are hiring an Operations Manager immediately at our McCormick Flavor Solutions manufacturing plant in Geneva, IL.

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth opportunities
• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices

Position Overview

Under general direction of the Plant Manager, the Operations Manager oversees the daily production operations of the plant. The Operations Manager utilizes TPM and continuous improvement methodologies to position the plant's human and capital resources for long-term success by ensuring safe, effective, and reliable production processes. Provides strategic leadership and direction for multiple operations within the Plant. As a Plant Leadership Team member, works with other functional leaders to develop organizational planning, strategic direction setting and goal setting for the Plant. Is responsible to develop a culture of continuous improvement through process improvement and enhancing employee skills and capabilities. As a member of the Plant Leadership Team, requires comprehensive understanding of the concepts and principles within their own functional area and also requires basic knowledge of these elements in other relevant functional areas in order to participate in the resolution of issues that have an impact beyond the area or impact multiple areas.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, prioritize, plan, and direct the execution of operationally related issues for assigned areas through Team Managers. Designs strategies, procedures, and people utilization for improving safety, reliability, and efficiency while maintaining product quality and operating expenses for assigned areas.
• Creating an empowered environment to ensure that the Operations organization and its people understand the goals and objective (OGSM's) of the business and that they have the resources and support to accomplish them. Provide an environment which ensures and provides for open and healthy communication.
• Develop and maintain strong cross functional relationships to ensure that new and existing products are manufactured on time and in specifications to meet customer demand. Ensures strong relationships are developed and maintained with key customers and venders as they relate to the operations function to include fit for use materials and products.
• With the support of Continuous Improvement (CI) resources, establish and maintain comprehensive continuous improvement processes that maximize safety, productivity, reliability, and quality.
• Oversee development and performance planning for current employees, as well as implementing staffing strategies to ensure a robust and diverse succession plan. Ensure operations is appropriately staffed. Champions a thorough and consistent performance management approach for Operations employees.
• Creates operating budgets and capital budgets with other leadership team members. Manage department expense budgets with appropriate accounting information and support. Participates in the business planning and budgeting process. Develops short and long-term cost containment/reduction strategies.

Required Qualifications

• Level of Education and Discipline: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or relevant technical discipline required
• Experience: Minimum of 7-10 years functional/leadership
• Strong leadership experience with demonstrated success in managing multiple projects and people. The job requires a detailed understanding of how all areas of the plant interact to contribute to the business. Requires a general understanding of the industry. Requires basic commercial awareness as it relates to competition but only requires limited understanding of the latest developments in the industry.
• Interpersonal Skills: Leadership: This job has full management responsibility for the operations team, including management of people, defining roles and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required to guide and influence others. Leadership of exempt staff to achieve common objectives. May interface with external parties as representative of the plant/facility. Strong cross-functional strategic leadership, communication, and teamwork skills. Ability to translate strategy into actionable information in small or large groups in a clear, concise, and professional manner. Ability to influence upwards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bi-lingual in English and Spanish

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.