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Operations Manager
| Company | Land O’Lakes |
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| Location | Sioux Falls, SD, USA |
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| Salary | $79200 – $118800 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
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Requirements
- High School Diploma and 4+ years leadership experience in a manufacturing environment or Bachelors and 2+ years leadership experience in a manufacturing environment
- Strong presentation, communication, training, and interpersonal skills
- Proven track record of understanding the drivers of product and labor cost variances
- Strong leadership experience
- Strategically plan, organize, and manage a department with regards to daily hours, schedules, productivity, quality, and safety
- Strong Microsoft Office suite and written communication skills
- Ability to communicate with a variety of people & personalities
- Must be able to make quick decisions on the spot & support those decisions to your peers, employees, and plant leadership
- Ability to consistently meet deadlines, manage multiple projects & multi-task with ease
- Must be detail oriented and have excellent follow through
- Results orientation with track record of successful achievements
- Active listening skills are a must
- Ability to influence a positive employee environment
- Ability to drive safety & safe behaviors while maintaining the goal of preventing all injuries
- Must be able to influence and drive change management
- LEAN / Six Sigma / TMM experience -Participates in coaching and mentoring as well as additional career development activities to enhance the effectiveness and potential of the team
Responsibilities
- Provide mentoring, coaching and train team members to develop effective and efficient teams
- Ensure appropriate, effective communication within teams, across teams and to management as well as support areas
- Develop flexible, multi-skilled team members to enable movement of people as needed to accomplish work
- Collaborate with Plant Steering Team to develop and implement short- and long-term strategies, including project leadership, staffing and employee engagement
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience working as a team leader in a multi-faceted team is highly desirable
- High Speed Manufacturing experience
- Demonstrated experience with Continuous Improvement Processes and/or Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt
- Responsible for department costs to budget through effective manpower planning, and scheduling.
