Operations Manager, Manufacturing


City: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Title: Operations Manager, Manufacturing
Category: Management & Professional
EmploymentType: Permanent
Description:
Staffmax is hiring for our client, a leading metal manufacturer here in Winnipeg!

Salary: $87,500 – 100,000

The Operations Manager will oversee the activities of work teams in the fabrication, distribution, and planning departments, ensuring compliance with safety, quality, material requirements, and production schedules. They will manage all plant activities, including facilities management and maintenance, while developing, implementing, monitoring, and maintaining operational strategies that enhance efficiency and speed of supply without compromising safety or quality, fostering a culture of excellence.

Responsibilities:
Operational Excellence:
 
  • Conduct monthly safety audits and meetings to ensure compliance with legislation standards, deploying 5S throughout operations.
  • Create and institutionalize workflow documentation and standard operating procedures (SOPs) in all operational functions.
  • Develop a team member skills matrix and ensure quarterly training plans are in place, resulting in health and safety awareness, continuous improvement knowledge, and overall cross-trained team members.
  • Ensure new team members undergo an effective onboarding process.
  • Implement a visual management system where performance improvements are driven by key performance indicators (KPIs) and problem-solving.
  • Establish inventory management systems to achieve high inventory accuracy and optimize inventory days on hand.
  • Implement a robust scheduling system to provide team members with clarity on daily goals and objectives, ensuring high on-time delivery in the most cost-effective manner.
  • Create and implement a preventative maintenance program, including daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual tasks to mitigate the risk of unplanned equipment downtime.
  • Participate in creating and executing operational-related financial budgets and forecasts.

Leadership:
  • Lead and enforce the business's health and safety program and requirements.
  • Ensure employees adhere to company policies and meet expectations.
  • Optimize resources for maximum efficiency and quality.
  • Monitor and assist in training new personnel, providing performance feedback and coaching as needed.


Production Planning
    • Translate Sales Orders into manufacturable Work Orders that ensures accuracy in quantity and form based on specifications of the order.
    • Review information from Inside Sales/Customer Service, verify its accuracy and transfer the information to the work order once verified.
    • Coordinate production activities with the Shift Leader and other departments as required.
Inventory Control
    • Ensure aster data for all items is accurate
    • Manage and oversee the plant wide planogram on raw material and finished good inventory
    • Oversee min/max levels for all items and purchase raw materials
    • Implement a robust physical inventory and daily cycle count process
    • Create WO and PO’s to ensure all inventory levels and operational supplies are available
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
  • Plant safety audit percentage
  • Scrap percentage
  • On-Time & Complete percentage
  • Dollars invoiced per operational headcount
  • Cycle Count percentage

Does this sound like a fit for you? Apply Today or ask about our $1,000 referral bonus!

At Staffmax, our sole focus is the recruitment and placement of the most talented and qualified candidates. Whether candidates are looking for a permanent career change or the flexibility and experience that can be gained from contract assignments, we can help. Our goal is to get to know our candidates personal and change lives. Staffmax is proud to recruit a workforce that reflects the diversity that Canada has to offer. We encourage candidates who are Indigenous, visible minorities, people with disabilities, and any others who reflect our diverse workforce to self-declare and apply.

We thank every one of you who applies, however only those we choose to interview will be contacted.
 
Company:
Staffmax Staffing & Recruiting