Operations Manager - Application Center North America

Atlas Copco; Auburn Hills (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlas Copco is seeking an Operations Manager for the Application Center North America, based in Southeast Michigan with hybrid on-site work at Auburn Hills. You will lead a ~100-person organization within ACTA US/Canada to deliver customer-focused assembly solutions and drive profitable growth.

The role requires strong financial acumen, strategic execution, and cross-functional leadership across engineering, purchasing, production, and quality.

Qualifications

• Four-year university degree in engineering, business administration, or related fields.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into action plans and measurable results.
• Experience in the motor vehicle or related industries with customer applications and manufacturing processes.
• Experience leading a project/operational organization and driving P&L responsibility is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee P&L and balance sheet for the entity and manage ~100 staff across multiple functions.
• Lead solution development, proposal, project management, engineering, purchasing, production, quality, and finance.
• Develop and execute strategies to standardize offerings while enabling selective customization.
• Drive operational efficiency, optimize lead times, and reduce costs through people, processes, and automation.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration with local/global teams and build win/win partnerships.
• Develop people leadership and grow high-quality output and employee engagement.

Skills

P&L management

Team leadership

Strategic planning

Operational improvements

Travel readiness

Education

4-year degree in engineering or business

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Operations Manager - Application Center North America

Hybrid Full-time

Your role

Bring your curiosity to work as our next OperationsManager-Atlas Copco North America. You will be part of our Atlas Copco Tools & Assembly (ACTA)-US/Canada team reporting to the General Manager - ACTA US/Canada. In this role, your mission is to achieve sustainable profitable growth by leading our application center to create and deliver assembly solutions that offer great customer value.

Your day-to-day

• Be responsible for and manage the P&L and balance sheet for the entity.
• Lead a team of ~100 people, consisting of solution development, proposal, project management, engineering, purchasing, production, quality, and finance resources.
• Continuously design and develop our solutions offering and project execution strategy such that they are a strategic advantage for us in the market.
• Ensure our project teams are strategic resources who assertively lead all stakeholders to achieve right first time quality on-time and at budget on projects.
• Maximize standardization, while allowing us to customize when right to do.
• Drive operational efficiency, to include leveraging people, process, and internal automation/AI, leading to optimize lead-times and cost.
• Fully leverage purchasing and operational synergies with other related entities locally and globally.
• Establish a relationship with all ACTA US/Canada leaders based on mutual trust/respect and win/win partnership, such that you all genuinely do what is right to contribute to each other's success.
• Ensure people leadership and development is a strength amongst all managers and that it directly results in high-quality output and employee satisfaction in win/win spirit.

Your skills and experience

• Four-year university degree in engineering, business administration, or related fields.
• Proven ability to achieve results from business/action plans derived from a solid strategic platform.
• Working experience in the motor vehicle and/or general industry segments, specifically on customer applications and manufacturing processes.
• Working experience leading, managing, and motivating a project/operational organization.
• Involvement in the design, manufacturing, and project management of customized assembly solutions.Working experience in creating automationsolutions for assembly/tightening applications a strong plus, but not a must.
• Prior P&L responsibility preferred, but not a must if you have strong financial aptitude to assume that responsibility.
• Ability to travel, to include international on occasion.

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role.

Your job location

• This role requires you to live in Southeast MI and work primarily on-site at our Auburn Hills, MI office, but you will be free to work remote to some extent.
• Situational domestic and international travel is required, the extent to which will be clarified with potential candidates.

Why it is great to work with us

Your career grows through your skills, your curiosity, and the people you work with. You join a global network where we learn from each other and share knowledge openly. We focus on long‑term development and encourage you to explore new ideas that help us move forward. Innovation is part of how we think and act – we test, improve, and use what we learn to create solutions that matter. You can make a meaningful impact by contributing with your insights and taking ownership of your work, supported by flexible ways of working and leaders who empower you.

Uniting curious minds

Behind every innovative solution, there are people working together to transform the future. With careers sparked by initiative and lifelong learning, we are uniting curious minds, and you could be one of them.

Information at a Glance

Atlas Copco delivers innovative products and solutions that help businesses grow and drive progress. Our portfolio spans compressed air and gas systems and treatment, vacuum solutions, industrial power tools, assembly systems, and power and flow solutions. We bring a commitment to long‑term success built on expertise, reliable service, and uptime. When you level up to the Atlas Copco experience you enter a partnership based on quality, sustainability, and ease of collaboration. The technology we bring, and the decades of experience support the future-proofing of your business. Atlas Copco is a brand within Atlas Copco Group.

Posting End Date: 1/1/27