Operations Manager

Position Summary

The Operations Manager oversees daily plant operations at Steel Plate, ensuring safe, efficient production that meets customer requirements and delivery commitments. This position leads supervisors and production teams, coordinates resources across departments, and drives accountability, quality, productivity, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Safety: Lead plant safety efforts, enforce policies and PPE, conduct observations, and follow through on incidents and corrective actions.

Production / Operations: Direct daily plant activities, execute production priorities, maximize throughput and machine utilization, remove bottlenecks, and coordinate labor and equipment.

Leadership: Lead and develop shift supervisors and production teams; establish expectations, coach performance, support staffing, and maintain accountability.

Quality: Ensure customer specifications and procedures are followed; reduce scrap and rework, address nonconformances, and support corrective actions.

Communication: Coordinate closely with Planning, Shipping, Maintenance, CAD, Quality, Sales, and leadership; communicate priorities, risks, and progress.

Planning & Scheduling: Support schedule execution, review capacity and labor requirements, resolve conflicts, and respond to urgent customer needs.

Financial: Improve tons per labor hour, control overtime and waste, reduce downtime, and support departmental cost and budget objectives.

Continuous Improvement: Identify process inefficiencies, standardize work, improve workflow, and drive measurable gains in productivity and reliability.

Cleanliness & Organization: Maintain high housekeeping and workplace organization standards; hold supervisors and employees accountable for safe, orderly work areas.

Qualifications

Manufacturing operations leadership experience preferred; strong people-management, communication, and problem-solving skills; ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. Steel processing or heavy manufacturing experience is a plus.

Primary Objective

Lead daily plant execution safely and efficiently while improving throughput, quality, delivery performance, employee accountability, and operational profitability.

Steel Plate provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience:

• Engineering: 4 years (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Streetsboro, Ohio 44241

Work Location: In person

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person