Powder Coating Operations Manager

Role Overview

Compensation and Employment

• Annual salary is $100,000 to $125,000.
• This is a full-time, exempt position.

Operations Leadership

• Direct daily sandblasting, liquid paint, powder coating, surface preparation, inspection, and final release operations.
• Set production priorities, staffing plans, schedules, workflow, and capacity decisions to meet customer requirements.
• Resolve bottlenecks, equipment issues, material shortages, and capacity constraints and coordinate preventive maintenance.
• Own budgets, margins, labor efficiency, overtime, material consumption, throughput, capacity utilization, and rework.
• Support quoting, job costing, pricing, capacity planning, material planning, and technical feasibility decisions.
• Develop recommendations for capital investments and improve margins, productivity, waste, downtime, rework, and operating costs.

People and Customers

• Set expectations for safety, quality, productivity, attendance, teamwork, and professional conduct.
• Coach, train, develop, evaluate, and hold employees accountable for performance.
• Support recruiting, interviewing, hiring, onboarding, cross-training, and workforce planning.
• Serve as an operational contact for industrial coating customers and address technical, scheduling, quality, delivery, and service concerns.
• Support business expansion with existing customers and development of new customers and markets.

Quality and Reporting

• Monitor first-pass quality, rework, scrap, customer complaints, safety, and other operating performance measures.
• Identify root causes of recurring production and quality problems and implement corrective actions.
• Maintain a safe, organized industrial operation and follow PPE, safety, environmental, hazardous material, and company requirements.
• Present leadership with operating reviews covering revenue, margins, budget, backlog, forecast, labor, productivity, delivery, quality, safety, staffing, risks, and opportunities.

Hiring Expectations

• Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in manufacturing, coatings, industrial finishing, fabrication, or a related industrial environment.
• Three or more years of supervisory or management experience.
• Working knowledge of powder coating, industrial painting, sandblasting, surface preparation, or comparable finishing processes.
• Experience managing manufacturing employees and industrial customers.
• Experience with budgets, job costing, margins, labor efficiency, inventory, and departmental financial performance.
• Strong planning, scheduling, organizational, problem-solving, communication, customer service, employee development, and workplace safety capabilities.
• Proficiency with spreadsheets, email, word processing, and common production and business systems.
• Familiarity with structural steel products and fabrication environments is a plus.
• A bachelor's degree in Business, Operations Management, Manufacturing, Engineering, or a related field is desirable; related management and industry experience may substitute.

Benefits

• Benefits include a 401(k) with company match, retirement plan, health, dental, and vision insurance.
• The package also includes a flexible spending account, life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and an employee assistance program.