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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Site Production Operations Manager

3M Cordova, IL On-site senior full-time

Salary

$188,251 - $230,084 per year

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Description

As a Site Production Operations Manager at 3M, you will have the opportunity to make an impact by creating a world-class safety culture, leading operational excellence, and providing agile and visible leadership.

Responsibilities:

  • Creating a world-class safety culture that delivers outstanding EHS performance and ensuring the health and safety of all workers is consistently demonstrated as the first priority.
  • Leading operational excellence through conscientious management and decisive actions in environmental, health, safety, quality, productivity, and employee relations.
  • Providing agile and visible leadership to cultivate continuous improvement, compliance, accountability, and employee engagement.
  • Practicing principle-based coaching and transformational leadership to develop operator and supervisor skills and create a climate of inclusion and recognition across the site to optimize employee engagement, performance, and alignment.
  • Catalyzing continuous improvement with a focus on safety, productivity, and driving improvement in every area every day.
  • Driving operational discipline through consistency and accountability regarding policies, procedures, and expectations throughout the production organization.
  • Continuing to develop and foster strong, harmonized working relationships with other site, division, and corporate functions to ensure prioritization, operational excellence, and business alignment.
  • Utilizing business acumen to set priorities, minimize downtime, and optimize team efficiency.
  • Demonstrating a growth mindset and approach.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start).
  • Seven (7) years of manufacturing experience in a private, public, government, or military environment.
  • Five (5) years of direct supervisory experience.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical discipline from an accredited institution (completed and verified prior to start).
  • Results-oriented and strong execution skills with demonstrated ability to lead attainment of aggressive performance objectives in EHS, quality, service, and cost.
  • Strong team skills and demonstrated ability to work effectively in a cross-functional matrix organization.
  • Experience leading and implementing Lean Manufacturing principles and Continuous Improvement methodologies for sustained improvements.
  • Experience in operational management excellence.

Benefits:

  • Competitive pay and benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, health savings accounts, and retirement benefits.
  • Opportunities for career development and growth.

Salary Range: $188,251 - $230,084

Skills

Required

  • manufacturing experience
  • supervisory experience
  • operational management

Nice to have

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://3m.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Search/job/US-Illinois-Cordova/Site-Production-Operations-Manager_R01171191

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