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Our new office in Belvidere, IL is seeking an Operations Engineering Manager. The Operations Engineering Manager is responsible for providing leadership to ensure ongoing process improvement initiatives that deliver excellence across entire value chain. This role is responsible for coordinating and leading facility resources and employees to meet or exceed company business objectives. The Operations Engineering Manager will organize strategic initiatives and utilize enterprise standards. This position reports directly to the Operations Director.\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities:\nOversees, directs and assigns activities and responsibilities that ensure the highest level of operating standards regarding facility appearance/cleanness/orderliness and Environmental, Health and Safety\n\nDrives facility operations priorities to meet or exceed customer expectations, meet goals identified through SMART goal deployment, achieve KPI’s and maximize employee contribution and development.\n\nEnsures ongoing success of process improvement initiatives by implementing policies, procedures and process documentation.\n\nDeploys demand driven principals and strategies that supports operational excellence and long range plans. (Flexibility, Speed & Responsiveness)\n\nEnsures product, material and information streams flow and are synchronized to produce maximum efficiencies and lowest cost of operation.\n\nResponsible for creation of innovative ideas to improve business results.\n\nResponsible for creating a safe and healthy work environment by establishing practices, policies and initiatives that allow us to surpass the National Safety Council average for Recordable Injuries and Lost Work Days when compared to companies with similar operations.\n\nEvaluates situations objectively and demonstrates the ability to make decisions that are intended to have a positive impact on work performance or area and the total business.\n\nOrganizes and prioritizes work assignment to complete assignments/tasks on time, with quality, and has the ability to anticipate problem areas in advance. Applies creative problem approaches and ideas to solve problems for area of responsibility.\n\nAccountable for defining resource needs and works within budget and staffing parameters to accomplish objectives for area of responsibility.\n\nAct as Epicore or SAP Super User within functional area as assigned.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business or Industrial Technology OR 8 years related experience in the Operations function within a similar working environment;\n\n5 years of progressive Engineering management experience in similar work environment.\n\nDemonstrated understanding of financial measurements and goals;\n\nDemonstrated understanding and application of lean manufacturing principles;\n\nEffective verbal and written communication skills;\n\nStrong project leadership skills;\n\nPhysical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 - 50 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision and ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.\nGenerac is committed to fair andequitablecompensation practices. The salary range for this role based in Belvidere, IL is $119,300- $178,000 USD. This compensation willultimately bein line with the location in which the position is filled. Final compensation for this role will bedeterminedbyvarious factorssuch as a candidate’s relevant work experience, skills,certificationsand geographic location. This role is eligible for variablecompensationincludingshort-termand long-term incentives.\nThis position includes a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental and vision plans; life, long-term disability, flexible spending and health savings accounts,accruedpaid time off, 8 paid Holidays and 401(k) retirement benefits.\n“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”","description_format":"text","description_chars":4811,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Information Technology","Manufacturing","Energy Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-02T07:29:25Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":24,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.546,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":46,"expected_fill_days":39,"reasons":["conf:11","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-03T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":178000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/generac-manager-operations-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/generac-manager-operations-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-04T01:01:42Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1298,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3702,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-05T00:00:00Z"}}}