Area Operations Manager
Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company with 2020 sales of $27 billion. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain and protect our planet. The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & refining, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, and primary metals. Linde’s industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high-purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions. For more information about the company, please visit our website at 961800298.
Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. is seeking a Regional Operations Manager to join our team located in Grand Rapids, MI.
Area Operations Manager
- Oversees all production & distribution activities for plants as well as all distribution for internal shuttles throughout the markets
- Responsible for safety and compliance (internal Linde standards, FDA, Federal, State, & local regulations for the region.)
- Manages Safety, Productivity, Lean & Six Sigma Initiatives
- Achieves productivity goal through formalized methods like Six Sigma, Lean & Kaizen
- Creates & manages operational plans that result in the accomplishment of LG&E objectives
- Coordinated and facilitates activities and commitments with Sales (Area Managers, GSMs, and BOMs) as well as other departments
- Ensures strategies are appropriately formulated and communication plans are provided
- Establishes goals, promotes decision-making, delegates as appropriate and overcomes obstacles.
- Takes a leadership role in creation and oversight of productivity optimization
- Works with strategic independence, conferring with Senior and Executive Management on more complex assignments
- Monitors trends, develops procedures, and takes actions that set precedents
- Staff, train, coach, and administer performance reviews, salary increases and corrective action of subordinate employees
- Ensures compliance with all applicable internal and external standards
- Other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree required (Engineering degree preferred)
- 10+ years cylinder gas operations experience required
- 5+ years cylinder gas engineering / project management required
- Leadership skill mandatory
- Interpersonal skills mandatory
- Effective Change Agent
- Ambassador to Linde
- Lean and or Six Sigma certified
- Will require travel 50% - 60% of the time
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.
Recommended Skills
- Coaching And Mentoring
- Continuous Quality Improvement (Cqi)
- Corrective And Preventive Action (Capa)
- Decision Making
- Engineering
- Interpersonal Skills