Manufacturing Operations Manager

Operations Manager

Geiger furnishes the modern office with beautiful solutions for private offices, conference rooms, collaborative spaces, and more. Geiger designs play an important role in creating environments where people want to be—spaces that stimulate creative and analytical thinking, strengthen organizational culture, and communicate trust to clients and visitors. Our purpose is design for the good of humankind. It's the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Geiger means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Geiger to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

Responsible for leading, managing, and setting strategy for multiple Operations Work Team Leaders and their teams to achieve operational objectives (in such areas as safety, quality, reliability, cost, continuous improvement and employee morale), which align with and promote the achievement of Operations' and the corporation's business strategy. Results are achieved through coaching, leading, and developing Work Team Leaders and their teams. Additional results are achieved through effective planning, organizing, implementation and execution.

Essential Functions

100% Value: Responsible for championing the continuous improvement processes of operations by eliminating the seven forms of waste and creating processes that add 100% value to the customer.

Continuous Improvement: Responsible for championing change by using kaizen as a tool to improve the organization's capability by utilizing people's skill to solve problems proactively and constantly move towards the ideal situation or 'true north'.

Development: Responsible for employee selection and training. Also responsible to help employees to develop new skills that will allow them to increase their contribution to the business and improve the processes of the operation.

People Are the Most Important Resource Professional Challenge/Participation: Responsible for motivating and involving production teams and work team leaders in improving processes through creativity, problem solving and learning.

Pull System: Responsible to create an operation that produces product only to customer demand (takt time) using one-piece-flow.

Quality: Responsibilities include identifying and solving broad problems that impact quality. Ensure performance and accountability to zero defects.

Recognition/Feedback: Responsible to show appreciation of those individuals and teams that demonstrate outstanding performance.

Reliability: Ensure 100% on-time delivery of quality products to the customer.

Safety: Ensure a safe working environment for all employees and visitors.

Shop Floor Focus: Responsible for ensuring that work team leaders spend 80% of their time directly on the shop floor.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in manufacturing/operations management or equivalent professional experience required.
• Minimum of six years successful supervisory experience required (including leading teams, salaried level employees, multiple departments) in a technical or complex operations environment.
• Demonstrated coaching and change management skills.
• Previous experience in implementing and coaching lean manufacturing principles and tools in a multi-shift/team environment.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to express ideas effectively (verbally and nonverbal)
• Well developed interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrates professionalism
• Adept at resolving conflict in a team environment
• Demonstrated ability to identify and understand issues and make appropriate decisions
• Proficient in ISO quality systems fundamentals and Lean Manufacturing principles
• Must be PC and systems literate (Excel, Word, Lotus Notes)
• Critical competencies for this position include: integrity and trust, customer orientation, job knowledge, decisiveness, relationship building, effective communication, systemic thinking, future focused, managing and developing talent, flexibility, innovation and business knowledge.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively use office automation/communication software and tools currently used in the office environment.
• Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodations.

Who We Hire? Simply put, we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Geiger is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We're committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.

MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at View email address on click.appcast.io.