About the role
Our Business
Pulsar Measurement is a worldwide leader in ultrasonic instrumentation for wastewater, industrial, and environmental markets. Since 1986 we have developed, manufactured, and marketed industrial flow and level monitoring instruments including ultrasonic level transmitters, clamp-on ultrasonic flow meters, and open channel flow meters.
The newly restructured TASi Measurement, our parent group, has successfully grown companies who consistently deliver world-class products and services, focusing on our global customer needs in diverse market segments. TASi Measurement’s high repeat customer rate is due to an ability to remain close to our customers reinforced by providing local service and complete engineered solutions and problem solving.
Join us on this exciting journey, as we continue to expand our business.
Your Role
The mission of the Operations Manager is to bring their extensive manufacturing and leadership skillset to advance Pulsar Measurement’s vision of operational excellence in the manufacture of high quality, high performance measurement instrumentation. This leader manages the local manufacturing leadership team, scope covering manufacturing, quality, support, EH&S and their respective teams and functions. This is a critical strategic role for Pulsar Measurement with a high level of influence within the organization.
Your Responsibilities
Based out of our facility in Long Sault, Ontario, Canada your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Provide hands-on leadership to a manufacturing management team focused on developing and improving manufacturing processes, efficiencies, and overall throughput
- Lead team in adoption and implementation of lean manufacturing practices to drive towards a high performance, highly efficient business with a high level of employee engagement.
- Liaise across departments including counterpart teams in the UK, inside sales and Customer service (both locally and in Florida), the R&D and Product Management teams and maintain strong communications with the Senior Leadership Team.
- Manage manufacturing and support engineering deliverables, where tasked to do so, to keep the trains running on time and meet promise lead times and revenue targets
- Set and Monitor Operational KPIs and lead local managers to reinforce a culture of safe work practices, measuring performance and continuous operational improvement.
- Value Stream mapping the processes required for identifying gaps and waste
- Contribute to the effort to identify, investigate, recommend and implement equipment improvements and process systems changes that will improve quality of the finished product
- Drive projects to completion to provide a true economic return
- Improve and verify technical skill levels of all associates on the team
- Identify and address skill performance gaps within converting team
- Have an open mind with a questioning attitude to identify true root cause and implement countermeasure to eliminate failures
- Lead continuous improvement and quality systems compliance including ISO 9001, QAN/QAR, ISO 14001 and ISO 17025.
Travel
- Travel is based on demand when conditions allow. Travel includes but is not limited to regions, factories, offices, customer locations and suppliers.
Your background
You possess a passion and affinity for process automation and enjoy working within a team environment and serving internal customers. You come with strong experience in with manufacturing and engineering, working with data and executing continuous improvement projects to achieve the overall Pulsar Measurement growth objectives..
- 5+ years in a technical leadership role with an emphasis on Manufacturing and aligned to fostering a continuous development culture throughout the organisation.
- Demonstrated success defining and collaborating with growth enabling manufacturing principles, to allow the best to double its size within 5 years.
- A true “Team Player” who can work cross-functionally to achieve results
- Ability to drive change and positively influence key stakeholders
- Ability to identify gaps and implement strategic change in an organized and systematic manner, with the ability to identify skills shortages and implement corrective action plans to develop staff, recruit A Players and build a high performing team.
- Experience operating under ISO 9001 quality systems
Our pledge
Pulsar Measurement recognizes that an inclusive and diverse workplace, where all employees feel respected, valued, and able to achieve their full potential is vitally important. Not only does it inspire creativity and collaboration, but it’s also good for our business. We celebrate our differences and believe our diverse skills, abilities and perspectives strengthen our culture and our overall performance.
TASi Measurement is a global and diverse organization. We are committed to an inclusive workforce that fully represents our many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints. Together, we want a workplace where all our employees feel valued and appreciated, and an environment where nothing limits our creativity, innovation, or success.
Experience
Required
- 5 year(s): Technical leadership role based in manufacturing
Preferred
- 2 - 5 years: Experience operating under ISO 9001 quality systems
- 5 year(s): Ability to drive change and positively influence key stakeholders
- 5 year(s): Demonstrated success defining and collaborating with growth enabling manufacturing principles
Behaviors
Preferred
- Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
- Loyal: Shows firm and constant support to a cause
- Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
- Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking
- Functional Expert: Considered a thought leader on a subject
- Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
- Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
- Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity
Motivations
Preferred
- Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
- Peer Recognition: Inspired to perform well by the praise of coworkers
- Growth Opportunities: Inspired to perform well by the chance to take on more responsibility
- Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks
- Flexibility: Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals
- Entrepreneurial Spirit: Inspired to perform well by an ability to drive new ventures within the business
- Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization
About M2S Group
M2S Group is the leading engineered coating specialist in North America. Our companies have a collective focus on delivering solutions that positively enhance the way people experience everyday life.
