Manufacturing Operations Manager

Lead Manufacturing Performance While Driving Operational Excellence

Join a dynamic leadership team where you'll play a critical role in both the day-to-day execution of manufacturing operations and the long-term success of the business. This position is responsible for leading day to day production activities, developing high-performing teams, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and delivering operational results that support company growth.
As the Manufacturing Operations Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring manufacturing activities are executed safely, efficiently, and on schedule while also driving strategic improvements in productivity, quality, cost, and overall operational performance. This role requires a hands-on leader who is comfortable spending time on the manufacturing floor, engaging with employees, solving problems in real time, and partnering across departments to improve business outcomes.
If you're passionate about manufacturing leadership, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and developing people, this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact.

What You'll Do
Lead Manufacturing Operations

- Provide day-to-day leadership for manufacturing operations, ensuring production schedules, quality standards, and customer      commitments are consistently achieved.

- Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor, partnering with supervisors and production teams to remove obstacles and improve performance.

- Coordinate labor, equipment, materials, and resources to maximize throughput and efficiency.

- Monitor manufacturing performance and proactively address issues impacting safety, quality, delivery, or productivity.

- Drive accountability across production teams while fostering a culture of engagement, ownership, and teamwork.
Drive Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement

- Champion Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and Continuous Improvement initiatives that improve productivity, reduce waste, enhance quality, and lower operating costs.

- Analyze operational and manufacturing metrics to identify opportunities for improvement and implement sustainable      solutions.

- Lead efforts to optimize workflows, production processes, labor utilization, and equipment effectiveness.

- Establish, monitor, and improve key performance indicators related to safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost.

- Support strategic initiatives that strengthen overall operational performance and business results.
Build & Develop High-Performing Teams

- Lead, coach, and develop supervisors and manufacturing personnel to achieve operational goals.

- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, safety, and continuous improvement.

- Support employee development through training, mentoring, performance management, and succession planning.

- Recognize and motivate employees to achieve performance objectives and deliver exceptional results.
Ensure Quality & Safety Excellence

- Promote and reinforce a safety-first culture throughout the operation.

- Partner with Quality and Engineering teams to maintain manufacturing standards and resolve quality concerns.

- Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

- Lead investigations and corrective actions related to safety, quality, and production issues.
Collaborate & Execute

- Partner with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, and other departments to achieve production and business      objectives.

- Support capacity planning, workforce planning, and resource allocation efforts.

- Balance immediate production needs with longer-term operational improvement initiatives.

- Contribute to the achievement of company goals through effective execution and cross-functional leadership.
What You Bring

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, or related field preferred.

- 5+ years of progressive leadership experience within a manufacturing environment.

- Proven success leading manufacturing teams while driving operational performance and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Strong understanding of production processes, workforce planning, capacity management, and equipment utilization.

- Experience managing supervisors and leading teams in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and manufacturing documentation.

- Demonstrated success improving safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost performance.

- Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, or Continuous Improvement experience strongly preferred.

- Excellent leadership, communication, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

- Ability to build credibility on the manufacturing floor while effectively leading strategic initiatives.
Why This Role is Exciting

- Lead both the daily execution and long-term success of manufacturing operations.

- Make a measurable impact on production performance, operational efficiency, quality, and profitability.

- Drive meaningful continuous improvement initiatives that shape the future of the operation.

- Build, develop, and mentor high-performing teams.

- Partner with leadership to influence business performance and operational strategy.

- Join a culture focused on accountability, growth, innovation, and operational excellence.

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Company Background:
For over 50 years, ABEC has been a leading supplier to the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry. ABEC’s unique value is based on combining long experience with the ability to engineer, design, manufacture, commission, qualify, and service the entire bioprocess to reduce overall cost, shorten time to market, and maximize productivity. ABEC’s products include process and equipment engineering/consulting services, comprehensive site services, and stainless steel and single use bioprocess equipment, including bioreactors and fermenters, filtration and chromatography systems, prep and hold systems, and cleaning/sterilization systems.

Benefits include:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance (Day 1)

- 3 weeks Paid vacation

- Industry leading 401K plan (40% match!)

- 10 Paid Holidays

- Company paid life insurance

- College tuition benefit program

- Employee Referral Program