Operations Manager

Since its founding more than 100 years ago, ITW has become one of the world's leading diversified manufacturers of specialized industrial equipment, consumables, and related service businesses. We place a high premium on the development of innovative solutions-most of which are developed in tandem with our customers. And we continue to ensure that our customers receive timely, cost-effective service for the innovative products we provide.

ITW's differentiated business model is composed of a set of unique core capabilities: our proprietary 80/20 business process, customer-back innovation, and our well-known decentralized entrepreneurial culture. These capabilities are unmistakably ITW-and key to our longevity and strong performance. Learn more about careers at ITW here! Working at ITW

ITW Specialty Films, a global division of ITW within the Specialty Segment, manufactures and markets specialized coated films for the Secure ID, Medical Specialty Bag, and Financial Card markets. The division leverages unique core competencies and technologies in films, foils, laminates, and holography to address customer needs. The division operates in 5 manufacturing facilities (US, UK, and Germany), and offers a fun, fast-paced work environment with a dynamic, collaborative, growth-oriented team.

The Operations Manager for our Cranbury, NJ plant is a key member of our management team who is responsible for all safe manufacturing activities, continuous improvement, and strategy for the facility. The role directly manages the cell leadership, facility manager, customer service, and project design manager. The Operations Manager will lead the manufacturing teams to ensure timely delivery of products meeting the customer's requirements, in quantities that meet sales demand and ensure lowest cost, profitability and growth consistent with ITW objectives. They will both define and deliver plans to improve all aspects of plant performance in line with the ITW Business Model and Financial expectations, in addition to providing strong leadership to the business in-line with ITW's culture and core values. This is a fantastic opportunity for professional and personal development to continue to grow in your career.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Safe manufacturing of quality products utilizing the ITW Business Model

• Health and Safety

• Execute the Safety Management System and drive a proactive safety culture to achieve / sustain zero incidents

• Lead by example and inspire the team in establishing a safety-first culture.

• Ensure that those persons under their control are competent and have sufficient information instruction, training and resources

• Create a culture of reporting accidents, near misses, investigating incidents, identifying hazards and implementing control measures to prevent occurrences.

• Gain an expertise on the ITW Business Model and drive business results through utilization of the tools through empowerment of others.

• Enables growth through market leading customer facing metrics

• Leads from a local Divisional perspective and influences peers around the 80/20 business model

• Drive continuous improvement through utilization of the ITW Business Model

• Plans and executes against short / long term priorities concurrently

• Optimizes plant performance to support the business' core customer-centric value propositions of quality and lead time

• Ensure inventory of stock is maintained in accordance with ITW policies, stock accuracy, MOH and grading concerns.

• Is highly knowledgeable about the manufacturing process, local, state, regional and national regulatory climate (EHS) and division operational metrics

• Assures organic growth is supported via owning local capacity planning/utilization for the "80" based on the ITW Business Model

• Proactively supporting customer back innovation programs & NPI

• Oversees resource allocation for local sourcing & supply chain, maintenance, shipping & receiving etc. and strives to lessen complexity

• Conducts external scan to identify new technology, trends and obsolescence threats and develops strategies to advance competitiveness

• Designs the supply chain to support strategic customer-facing metrics

• Consistently Delivers on commitments

• Actively monitors plant performance, maintaining business metrics to drive focus and for improvement

• Tracks differentiated customer focused metrics and delivers World Class - industry leading results

• Instill a culture of continuous improvement using all available resources with attention to employee involvement

• Successfully identify and develop talent for leadership pipeline