Business Manager
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2 days ago
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Job Summary
Job Description
Job Summary
The Business Manager is the primary operations support leader for a defined production area. This role partners with the Area Manager and Shift Leaders to translate plant objectives into staffing scheduling cost and performance plans. The Business Manager focuses on people planning and performance analytics enabling frontline leaders to run safe stable and efficient operations across all shifts.
Key Responsibilities
1. Safety Culture & Compliance
- Support a zeroinjury culture by ensuring accurate staffing plans for safetycritical work required training completion and adherence to plant/Corporate policies.
- Help track and analyze safety metrics (RIR/LWDC SOT completion safety concerns) and support followup on actions.
2. Operations Planning & Staffing
- Own headcount and shift staffing plans for the area (regular OT vacations leaves training) aligned to volume and budget.
- Maintain and update flex charts JIT training status and rotation plans so Shift Leaders and Group Leaders have the right skills available on each shift.
- Support weekend and shutdown staffing and worklist planning in partnership with Maintenance ME and Production.
3. People & Talent Support
- Partner with Area Manager/Shift Leaders on talent planning: succession development plans HRM inputs HRM tracker updates and calibration prep.
- Coordinate required peoplerelated actions (e.g. job moves relevels schedule changes) in Workday and local trackers in partnership with HR/LR.
- Help ensure new leaders and employees have onboarding plans JIT training and required baseline knowledge completed.
4. Financial & Performance Management
- Support budget management for the area (labor overtime scrap/rework consumables) by preparing forecasts tracking actuals and highlighting variances.
- Build and maintain SPQRCE/MEI and productivity dashboards for the area; provide daily/weekly reports for leadership huddles and HRM.
- Identify and quantify costreduction and productivity opportunities; track benefits of implemented improvements.
5. GMS / TIP & Continuous Improvement
- Coordinate arealevel GMS/TIP routines: BPD boards metric updates problemsolving followup and audit schedules.
- Standardize and maintain administrative standard work (reports trackers meeting cadences) to support consistency across shifts and leaders.
6. Governance Communication & Projects
- Act as the central coordination point for Area Manager across shifts: consolidate issues actions and plans from all shifts into a single view.
- Prepare content for plant and sector forums (e.g. area updates for staff meetings HRM WOC/talent decks special project readouts).
- Provide assistance in analyzing and solving complex operational problems using data and help establish recommendations and plans to complete key projects.
Qualifications
- Postsecondary education in Business Operations Engineering or related field or equivalent experience in manufacturing operations support.
- Experience in highvolume manufacturing preferably in a peopleleader or operations support role (e.g. GL/TL planning or CI).
- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel and common reporting tools; comfort working with SPQRCE/MEI labor and budget data.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with frontline leaders influence without direct authority and manage multiple priorities in a fastpaced environment.
- Effective communication and relationshipbuilding skills across production HR/LR ME Maintenance Quality GSC and Finance.
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