Operations Manager
Role Responsibilities
- Partner with senior leadership to enhance site performance, efficiency, and safety culture
- Drive operational excellence through measurable continuous improvement initiatives
- Support delivery of site KPIs and budget targets, ensuring effective cost control
- Lead forecasting activities across multiple metrics, including customer demand and resource planning
- Define and implement improvement projects that enhance competitiveness and operational efficiency
- Champion change management and foster a high-performance culture across all teams
- Evaluate existing processes and introduce smarter, more efficient ways of working
- Establish and monitor KPIs to ensure optimal process performance
- Lead and support critical business improvement projects
- Collaborate cross-functionally to meet organisational goals and deadlines
- Support organisational design and workforce planning aligned to business needs
- Provide expert input into corporate initiatives, policy reviews, and change programmes
- Promote employee engagement, motivation, and a people-first culture
- Support HR on industrial relations matters when required
Qualifications
- Proven leadership experience within a manufacturing, production, or similar environment
- Strong track record of building and developing high-performing teams
- Experience leading change and delivering continuous improvement (Lean / Six Sigma desirable)
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organisational skills
- Ability to analyse processes and implement effective solutions
- Degree in Engineering, Operations, Business Management, or a related field (preferred)
- Equivalent industry experience will also be considered
This is an onsite role at our growing palnt in Campsie, Derry where you will be part of a team of 3 Operations Managers supporting the Plant Manager
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The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv's Core Principles & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.
OUR CORE PRINCIPLES: Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.
OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
High-Performance Culture
Customer Focus
Operational Excellence
Innovation
Financial Strength
VERTIV BEHAVIORS
Own it
Act with urgency
Foster a customer-first mindset
Think big and execute
Lead by example
Drive continuous improvement
Learn and seek out development
Promote transparent & open communication
About Vertiv
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers' vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today's data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.
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