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On site Description: Join BIC World, a community of brands dedicated to creating ingeniously simple and joyful products that have been part of hearts and homes for over 75 years. We are committed to growing our iconic and innovative brands by reimagining everyday essentials in new, sustainable, and responsible ways. Our culture encourages a "roll up your sleeves and get the job done" mindset, ensuring self-starters, problem solvers, and innovative thinkers can truly thrive. At BIC World, you are empowered to take ownership of your career and use your unique perspective to make a meaningful, global impact on our mission. The manager of operations is responsible for overseeing all aspects of a production process, ensuring that products are created safely, efficiently, and of the highest quality. This position will play a pivotal role in planning, coordinating and directing activities that have a direct bearing on the manufacturing of our Lighters. The duties and responsibilities include: • Planning, organizing, directing and running optimum day-to-day operations to exceed customers’ expectations • Increasing production, assets capacity and flexibility while minimizing unnecessary costs and maintaining current quality standards • Being responsible for production output, product quality and on-time shipping • Allocating resources effectively and fully utilizing assets to produce optimal results • Implementing strategies in alignment with strategic manufacturing initiatives set by senior management • Monitoring operations and trigger corrective actions • Collecting and analyzing data to find places of waste or overtime • Developing systems and processes that track and optimize productivity and standards, metrics and performance targets to ensure effective return on assets • Staying up to date with the latest production management best practices and concepts • Ensuring all legal health, safety and quality guidelines are followed • Hire, train, and supervise manufacturing team members • Manage budgets and costs associated with manufacturing processes • Resolve issues and disputes among manufacturing team members • Implement improvements to manufacturing processes and procedures • Prepare and present reports on manufacturing operations and progress to senior management Qualifications • Proven work experience as a manufacturing manager or similar role • Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes and industry standards • Excellent organizational and leadership skills • Good knowledge of health and safety regulations • Understanding of quality standards and systems • Experience with budget and business plan development • BS degree in Business Management, Engineering or relevant field • Ability and want to travel domestic and international. • Managing in a Union environment a plus. LI-hybrid BIC World is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. BIC World is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any team member at BIC via email, or directly to a BIC team member in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of BIC, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by BIC as a result of the referral or through other means. 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