We are driven by purpose and unified by values, is built on harnessing the power of materials science and innovation to serve our customers.
Our four values embody how our purpose manifests into attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Everything we do stems from our core values—they shape how we do our job, lead decision-making and guide how we make a positive difference in the world.
Who is Nekoosa? The premier manufacturer of specialty print media. Established in 1961, Nekoosa embodies a strong legacy of manufacturing and converting specialty paper. Our partnerships allow us to sustain a reputation as an innovator with solutions that ensure merchants thrive in the digital printing age. Nekoosa has been private equity owned since 2005 and has continued to be a market leader in producing high-quality products with globally recognized and trusted brands.
Nekoosa’s select brands include: RTape, Catalina Graphic Films, Mojave Digital Media, ClingZ®, NCR Paper, and CET Films
Who is Appvion? The North American leader in specialty and high-performance coatings for thermal label and film applications. Founded in 1907, Appvion innovates sustainable specialty coating solutions that are a part of many tickets, tags, labels, and packages consumers touch daily. Our solutions leverage a unique blend of proprietary processes and technical expertise to provide crisp imaging, which ensures reliable barcode scannability and consistent image quality for pressure-sensitive and non-pressure-sensitive applications.
Appvion’s key brands include: Resiste®, Alpha®, PolyTherm®, Royale®, and OPTIMA®
Who is Decorative Films? The most well-known global brands trust us to enable millions of transactions daily, saving time and labor while reducing error and waste. Founded in 1979, Decorative Films produces and distributes a wide range of ready-to-install window films in the glass coating and solar control window tinting industries. Decorative Films has a sales and installation network of more than 2,850 dealers in the U.S. along with major distributors in Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Italy, India, Australia, and South Africa.
Decorative Films’s select brands include: SOLYX®, SimGlas®, UltraCool®, UltraSafe®, and UltraGlare®
Who is Iconex? A world-wide leader in paper receipt and label solutions. Founded in 2017, Iconex is an industry innovator and market leader in paper receipt and label solutions. The most well-known global brands trust Iconex to enable millions of transactions daily, saving time and labor while reducing error and waste in industries including retail, grocery, pharmacy, hospitality, food and beverage, banks and credit unions, manufacturing, distribution and logistics, and transportation.
Iconex's select brands include: Iconex Sticky Media™, MAXStick®, 2ST™, rE-label™ Technology
About the role
Our Business
Pulsar Measurement is a worldwide leader in ultrasonic instrumentation for wastewater, industrial, and environmental markets. Since 1986 we have developed, manufactured, and marketed industrial flow and level monitoring instruments including ultrasonic level transmitters, clamp-on ultrasonic flow meters, and open channel flow meters.
The newly restructured TASi Measurement, our parent group, has successfully grown companies who consistently deliver world-class products and services, focusing on our global customer needs in diverse market segments. TASi Measurement’s high repeat customer rate is due to an ability to remain close to our customers reinforced by providing local service and complete engineered solutions and problem solving.
Join us on this exciting journey, as we continue to expand our business.
Your Role
The mission of the Operations Manager is to bring their extensive manufacturing and leadership skillset to advance Pulsar Measurement’s vision of operational excellence in the manufacture of high quality, high performance measurement instrumentation. This leader manages the local manufacturing leadership team, scope covering manufacturing, quality, support, EH&S and their respective teams and functions. This is a critical strategic role for Pulsar Measurement with a high level of influence within the organization.
Your Responsibilities
Based out of our facility in Long Sault, Ontario, Canada your responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Provide hands-on leadership to a manufacturing management team focused on developing and improving manufacturing processes, efficiencies, and overall throughput
- Lead team in adoption and implementation of lean manufacturing practices to drive towards a high performance, highly efficient business with a high level of employee engagement.
- Liaise across departments including counterpart teams in the UK, inside sales and Customer service (both locally and in Florida), the R&D and Product Management teams and maintain strong communications with the Senior Leadership Team.
- Manage manufacturing and support engineering deliverables, where tasked to do so, to keep the trains running on time and meet promise lead times and revenue targets
- Set and Monitor Operational KPIs and lead local managers to reinforce a culture of safe work practices, measuring performance and continuous operational improvement.
- Value Stream mapping the processes required for identifying gaps and waste
- Contribute to the effort to identify, investigate, recommend and implement equipment improvements and process systems changes that will improve quality of the finished product
- Drive projects to completion to provide a true economic return
- Improve and verify technical skill levels of all associates on the team
- Identify and address skill performance gaps within converting team
- Have an open mind with a questioning attitude to identify true root cause and implement countermeasure to eliminate failures
- Lead continuous improvement and quality systems compliance including ISO 9001, QAN/QAR, ISO 14001 and ISO 17025.
Travel
- Travel is based on demand when conditions allow. Travel includes but is not limited to regions, factories, offices, customer locations and suppliers.
