Operations Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Manage and oversee the operational team, ensuring that performance targets and quality standards are consistently met.
• Operational Planning: Develop and adapt departmental plans, budgets and priorities to address resource allocation and operational challenges effectively. (Responsible for budget and cost control.)
• Performance Management: Conduct member performance appraisals, handle hiring and training processes, and implement development plans to enhance team capabilities.
• Problem Resolution: Identify and resolve technical and operational issues, ensuring minimal disruption to departmental objectives and overall performance.
• Cross Functional Coordination: Collaborate with other departments to integrate business processes and achieve strategic operational goals.

Key Skills

• Leadership: The ability to guide, motivate, and inspire multiple teams or departments to achieve organizational goals by aligning resources, fostering cross‑functional collaboration, and driving accountability across broader operations.
• Critical Thinking, Problem Solving: The ability to lead teams in analyzing situations, evaluate options, and develop effective solutions using logic, creativity, and sound judgment.

Operational Management

Proficient in managing and motivating teams to enhance performance and achieve safety, quality, delivery, and cost targets. Adept at monitoring and managing financial performance, including budgeting and cost control within the area of responsibility.

Communication

Sets example and models excellent communication skills with stakeholders, support teams, and with own team.

Time Management

Ability to identify critical tasks and allocate time and resources accordingly. Balances urgent production needs with medium‑term improvement initiatives. Consistently meets production and delivery targets. Manages competing priorities without compromising quality or safety.

Lean Mindset

Proficent with 5S, Visual Management, Standardized Work, Daily Management Systems, Flow / Pull, Value Stream Mapping and Improvement through Kaizen. Leads Production System implementation elements of member, machine, and material capacity planning. Leads DMS. Knowledgeable in how different business areas interact and integrates operations to support overall business objectives.

Computer Skills

Strong skills in Excel, Power BI, or Tableau for operational reporting. Ability to analyze production data to identify trends, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities. Proficiency in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like SAP. User level understaning of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) for inventory and production scheduling.

Emotional Intelligence

The ability to recognize, understand, and manage your own emotions while effectively perceiving and responding to the emotions of others. This includes skills such as empathy, self‑awareness, emotional regulation, social awareness, and relationship management to foster positive interactions and resolve challenges constructively.

Collaboration

Involves working closely with team members, other departments, senior management, and external partners to align goals, improve processes, and ensure smooth operations. This includes fostering open communication, coordinating across functions, solving problems, and supporting team development while maintaining a focus on efficiency and productivity. (Executive presence.)

Other Qualifications

Aken - Certified Technician/ Bachelor

What does it mean to be part of Woodward?

It means contributing to what matters most in your career, in your community and around the world. It means being a part of rewarding experiences, where innovation, collaboration and problem‑solving are at the heart of what we do.

Woodward is the global leader in the design, manufacturing, and service of energy conversion and control solutions for the aerospace and industrial equipment markets. Together with our customers, we are enabling the path to a cleaner, decarbonized world. Our innovative fluid, combustion, electrical, propulsion and motion control systems perform in some of the world’s harshest environments.

At Woodward we have created a culture that appreciates and values the contributions of every member. We are a global team of curious, innovative problem‑solvers who commit our knowledge, resources and technical expertise to the challenges associated with reducing emissions, enabling alternative energy sources and increasing efficiency, always innovating for a better future. Woodward is working with our customers to solve some of the world’s biggest energy challenges. This important work needs more than just the brightest technical minds. It requires talented and committed manufacturin