Operations manager
ABB
- Saint-Laurent, QC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible to implement and sponsor Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) and all other business compliance standards and regulations across all operations functions. Accountable to ensure a safe work environment and continuous improvement in HSE processes and integrity performance.
- Responsible to implement and sponsor a strong integrity culture within the operations team and beyond.
- Accountable to ensure compliance with global and local standards, rules, policies, and procedures related to Operations/Project execution. Responsible to introduce standards and guidelines, standardized processes, and KPIs.
- Accountable for operational risk management. Validates and improves reliability and effectiveness of business operations.
- Accountable to manage budgets for project management, and engineering and to meet project profitability.
- Accountable to effectively balance resources capacity with customer-demand and workload. Focuses on achievement of operating cash flow, project on-time and on- cost, requested on-time delivery (ROTD) and cost reduction.
- Ensures that operations resources implement improvements that address issues identified through Internal and external Customer feedback and other voice of the customer initiatives.
- Responsible to champion a culture of Continuous Improvement across the organization.
- Accountable for the effective deployment of ABB’s Quality strategy for the local divisions.
- Responsible for Quality assurance, and for the implementation of an integrated quality management system for their area of responsibility
- Ensure that the area of responsibility is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed. Coaches, motivates, and develops direct and indirect subordinates.
- Responsible to create and maintain an operational team that lives the ABB values daily (Care, Courage, Curiosity and Collaboration)
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (preferred) or other relevant disciplines
- A minimum of 10 years of experience in a management role
- Strong business knowledge from an operational and financial perspective allowing for critical business decision making.
- Bilingual English and French written and spoken (preferable)
- Ability to create operational plans and execute them
- Ability to foster engagement within team by building a trusting, safe and open team environment.
- Ability to manage through subordinate managers and professionals in larger groups of moderate-complex situations.
- Capable of resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments.
- Demonstrate strong leadership and communication skills.
- Strategic thinker and business savvy
- Motivated, self-starter, able to work independently.
- Influence skills to be able to represent Canada’s requirement.
- Hybrid work environment
- Travel required approx. 10% of the time
- Retirement plan
- Accident insurance
- Healthcare plan
- Wellbeing program