Operations Department Manager at Koch in United States

Job description

• Guardian Glass is seeking an Operations Department Manager to join our team in Geneva, NY.
• In this role, you will be responsible for driving safety and operational excellence in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. To be successful, you must be comfortable with complex operations while working across all levels of the organization to drive vision, strategy, and execution. You will work with peer managers, outside resources, process engineers, technicians, and supervisors to promote our One Team mentality while advancing our principle-based culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead a 24/7/365 large scale manufacturing process including people, equipment and administration.
• Own and drive safety excellence and environmental compliance of people and processes.
• Foster strong customer partnerships to ensure quality product is delivered on time and in full.
• Work with and through team members to achieve reliable, stable, and predictable plant operations.
• Identify, prioritize, and execute on the most profitable opportunities that drive plant efficiency, increase throughput, and add capabilities.
• Recruit, challenge and develop the future leaders of the plant and company.

Requirements

• Management experience in a manufacturing plant environment.
• Demonstrated ability aligning a team to safety, quality, culture, and productivity visions.
• Proven track-record of mentoring and developing future leaders.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering or other STEM related field
• Glass or Ceramic Process and Production Knowledge: furnace/combustion, glass forming and annealing theory.
• Thin Film Optical Process and Production Knowledge: Sputtering, vacuum processes, and equipment
• Experience using data analysis and process control systems

Skills

Required

• Mentoring and developing future leaders

Benefits

• Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
• Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
• For this role we anticipate paying $105,000-$125,000 per year.
• At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.