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We invest in the latest equipment and technology, continually seeking the best strategies and solutions to deliver cutting-edge, top-quality products.\nOur Oceanside location is an industry leader in producing high quality complex regulatory, extended content, and booklet labels. Our culture is customer-driven, team-oriented, and built on win-win partnerships.\nWhy Join Us?\nCompetitive pay and a performance-based bonus program\nComprehensive benefits package (medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short/long-term disability)\n401(k) Retirement Plan with a generous company match\nPaid Time Off (PTO)\nCareer growth opportunities within a rapidly expanding company\nJoin our team and be part of a dynamic company that values innovation, teamwork, and continuous improvement!\nOperations Manager\nLead the people, systems, and daily execution behind a complex pressure-sensitive label and shrink-sleeve operation.\nThis is a true site-operations leadership role-not simply a production scheduling position.\nYou will lead the Oceanside, California operation across Flexographic and Digital Hybrid Printing, Finishing, Purchasing, Shipping and Receiving, and Facilities. The right leader will bring discipline to daily execution, develop strong front-line leaders, and improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and team engagement at the same time.\nThe opportunity\nInovar Packaging Group is one of North America's premier printing and packaging companies. Our Oceanside team produces pressure-sensitive labels and shrink sleeves using flexographic and digital-hybrid printing. We invest in modern equipment and technology and build lasting customer relationships through our core values: Customer Focus, Partnership Driven, and Team Engagement.\nWe are looking for an Operations Manager who can see the entire operation, translate business priorities into a practical operating plan, and create an accountable culture in which supervisors and teams know what good looks like every day.\nWhat you will own\nEnd-to-end site execution. Direct daily operations across flexographic and Digital Hybrid printing, converting and finishing of pressure-sensitive labels and shrink sleeves, purchasing, shipping and receiving, and facilities; align priorities so work moves safely and predictably from order release through shipment.\nSafety and compliance. Set a visible safety standard, ensure regulatory and company requirements are met, address hazards promptly, and build safety ownership into routine leader work.\nDelivery, capacity, and flow. Convert demand into staffing, equipment, and shift plans; manage constraints and priorities; and partner with Customer Service to protect customer commitments.\nQuality in pressure-sensitive labels and shrink sleeves. Reinforce process discipline across print and converting specifications, color and registration, material control, traceability, change control, root-cause problem solving, and corrective action.\nOperating performance. Establish a clear daily-management cadence and use meaningful measures such as schedule attainment/OTIF, throughput, uptime, scrap and rework, labor efficiency, overtime, inventory accuracy, quality performance, and safety results.\nContinuous improvement. Lead practical Lean and problem-solving work that removes bottlenecks, reduces waste and variation, shortens lead times, and sustains gains through standard work.\nPeople and leadership. Lead through multiple supervisors, set clear expectations, coach performance, strengthen succession and cross-training, and build a respectful, engaged, high-accountability workplace.\nBusiness and capital planning. Own operating budgets and cost actions; develop workforce and capacity plans; and build sound business cases for equipment, technology, facility, and process investments.\nCross-functional partnership. Work closely with Quality, Sales, Customer Service, Finance, HR, IT, and corporate resources to solve problems at the right level and keep the site aligned with business goals.\nThe leadership scope\nThis role manages multiple supervisors responsible for Flexographic and Digital Hybrid Printing and Finishing; the role also directly oversees Purchasing, Shipping, and Receiving. It is accountable for hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, employee development, policy compliance, and building leadership capability throughout the operation.\nWhat you bring\nEight or more years of progressive manufacturing operations experience, including significant responsibility for safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people performance.\nDemonstrated success leading supervisors or managers across multiple departments, shifts, or value streams-not only managing individual contributors.\nA track record of improving operational results through daily management, standard work, structured problem solving, and disciplined follow-through.\nStrong production-planning and capacity-management judgment, with the ability to balance customer urgency, technical constraints, labor, and cost.\nWorking knowledge of manufacturing financials, labor and material drivers, operating budgets, inventory control, and capital justification.\nClear, direct, respectful communication; comfort holding people accountable while developing them; and the judgment to know when to coach, when to decide, and when to escalate.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office and manufacturing ERP/MIS systems; ability to use operating data to identify gaps and drive action.\nHigh school diploma or GED required. A bachelor's degree in operations, engineering, business, or a related discipline is preferred; equivalent depth of experience will be considered.\nExperience that will set you apart\nLeadership experience in pressure-sensitive labels, shrink sleeves, flexible packaging, printing, converting, or another specification-driven manufacturing environment.\nKnowledge of flexographic and Digital Hybrid printing, pressure-sensitive label converting, and shrink-sleeve production.\nHands-on use of Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, or comparable continuous-improvement methods.\nExperience leading equipment installations, facility improvements, automation, or technology integration.\nPhysical demands and work environment\nThis role works regularly in a manufacturing environment near moving mechanical equipment and at a moderate noise level. It requires a combination of standing, walking, and sitting, as well as occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds. Consistent use of required personal protective equipment and adherence to all safety practices are essential.\nInovar Packaging Group is an equal opportunity employer. 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