Regional Operations Manager (Remote)

Position: Regional Operations Manager

Reports to: General Manager

Department: North American Operations

Position Purpose: Ensuring smooth operations and profitability of locations within the Kentucky and Tennessee region. To oversee operations of each area, managing staff and financial performance

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance and promotes a culture based on safety, operational excellence, innovative thinking, and high-quality customer service.
• Manage budget to align with goals of the business.
• Foster an environment of continual learning.
• Drive safety prevention as a personal responsibility.
• Develop and retain a “Best in Class” team through selection, assessment, development, and recognition.
• Ensure employee engagement and implement succession planning at the sites.
• Responsible for reliable delivery of services at all sites according to the Service Line Delivery Model with focus on Measure, Evaluate and Continuous Improvement.
• Ensure all sites promote and implement innovative ideas, products, systems, and methods.
• Interact and meet with peers to share information relevant to North America Operation’s Business.
• Take a lead role in customer relationship management at both the plant and corporate level.
• Drive successful implementation of strategic initiatives.
• Maintain high ethical standards and an appropriate level of confidentiality.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the General Manager.

Competencies:

• Customer Service Orientation- Satisfying customers.
• Adaptability- Willingness to deal with unexpected challenges or circumstances.
• Problem Solving- Defines complex problems and brings about viable solutions.
• Leadership — Strives to delegate, balance workloads and achieve consensus; has a flexible yet effective management style.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• This position requires that the person be a highly organized, self-motivated individual who can work independently.
• Must have strong leadership skills, with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks and priorities and easily adapt to changing situations.
• Must be computer literate, particularly in shop floor control, production planning, and inventory control applications.
• Must be knowledgeable in and comfortable with management of financial processes related to the operational unit of responsibility. These processes include budgeting, forecasting, and month to month P&L management.

Position Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree is preferred.
• Automotive (or equivalent) s experience preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive management experience preferred.
• Lean manufacturing/Lean Operations experience.
• Must be able to interact with customers and employees at all levels.
• Extensive travel. Travel estimated at 75 to 80%.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the key actions of the job:

• The employee is required to talk and/or hear in an industrial setting (noise level is moderate). The employee is frequently required to stand and walk on concrete surface from 4-8 hours. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception and focus adjustment.