Operations Manager

Veolia Group is a global leader in environmental services, operating across all five continents with nearly 218,000 employees. Specializing in water, energy, and waste management. Veolia Group designs and implements innovative solutions for decarbonization, depollution, and resource regeneration, supporting communities and industries in their ecological transformation. Within this framework, Veolia's Water Technology Business brings together a dedicated team of experienced professionals committed to tackling the world's most complex challenges related to water scarcity, quality, productivity, and energy. Together, we pursue a shared mission to create a more sustainable future.

As an Operations Manager, you will be accountable for supervising the activities of the elements, filters, and E-SEP manufacturing groups. In this role, you will ensure that production is maintained in accordance with time schedules, engineering specifications, quality standards, expense budgets, employee safety and cost goals; as well as assist in maintaining a goal-oriented, safe, and quality-conscious working environment. He or she will promote employee acceptance of changes and good safety attitudes and awareness.

Key Characteristics

• This position entails professionalism and independent judgment, and the overall ability to work with employees in all areas of the organization including business teams
• Proven interpersonal and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Knowledge of manufacturing excellence principles.

Essential Responsibilities

• Meet manufacturing operations financial targets, key performance indicators (KPIs) and benchmarks including productivity, operating expenses, revenue, margins, inventory, and growth.
• Ensure production goals are achieved and assure production activities are in compliance with company manufacturing and safety guidelines.
• Champion health and safety, environment, good housekeeping and 5S programs.
• Provide leadership to accomplish continuous improvement in quality, cycle time and total cost by advocating and driving the use of process excellence methodologies (six sigma, lean, etc.) within operations.
• Continuously promote and improve tier processes, standard work, visual controls, and coaching.
• Drive consistency and accountability regarding all policies, procedures, and expectations throughout the department.
• Develop and motivate a high performing team of both direct and indirect reports driving to achieve a common set of goals to provide high quality products to our customers.
• Work directly with support teams to recruit, hire, train staff, evaluate and respond to employee performance.
• Works directly with S&OP, Product Management, and Planning to assess the internal and external factors of finished goods and raw material inventory to meet the business needs in order to keep inventory at a reasonable and prescribed level.
• Work with cross functional teams to support the department needs and improvement initiatives (Quality, EHS, Maintenance, Manufacturing Engineering, Finance, etc.)
• Oversee the department's Safety Program, conducting periodic department safety and training programs and assures that subordinates are properly trained in and utilize appropriate safety gear and protection devices.
• Work closely with site leadership to drive site wide excellence through a collective team approach focused on operational excellence and equal and fair management for all employees.
• Interact closely with other functional areas (Product Management and R&D) to support new product and process development, design for manufacturing, and design transfer activities.
• Plan and manage budget; make budget recommendations for capital spend and labor.
• Support the development opportunities of the production supervisors.

Qualification/Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical, Industrial, Logistics Engineering from an accredited college or university or aligned degree.
• Minimum of 8 years of professional workexperience in production/manufacturing or engineering management
• Demonstrated leadership of capital / continuous improvement projects focused on meeting corporate and departmental goals
• Strong problem solving / troubleshooting experience
• Demonstrated ability to interact with team to effectively promote career path
• Ability to promote a Safety Culture that drives continuous EHS improvements
• Effective at developing and managing a project plan to achieve desired results
• Proven ability to achieve required objectives through the leadership of others
• Detail-oriented, highly organized, self-directed, and capable of interacting and communicating with all levels within the organization
• Ability to multitask and lead / prioritize multiple projects
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written

DesiredQualification/Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional workexperience in production/manufacturing or engineering management.
• Master's degree in engineering
• SAP experience
• Lean Six Sigma or Black Belt experience
• Start up of new manufacturing processe
• Computer system data terminal
• Production environment utilizing Lean Manufacturing Principles
• Maximum of 10% Travel.

Compensation - The salary range is tied to the market for similarly benchmarked roles. The range is not an absolute, but a guide, and offers will be based on the individual candidate's knowledge, skills, experience, and market conditions, as well as internal peer equity. Depending upon all the preceding considerations for the final selected individual candidate, the offer may be lower or higher than the stated range: $125,000-$140,000 USD annually.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.