Operations Manager

Shape the Future with Us. At Lubrizol, we’re transforming the Medical Device Industry through science, sustainability, and a culture of inclusion. As part of our global team, you’ll be empowered to make a real impact—on your career, your community, and the world around you.

Job Type: Full-Time, On-Site

Salary Range: $124,000 - $154,000 plus a 15% bonus

How You’ll Make an Impact

The Operations Manager is a key leadership role responsible for managing an extruded thermoplastic medical device components and finished device assembly contract manufacturing operation. This position will supervise a manufacturing and warehouse organization of 130+ employees, including departmental supervisors, leads, extrusion technicians, operators/assemblers, material handlers, and receiving/shipping personnel. This position is responsible for monitoring the daily production and achieving production output, schedule attainment, quality, and productivity targets.

They are responsible for ensuring that all operations are done in adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP’s), Good Documentation Practices (GDPs) and other internal QMS requirements, while ensuring that all work performed meets Lubrizol safety policies and expectations. Actively identifies operational issues and constraints that prevent Operations department from meeting their goals and develops effective solutions to address those. In this role, you will:

• Lead the plant’s manufacturing organization to ensure that product is built in conformance to specifications and quality requirements and is delivered in full to customer ordered quantities and committed delivery dates.
• Continually assess and manage production capacity to ensure that manufacturing demand can be met both in the short-term to meet weekly production schedules and in the long-term to meet annual demand forecasts and annual operating plan.
• Develop and manage annual headcount budget plan and operational expense budgets.
• Collaborate with Supply Chain to analyze and finalize weekly production schedules to ensure they are attainable based on capacity and resource constraints.
• Monitor the execution of job orders against the production schedule for timely delivery and report risks and issues to cross-functional partners and Management as required.
• Investigate any and all production control problems, analyze root causes, and derive solutions.
• Ensure that line and departmental goals are clearly set and communicated to all personnel and that all production escalations are completed in accordance with policy.
• Manage production personnel performance against clearly defined objectives and expectations based on plant’s KPIs and targets and through effective and timely communication.
• Develop and implement continuous improvement initiatives to improve efficiency of production set-ups and execution in order to reduce overall manufacturing costs and improve delivery performance.
• Manage and minimize work order variances to ensure standard cost targets are met for material usage, labor times, yields, and overtime premium pay. Ensures that any erroneous data entries leading to variance are corrected and minimized.
• Work with cross-functional departments in identifying and resolving production problems that may arise.
• Determine equipment, material and manpower requirements for each job order to execute an organized schedule attainment strategy.
• Investigates internal product and process non-conformances and customer complaints through reporting, participating in Material Review Board (MRB) meetings and supporting team activities that are focused on recommendations of permanent manufacturing improvements to correct and prevent recurrences.
• Ensure that regular cycle counts are conducted in cooperation with Supply Chain per company policy to minimize inventory discrepancies and negative impact to production execution.
• Manages site’s MRO supplies kanban system to ensure that required production supplies are always in stock to prevent negative impact to production execution.
• Oversee finished goods inventory levels to effectively use working capital and minimize inventory write-offs.
• Plan, monitor, and report real time…