Senior Operations Manager

Overview

As a Senior Operations Manager at Baker Hughes, you will lead across multiple manufacturing areas to ensure safe, efficient, and on-time delivery of products, while elevating world-class performance. You will coach Operations Managers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape site manufacturing strategy and growth. You’ll drive continuous improvement, optimize metrics across safety, quality, and cost, and manage workforce capacity for scalable operations. This role offers a meaningful opportunity to influence manufacturing excellence and sustainable outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Tailored financial and retirement programs
• Professional development and career growth opportunities
• Wellbeing initiatives

Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing operations across multiple production areas to ensure safe, efficient, and high-quality execution
• Coach and develop Operations Managers to foster accountability and high performance
• Drive delivery performance by meeting production schedules and customer commitments
• Monitor and improve metrics across safety, quality, delivery, productivity, inventory, and cost
• Lead operational reviews, escalation processes, and recovery plans to mitigate risks
• Manage workforce planning, resource allocation, labor utilization, and capacity across operations
• Collaborate with Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Planning, HR, HSE and other stakeholders to optimize factory performance
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on productivity, efficiency, cost reduction, and overall excellence

Key requirements

• Significant leadership experience in a complex manufacturing, industrial, or production environment
• Proven track record of leading multiple production areas through operational leadership teams
• Demonstrated improvements in safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and cost performance
• Strong knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Operational Excellence, and continuous improvement methodologies
• Experience managing large, multi-disciplinary manufacturing organizations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to leverage performance data
• Experience in production management, workforce planning, resource allocation, and capacity planning
• Excellent leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills across all levels of the organization

• Leadership and people development
• Stakeholder management and collaboration
• Strategic thinking and communication
• Lean Manufacturing
• Operational Excellence
• Continuous Improvement

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