Your background
You possess a passion and affinity for process automation and enjoy working within a team environment and serving internal customers. You come with strong experience in with manufacturing and engineering, working with data and executing continuous improvement projects to achieve the overall Pulsar Measurement growth objectives..
- 5+ years in a technical leadership role with an emphasis on Manufacturing and aligned to fostering a continuous development culture throughout the organisation.
- Demonstrated success defining and collaborating with growth enabling manufacturing principles, to allow the best to double its size within 5 years.
- A true “Team Player” who can work cross-functionally to achieve results
- Ability to drive change and positively influence key stakeholders
- Ability to identify gaps and implement strategic change in an organized and systematic manner, with the ability to identify skills shortages and implement corrective action plans to develop staff, recruit A Players and build a high performing team.
- Experience operating under ISO 9001 quality systems
Our pledge
Pulsar Measurement recognizes that an inclusive and diverse workplace, where all employees feel respected, valued, and able to achieve their full potential is vitally important. Not only does it inspire creativity and collaboration, but it’s also good for our business. We celebrate our differences and believe our diverse skills, abilities and perspectives strengthen our culture and our overall performance.
TASi Measurement is a global and diverse organization. We are committed to an inclusive workforce that fully represents our many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints. Together, we want a workplace where all our employees feel valued and appreciated, and an environment where nothing limits our creativity, innovation, or success.
Experience
Required
- 5 year(s): Technical leadership role based in manufacturing
Preferred
- 2 - 5 years: Experience operating under ISO 9001 quality systems
- 5 year(s): Ability to drive change and positively influence key stakeholders
- 5 year(s): Demonstrated success defining and collaborating with growth enabling manufacturing principles
Behaviors
Preferred
- Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
- Loyal: Shows firm and constant support to a cause
- Leader: Inspires teammates to follow them
- Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking
- Functional Expert: Considered a thought leader on a subject
- Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
- Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
- Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity
Motivations
Preferred
- Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
- Peer Recognition: Inspired to perform well by the praise of coworkers
- Growth Opportunities: Inspired to perform well by the chance to take on more responsibility
- Goal Completion: Inspired to perform well by the completion of tasks
- Flexibility: Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals
- Entrepreneurial Spirit: Inspired to perform well by an ability to drive new ventures within the business
- Ability to Make an Impact: Inspired to perform well by the ability to contribute to the success of a project or the organization
About M2S Group
M2S Group is the leading engineered coating specialist in North America. Our companies have a collective focus on delivering solutions that positively enhance the way people experience everyday life.
We are driven by purpose and unified by values, is built on harnessing the power of materials science and innovation to serve our customers.
Our four values embody how our purpose manifests into attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Everything we do stems from our core values—they shape how we do our job, lead decision-making and guide how we make a positive difference in the world.
Who is Nekoosa? The premier manufacturer of specialty print media. Established in 1961, Nekoosa embodies a strong legacy of manufacturing and converting specialty paper. Our partnerships allow us to sustain a reputation as an innovator with solutions that ensure merchants thrive in the digital printing age. Nekoosa has been private equity owned since 2005 and has continued to be a market leader in producing high-quality products with globally recognized and trusted brands.
Nekoosa’s select brands include: RTape, Catalina Graphic Films, Mojave Digital Media, ClingZ®, NCR Paper, and CET Films
Who is Appvion? The North American leader in specialty and high-performance coatings for thermal label and film applications. Founded in 1907, Appvion innovates sustainable specialty coating solutions that are a part of many tickets, tags, labels, and packages consumers touch daily. Our solutions leverage a unique blend of proprietary processes and technical expertise to provide crisp imaging, which ensures reliable barcode scannability and consistent image quality for pressure-sensitive and non-pressure-sensitive applications.
Appvion’s key brands include: Resiste®, Alpha®, PolyTherm®, Royale®, and OPTIMA®
Who is Decorative Films? The most well-known global brands trust us to enable millions of transactions daily, saving time and labor while reducing error and waste. Founded in 1979, Decorative Films produces and distributes a wide range of ready-to-install window films in the glass coating and solar control window tinting industries. Decorative Films has a sales and installation network of more than 2,850 dealers in the U.S. along with major distributors in Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Italy, India, Australia, and South Africa.
Decorative Films’s select brands include: SOLYX®, SimGlas®, UltraCool®, UltraSafe®, and UltraGlare®
Who is Iconex? A world-wide leader in paper receipt and label solutions. Founded in 2017, Iconex is an industry innovator and market leader in paper receipt and label solutions. The most well-known global brands trust Iconex to enable millions of transactions daily, saving time and labor while reducing error and waste in industries including retail, grocery, pharmacy, hospitality, food and beverage, banks and credit unions, manufacturing, distribution and logistics, and transportation.
Iconex's select brands include: Iconex Sticky Media™, MAXStick®, 2ST™, rE-label™ Technology