Manufacturing Operations Manager

Manufacturing Operations Manager
Southwestern Ontario (London area) | Permanent | On-site, Day Shift

The Opportunity
Our client is a growing, owner-operated Canadian manufacturer of non-ferrous castings and precision CNC-machined components, supplying industrial customers across North America. Sales are growing fast and the company has just invested in new equipment. They now need a senior operations leader to make sure the plant can deliver.

You’ll report directly to the President and sit on the senior leadership team. You’ll own day-to-day manufacturing performance across casting, finishing, machining, assembly, maintenance and logistics. You’ll also build the systems, habits and people that make good results repeatable.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and develop five direct reports: the casting, CNC machining, afternoon shift, maintenance/facilities and shipping/receiving leaders
• Own the master production schedule and move the plant to stable, capacity-based scheduling
• Run daily floor walks and scheduling touchpoints, and set priorities across labour, equipment, materials, tooling and outside processing
• Improve on-time delivery, schedule attainment, throughput, lead time and backlog
• Find and manage constraints, cut excess WIP and avoidable overtime, and raise labour productivity
• Reduce scrap, rework, downtime and recurring issues with structured problem-solving
• Set maintenance priorities and improve reliability and utilization on new and existing equipment
• Build 1-month and 3-month operating outlooks and the plans to hit them
• Plan staffing and capacity, and support new product, equipment and automation launches
• Work with Sales, Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, Finance and HR
• Hold a high bar on safety, quality and housekeeping

How Success Is Measured
Safety (no lost time), schedule attainment and on-time completion, throughput and backlog, labour productivity, scrap and rework, and equipment reliability. You’ll spend months 1 and 2 learning the operation, start acting in month 3, and move the numbers in months 4 to 6.

What You Bring

• 7+ years of progressive manufacturing experience, including leading managers or supervisors across multiple areas or shifts
• A track record of improvements you personally led, backed by measurable results
• Strong production scheduling, capacity planning and flow management skills (constraints, WIP, throughput, utilization)
• Hands-on experience working with maintenance and reliability teams
• A continuous improvement toolkit (Lean / Six Sigma); a Black Belt is an asset
• ERP/MRP experience; Epicor is an asset
• Experience in casting, machining, metalworking, automotive or another complex manufacturing environment is preferred but not required
• A coach who follows through, holds people accountable and doesn’t avoid tough conversations

Why This Role

• Reports directly to the President, with a seat at the senior leadership table
• A mandate to build and lead, with real authority to change how the plant runs
• Visible impact on an ambitious growth plan
• Straight day shift with minimal travel
• About 80% of your time on the floor at first, moving toward a 50/50 split with planning
• $120,000 to $140,000 base, plus a 10 to 15% performance bonus and benefits

This posting is for an existing vacancy.