Operations Manager
Position Summary
Crescent Operation Managers are responsible to manage and operate a high performing reliable operation committed to meeting all our customer’s needs, our company’s needs and our people’s needs. The business will operate as outlined in the Crescent Way- 3 P’s:
Purpose
Process
People
While building on our culture of:
Doing it Right
Doing it Safe
Doing it Well
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Safety
Read and understand the Crescent Safety Playbook – Doing it Safe
Ensure a Work Environment which is safe and maintained where our people can safely grow and develop
Engage everyone in the operation to participate in Safety Observations to continually seek out and remove all forms of risk
People
Select the best people to be part of Crescent
Train to ensure each person is competent
Assess to ensure the fair and accurate evaluation of each person’s performance and potential
Recognize to ensure each person feels appreciated for the value they provide
Regularly review the Voice of Our People to gain an understanding of their issues and concerns in keeping Crescent’s work environment as a source of competitive advantage
Productivity
Manage all inbound and outbound shipments/stock transfers, including support system activity
Manage pick process for production and ensure all intercompany transfers and staging occurs timely and accurately for production use
Assess / verify the ongoing need for resources
Validate the use and continuous improvement of all production and operational processes
Quality
Determine and adhere to all quality standards
Ensure our customer’s need for quality is understood and build into each process
Control the accuracy of the WMS to ensure correct quantity, SKU, lot code and location of product and materials
Ensure cycle counts, damage processing, are completed and documented as required
Data Integrity - Ensure the complete integrity and timeliness of all data in our operating systems. (Pack Manager / Kronos / Quick Base)
Customer Value
Understand the required standards for each customer and their needs
Report well documented and accurate metrics – UPPH
Manage and motivate all FLO’s to maintain a safe, well organized, accurate receiving, warehouse, staging, and shipping environment
Financial
Align and optimize the allocation of People to meet established operating targets
Ensure equipment is fully PM’d and maintained, stay abreast of innovative equipment ideas to continually improve the level of output
Cultural Competencies
Do It Right
Doing what is right for our Customers, doing what is right for our Company and doing what is right for our People. Continually improving the quality of our product and services. Monitoring and measuring every key ingredient which could negatively impact our quality. Doing it Right ensures we will always be a Premier Service Provider.
Identifier and champion of change opportunities, adept at countering resistance to change and an advocate for continuous improvement
Provide direction and rally the team impetus, forge teams
Provides constructive performance feedback
Willingness to make personnel changes
Develops readiness for delegation to others and then does delegate to others
Willing to take calculated risks
Do It Safe
Providing a safe environment and supporting our people to reach their highest potential. A safe environment where all forms of risk are assessed and controlled. A safe environment open to new ideas, where our people’s opinions and overall well-being count. A diverse environment where everyone fits and can be successful.
Self-assured
Able communicator—good clarity, balanced talker and listener
Patient
Effectively assertive and able to handle conflict and confrontation situations
Solution vs. blame oriented
Mixture of firmness and flexibility
Has energy and enthusiasm
Holds self and others accountable
Do It Well
Optimizing all our resources to efficiently and effectively perform all tasks well. Our overall productivity as a company is a reflection of the thousands of activities performed well each and every day by everyone. At Crescent, our ability to Do it Well is a real source of pride valued by our customers.
Systematic trainer, willing and able to develop people
Good work ethic, task focused and willing to extend extra effort
Able to follow structure where it exists and create structure where it does not
Resilient—able to deal with the unexpected, not easily flustered
Has sense of urgency
Follows up to ensure quality task completion
Work Environment / Physical Demands
Fast paced environment, requiring Production Managers to adapt to continuous changes in schedules, volumes, staffing and shift requirements
Ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arm’s length, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, and crouch
Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
Management Reasoning and Organizational Skills
High average to above average general intelligence, good common sense and an ability to learn and apply lessons from direct experience
Practical problem solver
Ability to anticipate and look ahead
Mental agility and the capacity to handle an up-tempo work pace
Idea generator
Has viable administrative, organizational and time management skills
Can shift focus as needed
Thorough, accurate, detail-oriented
Effective time manager
Exhibits big picture thinking and a combination of short term and long term thinking
Systems Usage
Customer Systems
Kronos
PackManager
Performance Metrics and Trends
Safety
People
Productivity
Quality
Customer Value
Financial
Qualifications
Education & Experience:
5 – 10 Years of practical operations experience, leading teams to safety deliver customer services in an efficient and effective manner and meeting every quality standard for each unique customer
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience leading hourly production associates or projects strongly desired
Warehouse management
Regulatory cGMP experience
Lean manufacturing and continual process improvement experience
We will absolutely know the Operations Manager is successful if they can:
Run a safe and Productive operation
Deliver a Quality product to our customer
Develop a self-sufficient team
Operate a predictable profitable business
By completing this application, you are acknowledging the following:
I am at least 18 years of age of older
I can perform the essential functions of this position, with or without accommodation
I am a US Citizen or otherwise authorized to work in the US on an unrestricted basis
Pay Range
$95,000—$110,000 USD