Operations Manager

At GAF, we cover more than just buildings. We cover each other. Under this roof, you will have the tools and resources you need to grow and develop in your career. You will experience our incredible culture and will be empowered to support your teammates, your customers, and especially your community. Under this roof, we define the future while leading the present through our deep well of experience and our responsibility to the future to drive improvements and innovation in our products. We are GAF. And under this roof, we protect what matters most.

Team or Function Overview

The operations manager will oversee an enthusiastic team of professionals ensuring that our products and services meet the demands of our customers. We strive to protect what matter most and that is manufacturing the best products available.

Summary

We are looking for an Operations Manager who will function as a key member of the facility staff leadership team. Coordinate with other staff members to ensure that facility goals are met. Manage the Production and Maintenance departments to ensure that customer quality requirements are consistently met safely and at the lowest possible cost.

Essential Duties

Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage daily production operations through the Production Manager, production supervisors and/or production teams to maximize production efficiencies including volume of product produced, run rates, raw material utilization, yield loss, downtime, and slowdown while producing high quality product in a safe manner. Ensure that standards and expectations are in place, routinely communicated, clearly understood and consistently met.

• Manage daily maintenance operations through the maintenance manager, maintenance supervisors and planner. Establish work practices that optimize machine availability while balancing costs. Direct activities through the maintenance supervisors and planner to achieve maximum machine utilization and reliability. Establish and implement best practices including preventative measures that continuously improve machine performance. Approve all purchases of storeroom parts and maintenance services.

• Meet daily production schedule and requirements, Work jointly with logistics and purchasing to ensure appropriate inventory mix is available, while balancing both production efficiency and raw material demands.

• Develop, implement and track compliance to production and maintenance department expense budgets. Control key cost elements to ensure achievement of budget spending goals. Guide both production and maintenance supervision to achieve a balance between production needs, machine reliability and overall repair cost.

• Ensure that production crews and maintenance techs are well trained, involved and committed to meeting production, quality and safety requirements. Assure that equipment and machinery complies with all outside regulatory agency requirements and that employees are adequately protected against safety hazards and that the plant is operated within environmental permit requirements.

• Provide leadership and direction to the production and maintenance departments. Responsible for maintaining an environment for good employee relations to prevent any union organizing attempts. Work closely with human resources and supervisors to ensure appropriate staffing is maintained. Participate in the hiring process to ensure we staff motivated team members. Ability to effectively communicate the Bonus Plan to all employees to maximize participation and impact on performance.

• Manage production and maintenance department efforts supporting capital projects. Work with engineering managers and project engineers to define production and maintenance needs for capital to reduce outside contractor costs. Manage production team efforts to perform raw material and other process trials in conjunction with the process engineering department.

Physical Demands

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Frequent sitting, walking and standing; occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling and balancing.

• Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone.

• Required to sit, stand, walk and use hands to grasp, handle or feel objects, tools and product samples.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

• Must have the ability to differentiate colors precisely.

• Required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel or crouch.

• Ability to perform detailed testing processes in various process conditions.

• Frequent use of eye, hand and finger coordination enabling the use of manufacturing equipment and machinery.

• Ability to read and concentrate via computer data entry typing and proofreading.

• Ability to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds.

Under This Roof, We Require

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Chemical or Mechanical preferred) or Bachelor’s of Science in another discipline that is coupled with extensive manufacturing experience.

• A minimum of 10 years of demonstrated manufacturing management experience including direct management of both production and maintenance functions.

• Experience in high volume manufacturing operation, preferably continuous web process.

Under This Roof, We Also Value

• Ability to quickly identify safety hazards and make clear recommendations to resolve.

• Ability to perform advanced troubleshooting and solve complicated production challenges.

• Familiar with standard manufacturing concepts, practices and procedures.

• Advanced communication skills and the ability to work well with employees at all levels of the organization, as well as outside contractors and vendors.

• Advanced computer skills, including G Suite, WinSPC, AutoCAD, Braincube as well as the ability to quickly learn and master plant specific programs.

• Strong data analysis skills. Advanced spreadsheet design and data manipulation/analysis a plus.

• Strong problem solving skills and techniques, with an emphasis on the use of techniques such as PPA, MVT/DOE and Kepner-Tregoe.

• Ability to respond to requests in a professional and timely manner.

• Strong planning, prioritization, organizational and reporting skills.

• Independent problem-solving skills.

• Positive attitude, ability to adapt and contribute to a team environment is critical.

How We Protect What Matters Most

• We offer a wide range of health insurance options that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.

• Our Family-Building benefits support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood.

• Our robust 401K plan includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions.

• Other exciting programs and perks are available to help employees achieve work-life balance, including (but not limited to) a wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee’s primary residence.

• Professional growth and development are very important to us! We offer internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program.