Operations Manager, Iron Mountain, MI

Hubbell Incorporated; Michigan; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Hubbell Incorporated is seeking an Operations Manager to lead manufacturing operations with a focus on safety, quality, productivity, and profitability. The role requires building high-performing teams and delivering best-in-class customer satisfaction, initially based in Iron Mountain, MI for about one year before relocating to Oklahoma City, OK.

You will drive continuous improvement, manage capital and expenses, and partner with cross-functional leaders to achieve strategic objectives across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Management, or related field.
• 10+ years of manufacturing management experience (required).
• 10+ years of Lean manufacturing and/or Six Sigma quality processes (required).
• Proficiency in Excel and computer skills (required).
• Strong knowledge of Financial Management.
• Experience in a growth-oriented sales and marketing organization.
• Bi-lingual (Spanish & English) preferred.
• SAP experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide daily leadership to team members and drive safety culture improvements to ensure workforce safety.
• Lead operational improvements to reduce cost, improve quality, and drive profitability and customer satisfaction.
• Guide adoption of best practices across the value chain and coordinate with leaders across sites.
• Support process standardization across facilities and strategic planning execution.
• Oversee capital equipment purchases and resource planning aligned with sales projections.
• Manage union relations, including discipline and negotiations.

Skills

Leadership

Lean manufacturing

Financial management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Microsoft Excel

Bi-lingual (Spanish & English)

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Management, or related field

Tools

Excel

SAP

MS Office

Job description

Job Overview

The Operations Manager is a key leader responsible for driving operational excellence, continuous improvement, and business growth. This role leads manufacturing operations with a focus on safety, quality, productivity, and profitability while developing high-performing teams and delivering best-in-class customer satisfaction. The successful candidate will initially be based in Iron Mountain, MI for approximately one year before relocating to Oklahoma City, OK.

Job Overview

The Operations Manager is a key leader responsible for driving operational excellence, continuous improvement, and business growth. This role leads manufacturing operations with a focus on safety, quality, productivity, and profitability while developing high-performing teams and delivering best-in-class customer satisfaction. The successful candidate will initially be based in Iron Mountain, MI for approximately one year before relocating to Oklahoma City, OK.

Every Day At Hubbell Is Different And You’ll Contribute In Many Ways. On Any Given Day, You’ll Make a Difference By

A Day In The Life

• Provide daily leadership to team members and continuously drive safety culture improvement to ensure safety and wellbeing of the workforce
• Provide daily leadership to team members and continuously drive operational improvement to reduce cost, improve quality, and ultimately drive profitability and customer satisfaction
• Lead adoption and use of best practices across all elements of the value chain and work with other leaders in ISS across multiple site locations
• Support and implement process standardization across multiple facilities
• Support critical decision making processes related to manufacturing and maintenance operations, to ensure the most effective return on assets
• Support the development and execution of strategic planning and business objectives
• Leverage a KPI and performance metrics-driven environment, where timely, relevant, and accurate information drives timely decision making
• Ensure production/staffing needs and capacity and resource planning are in line with sale projections and growth targets
• Create, review, and recommend Capital Equipment Purchases
• Deliver financial commitments to business operating plans, financial cycles, and medium- to long-term financial frameworks, including:
• Actively lead the management of all controllable expenses
• Lead Operations’ participation in the collaborative company forecast process
• Lead proactive communication on any variances in operational activities to the company forecast
• Responsible for handling all Union related issues as they arise including, but not limited to: discipline, labor concerns, negotiations, and act as Management Representative in any related meetings

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Management, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience manufacturing management experience (required)
• 10+ years of experience with Lean manufacturing and/or Six Sigma quality processes (required)
• Proficiency in Excel along with all other computer skills (required)
• Strong knowledge of Financial Management
• Experience in a growth-oriented sales and marketing organization
• Bi-lingual (Spanish & English) preferred
• SAP experience preferred
• Proactive, responsive, and engaged. Driven and takes personal accountability. High energy.
• Operates with a sense of urgency and expects his/her team to do the same, leading by example
• Entrepreneurial spirit and enjoys a fast-changing environment
• Direct communication and working style. Advocates and selects the best idea, not necessarily their own.
• Collaborative, flexible and open-minded. Able to thrive in a team-based environment. Exhibits a high degree of autonomy with a proven ability to pull disparate pieces together across the organization and ‘get things done.’
• Establishes a high degree of personal accountability among his/her team and enables the team to hold each other accountable, challenging the status quo, and fostering an environment of new ideas and change
• A successful record of progressive career trajectory with expanding roles and responsibilities
• Diverse functional experience is highly desired, including supply chain and logistics, manufacturing, design/engineering
• Demonstrated ability to recruit, lead, manage, and mentor a high-performing, data-driven team.
• Excellent coach and team leader who can champion change.
• Ability to define and execute an operational strategy requiring close cross-functional coordination
• Deep experience with Lean manufacturing principles
• Strong analytical and financial skills
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills
• Experienced problem-solver
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite

Hubbell Incorporated

Hubbell creates critical infrastructure solutions that power our customers, communities, people and the planet. Our company is strategically aligned around enabling grid modernization and electrification. As more products plug in to an aging grid, Hubbell solutions enable the transition to a more reliable, resilient and efficient energy infrastructure. Founded in 1888 our innovation has made us a leading global manufacturer of high quality electrical and utility solutions enabling customers to operate critical infrastructure reliably and efficiently.

The company operates in two segments. Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications and Hubbell Electrical Solutions (HES) are essential to managing power across a wide range of industries and applications. Our vertical market solutions can be applied to markets including Data Centers, Renewables, Commercial Buildings, Industrial, Telecom and Transportation. Supporting both of our business segments is our corporate and Hubbell Unified Business Solutions teams that provide consistent process, tools technologies across our businesses.

We are committed to operating sustainably and ethically while promoting an inclusive and supportive culture for our people to grow and develop in their careers. Our employees proudly work and serve our communities from our headquarters in Shelton, CT, across the United States and around the globe.

Hubbell Utility Solutions

Hubbell Utility Solutions (HUS) enable the grid to conduct, communicate and control energy across utility applications. HUS provides the critical components that allow the grid to reliably transmit and distribute energy, as well as the communications and controls technologies to make the grid smarter and more flexible.

Hubbell Incorporated, its subsidiaries and affiliates, is an EO Employer AA: M/F/Veteran/Disability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other protected class.

The above summary of position responsibilities and requirements is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an exhaustive list of duties, skills, efforts, physical requirements, or working conditions associated with the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal position elements essential for making decisions related to position performance, employee development, and compensation.