Operations Manager

.Why join us?Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind.
It's the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do.
Being a part of MillerKnoll 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 MillerKnoll to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.GENERAL PURPOSEResponsible for leading, managing, and setting strategy for multiple Operations Supervisors 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 Supervisors and their teams.
Additional results are achieved through effective planning, organizing, implementation, and execution.Essential Functions100% 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'.
Responsible for ensuring that teams engage in kaizen activities every day to proactively go after problems with a shop floor focus.
Develop and coach supervisors to be capable of managing and leading in a problem-solving management structure utilizing Facilitators and disciplined continuous improvement thinking.Development: Responsible for employee selection and training.
Also responsible for helping employees 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.Perform other activities as assigned.Professional Challenge/Participation: Responsible for motivating and involving production teams and work team leaders in improving processes through creativity, problem-solving, and learning.
This is accomplished through setting expectations, teaching, encouraging, coaching, and holding employees accountable for utilizing standardized work.
Solicit employees' ideas for improvement and create a work environment where employees are encouraged to take risks and share their ideas for improvement.
Coach supervisors on effectively using leadership skills to drive improvements.Pull System: Responsible for creating an operation that produces products only to customer demand (takt time) using one-piece flow.
Provide leadership through coaching, providing strategies, and removing barriers for successful implementation