Operations Manager

Posted 2 Days Ago
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South Boston, MA
Entry level
Design
The Role
The Operations Manager will oversee project managers, manage fabrication schedules, improve efficiency, and serve as a high-level account manager with manufacturers while ensuring that operational processes are followed and provide leadership and support to staff.
Summary Generated by Built In

We’re looking for an Operations Management Pro for a standout Boston fabrication company in the window treatment niche focused on quality, collaboration, and exemplary customer service. If you’re looking to add efficiency to a business and oversee a team of excellent project managers in a creative niche, this one’s for you! 

Schedule: 8-5pm, M-F onsite at our South Boston workroom. 
Compensation: Offer range of $75-90, experience dependent 
Benefits: 

  • 10 days PTO, accrual based in year 1. 
  • 5 sick days/year. 
  • 10 paid holidays/year. 
  • Parking or public transportation reimbursement
  • Retirement Savings available through employer.
  • Roth 401k coming in 2025: available after 90 days

A Day in the Life: 

  • Assist with scheduling on behalf of ownership and oversee fabrication schedules. 
  • Act as a people manager of project managers. 
  • Act as a manager of each project manager’s projects at a high level,, gaining oversight through use of Airtable and ensuring all projects meet tight timeline expectations. 
  • Act as a high level account manager with manufacturers. 
  • Maintain a presence on the workroom floor to observe and increase efficiency.
  • Oversee schedule of work and approve time off requests from staff. 
  • Answer staff’s questions on a daily onsite basis. 
  • Review payroll
  • Enforce process
  • Pay bills or write checks
  • Provide safety support, facilities management or utility management 
  • Eventually be first touchpoint for end users and partners

Additional Role Responsibilities:

  • Provide reviews, onboarding and training, managing time tracking, oversee project delivery timeline, job costing and time tracking analysis, setup tech, managing office inventory?
  • Manage productivity and provide feedback to teams, with an eye on process improvement and future innovations. 
  • Improve lead times and clean install rate. 

Qualified Applicants Have:

  • A thirst for efficiency and a go-to, figure-it-out factor. 
  • A natural gift for leadership, including the soft skills that need to accompany an assertive problem solving mindset. 
  • Agility with airtable and quickbooks and a desire to add other tech and tooling innovations for efficiency and boosts in people operations
  • Experience in people operations, facilities management, and HR. 
  • Experience in fabrication or the window treatment niche is a plus. 
  • Priority will be given to former project managers or managers of project managers in the design space. 

Interested and qualified? We can’t wait to talk more! Start a conversation with us by applying today. 

Behind the Design and its affiliates are equal opportunity employers.


 

Top Skills

Airtable
Quickbooks
The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
6 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Behind the Design specializes in recruiting, training, and operations process development for interior design and home remodeling companies. Our mission is to engage, educate, and evolve small businesses, by creating training and operational systems that will inspire their employees, streamline costs, and develop a ROCKSTAR culture to drive profits!

From window coverings to interior design, furniture and flooring, closets and painting or electrical, if you serve a residential or commercial clientele that provides full circle consultation to install services, we will assist you in building your business to be scalable from $2m to $10m and beyond. We will help you find the right people and put them in the right seats, train them to be productive in their sales, customer service, or business development roles, and craft procedure manuals that will give them a roadmap to succeed.

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