Job Summary Required Qualifications and Skills
We are seeking an Operations Manager for a temp-to-hire opportunity in Chino, CA within a metal fabrication and welding production environment. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on operations leader who is ready to grow into a larger management role quickly based on performance.
The Operations Manager will begin in a junior capacity supporting the current manager, with a clear path for advancement for someone who demonstrates strong leadership, accountability, production awareness, and the ability to keep teams organized and on task. This role is ideal for a candidate who enjoys working closely with production employees, coordinating workflow, supporting leadership priorities, and helping create a productive, compliant, and well-organized shop environment.
This opportunity offers a supportive leadership structure, strong team collaboration, and the ability to make a visible impact on daily operations, production flow, customer paperwork, vendor coordination, and overall shop efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure daily production priorities are completed, including packaging, shipments, welding, forming, cutting, and other priority production items.
- Monitor employee compliance related to work hours, behavior, efficiency, productivity standards, and shop floor policies, including cell phone usage.
- Coordinate preparation for work in process by ensuring materials are organized, allocated, and ready for production.
- Organize incoming and outgoing vendor activity according to weekly leadership priorities.
- Maintain and organize customer paperwork while serving as a liaison with inside sales, drafters, project managers, and other internal teams.
- Support the current operations manager with day-to-day production management, workflow coordination, and process improvement.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: $65,000 to $75,000 per year.
- Job type: Temp-to-hire.
- Coordinate production priorities across welding, forming, cutting, packaging, and shipping functions.
- Support shop floor operations by keeping materials, work in process, customer paperwork, and vendor activity organized.
- Monitor employee efficiency, compliance, behavior, and production readiness.
- Communicate with internal teams, including inside sales, drafters, and project managers, to support customer and production needs.
- Management-level experience in manufacturing, production, operations, metal fabrication, welding, or a related industrial environment.
- Strong understanding of production workflow, shop floor priorities, material organization, and shipment readiness.
- Ability to lead employees, enforce policies, and maintain accountability in a fast-paced production setting.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage paperwork, coordinate priorities, and follow through on details.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to work effectively with production employees, vendors, leadership, and office teams.
- Hands-on leadership style with a focus on efficiency, compliance, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to grow into increased responsibility based on performance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in metal fabrication, welding, forming, cutting, or custom manufacturing operations.
- Prior experience supporting production scheduling, vendor coordination, shipping priorities, or work-in-process organization.
- Background working with inside sales, drafting teams, project managers, or customer-facing production documentation.
- Bilingual communication skills may be helpful in a manufacturing environment.
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