Operations Manager - FinFans

Ensuring Chart’s Success…

Cooler By Design – Chart’s core business is centered around the design and fabrication of cryogenic equipment; so you can see where we get our tagline from, right? Well, yes and no – see, we think the products we design and build are pretty cool too. Also, we’re problem solvers. Customers don’t come to Chart with an equipment specification, they come to Chart with a challenge. That’s where you come in, because someone has to figure it out – all the way from conceptual design to installation and commissioning of equipment on-site. Chart’s mission is to provide full solutions across the Nexus of Clean™ – clean power, clean water, clean food, and clean industrials. The diverse applications we service echo our commitment to sustainability – from providing full hydrogen solutions across the value chain, offering small and industrial scale carbon capture solutions to customers globally, creating water treatment systems responsible for treating 4.5 billion gallons of water per day in the U.S. and delivering clean water to over a billion people worldwide, providing equipment and solutions for mission critical space launches, decarbonizing the marine industry, and electrifying the mining space. Chart even contributes to the food and beverage industry by making some of your favorite carbonated beverages possible – If nitro coffee or nitro ice cream is your thing – well, that’s Chart technology too (and it’s also cool)! Interested in learning more? Take a tour of Chart City to get a feel of how Chart equipment solutions impact our daily lives.

The Operations Manager– FinFans will lead the day-to-day operations of our air cooler manufacturing facility located in Theodore, AL. This role is responsible for delivering the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) through operational excellence, strong leadership, and disciplined execution. The Operations Manager will drive safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost performance while developing talent, improving operating processes, and ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction across the business.

What Will You Do?

• Champion a culture of safety, compliance, and employee engagement to align with our core values
• Lead manufacturing operations to achieve annual targets for safety, quality, cost, delivery, inventory, and productivity.
• Execute the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) through effective management of labor, materials, production schedules, and operating costs.
• Build and develop a high-performing leadership team through coaching, succession planning, performance management, and employee development.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives utilizing Lean principles to improve throughput, reduce waste, improve working capital, and increase operational efficiency.
• Monitor and analyze operational and financial performance metrics, implementing corrective actions to achieve business objectives.
• Develop workforce and capacity plans to support customer demand, production requirements, and operational goals.
• Ensure effective cross-functional collaboration with Commercial, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, EH&S, and Finance teams to meet customer commitments.
• Maintain direct engagement with key customers to support operational execution, issue resolution, and customer satisfaction.
• Lead capital project execution and facility improvement initiatives that enhance safety, productivity, capacity, and quality performance.
• Establish operating rhythms and performance reviews that create accountability for results and support achievement of annual business objectives.

Your Physical Work Environment Will Require…

Sitting, standing, stooping, bending, other related tasks in an office setting. Must be able to do occasional lifting of up to 35 lbs as regular daily activities necessitate.

Your Experience Should Be...

• 10+ years of experience with custom fabrication and/or manufacturing
• 5+ years working in an operation leadership role
• Proven track record of being a Safety leader
• Looks to exceed expectations through difficult challenges, finding solutions not problems
• Demonstrable experience in delivering process improvements and business results through leadership of operational excellence activity
• Previous responsibility for a multi-site operation
• Experience in coaching individuals through change to deliver improvements
• Adapts style to coach and mentor individuals and develop teams

Our Benefits Package...