Senior Operations Manager - Lean, Quality & Safety

Applied Materials, Inc.; Gloucester (MA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Materials, Inc. in Gloucester, MA is seeking a production leadership role responsible for supervising and coaching a team of production employees.

You will guide workload, schedule priorities, and ensure safe, efficient manufacturing operations to meet quality and delivery targets. Responsibilities include leading cross-functional meetings, tracking key performance metrics, driving Lean and Safety initiatives, and implementing improvements to processes and capacity.

Responsibilities

• Supervise, lead, motivate, direct, develop and train a team of production employees.
• Assigns work and sets priorities for employees.
• Provides technical expertise and managerial leadership.
• Effectively communicates daily crossovers and build/test issues across all levels of Manufacturing.
• Prioritizes production schedules based on available manpower, equipment efficiency, capacity and materials requirements.
• Leads operational meetings; establish consistency in processes, and ensure alignment of tactical and/or strategic plans.
• Develops and tracks key organization performance metrics to meet or improve cycle time performance.
• Schedules and conducts milestone meetings.
• Ensures timely response to operations issues impacting customer satisfaction; acts as an interface in the establishment of and ensuring conformance to customer/vendor requirements; prepares detailed analysis of cost of quality opportunity and initiates corrective action.
• Actively strives to prevent employee accidents and injuries.
• Responsible for ensuring and documenting that all department employees (including temporaries) receive and follow appropriate department training including Environmental, Health and Safety training.
• Implements, emphasizes importance of, and monitors compliance to appropriate safety policies and procedures.
• Develops personnel to include training and career development; manages the performance management process to include the development of team and individual goals, implementing employee development plans, and coaching.
• Manages the employee selection, hiring, reward and discipline processes.
• Analyzes and plans for maximum production capacity optimization; implements and monitors manufacturing or dept. processes that collect, analyze and report key measurement data and real time status.
• Identifies process and quality changes designed to improve manufacturing or department capabilities.
• Drives Lean, Safety and Quality.
• Takes corrective action.

Job description

Applied Materials, Inc. in Gloucester, MA is seeking a production leadership role responsible for supervising and coaching a team of production employees.

You will guide workload, schedule priorities, and ensure safe, efficient manufacturing operations to meet quality and delivery targets. Responsibilities include leading cross-functional meetings, tracking key performance metrics, driving Lean and Safety initiatives, and implementing improvements to processes and capacity.