Operations Manager

Job Title: Operations Manager

Location:

This role is 100% on site in our Chicago factory.

About Us:

SABIN is a design-forward, rapidly growing company specializing in acoustic and lighting solutions. Our innovative approach and commitment to design excellence drive our fast-paced environment. As demand for our products and services continues to grow, we're seeking a dynamic operational leader to join our team. This role offers solid potential for growth and development.

About Your Role at SABIN:

The Operations Manager will be responsible for connecting our manufacturing activities with our commercial activities and business needs; ensuring we have the systems in place to produce quality products on time in a safe and professional manner. Our production environment is both reliant on high levels of craft and engineering. We make our products on demand to suit the needs of the architectural projects we supply; we do not build and stock. You will optimize operations to support this business model. Sabin was founded in 2021 and is now in a period of strong growth; many processes and policies are being established for the first time—you will design and implement new processes and policies in collaboration with our talented existing team. Sabin has operational problems typical of a growing company, with the resources to solve them. In this role, you will report primarily to the CEO and secondarily to the Co-Founder. Sabin has operational problems typical of a growing company, with the resources to solve them. In this role, you will report primarily to the CEO and secondarily to the Co-Founder. You will work with the manufacturing, product development, systems and sales teams to join or lead initiatives to improve and refine our operations for improved performance and results. We need an energetic operational leader to join our effort in continuing to build this great company.

What You’ll Do:

• Learn and know our business: Learn the ins-and-outs of our business demands and dynamics of our B2B commercial transactions.
• ERP Implementation: Contribute to the continued implementation of our ERP and MRP systems for higher efficiency, reporting, and process management.
• Production Management: Partner with our manufacturing team to plan our production, scheduling work in prudent ways that best use our factory and team to ship projects out on time.
• Material & Purchasing Planning: Partner with our systems team to design more automated processes to ensure that we have the materials needed to build our jobs. Manage the competing pressures of minimizing our lead-times while minimizing our inventory.
• Industrial Engineering: Analyze and improve our flow of data, labor and materials, Partner with our engineering, systems and manufacturing teams to implement changes for improved results.
• Industrial Engineering: Analyze and improve our flow of data, labor and materials, Partner with our engineering, systems and manufacturing teams to implement changes for improved results.

Desired Qualifications:

• Educational Background:A bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or science preferred, other fields are considered.
• Manufacturing experience: Direct experience in a manufacturing environment is a core requirement for this role.
• Organization & Conscientiousness: Naturally organized, with the ability to be assertive about the needs of the business, while being humane and warm when advocating for the business needs.
• Initiative & Collaboration: Be comfortable with SABIN’s proactive approach, where we take the lead and actively move projects forward, ensuring their success.

Desired Characteristics:

• Organized critical thinker: Methodical and analytical thinking are essential for this role. Your natural mindset must be rational, fact-finding and process oriented. You have the natural reflex to organize and bring order, balanced with a belief in the necessity of nimbleness.
• Flexible: Willing to try out differing and opposing ideas, a plainspoken natural mediator and listener. The essence of this role is coordinating and connecting different domains. This requires moderation, deliberation, and adaptability.
• Problems Solver: Comfortable with problems, understanding and defining them, and bringing them all to light. Problems are not something to ignore or shy away from but embrace and comprehend fully for solutioning.
• Learner: Curious, striving. You know you don’t know everything and are always learning, you believe in continuous improvement, growth, and forward-facing transformations. You expect the same from team-mates, at a rate that works for the business goals and team.
• Multi-disciplinary Tendencies: We seek candidates that show a track record of versatility. This role spans different types of work, having a natural interest and experience in a variety of disciplines gives your viewpoint more credibility as a collaborator.
• Comfort with complexity: A mind that enjoys games and puzzles—for project management, untangling logistics puzzles and balancing multi-domain interactions to serve our customer best.
• Imaginative: This is a problem-solving role, the ability to imagine completely new solutions, new ways of working and creatively solve problems is imperative.
• Positive and Proactive: Leadership by example, this role requires a hands-on individual. Someone who is proactive, takes initiative, and inspires the same in team-mates.
• Team sports experience and experience in losing / hardship is a strong plus.

Our Commitment to You:

We offer competitive pay and benefits, and the space to do great work.

SABIN places the highest priority on cultivating an engaging, rewarding and collaborative workplace. We are building an inclusive and creative environment---this opportunity for creative and professional growth is vital to us.

We have high expectations for ourselves and each other, we work diligently and kindly and listen to one another.

Why Join Us?

This is a unique opportunity to join a growing, vibrant company at the forefront of design in the acoustic and lighting industry. You will have the chance to take ownership of your work and the trust to do so. Your ability to adapt, learn, and grow with us will be key to your success and ours.

To learn more about SABIN and our products, please visit SABIN.DESIGN