Operations Manager Role Description

See also Operations Manager

General

• Responsible for operations of OSE
• Manages production director
• Help unblocks fabrication
  • Tooling
  • Sourcing
• Review Designs
• Approves Finances
• Oversees Budget
  • Someone else keeping finance records
• Management of Cashflow
  • Prepare cash flow statements
  • Compile Budgets
• Strategic Planniing
• Recruiting
  • Personal Networks
  • Reviewing Candidates
• Performance Reviews
• Writes Job Description
• Develops Strategic Partnerships
• Engages in Project Managemnet
  • Tracking people's work
• Develops Board of Advisors
• Prepares Contracts
• Requests Bids
• Assures Team Members are focused and directed
• Develops Performance Standards
• Develops Assessment Tools for performanace management
  • Staff
  • Volnteers
• Assures Health and Safety of Community
• Month and semiannual planning
• Maps Milestones
• Maps human capital allocation
• Oversight of prototyping, organization development
  • Operations Flow
• Technical Oversigh
  • Develops Strategic Project Development advisory panels
• asures proper Equipment Management
• Infrastructure Planning
• Manages Recycling infrastructure
• Oversees Logistics and Procurement
  • Does purchasing
• Strategic Development
• Oversees the Facility
• Oversees the Strategic Direction
• Oversees Product Development
• Orverses Strategic Partnerships

Finances

• Prepare and oversee budget
• Keeps financial records
• Manages cash flow (do I have $ for x)
• Prepares cash flow statements
• Compile/review/propose budgets for review by ED

Human Resources

• Involves staff and volunteers
• Reviews candidates
• Does performance reviews
• Compiles job descriptions for agriculture, construction, production, and subject matter experts
• Prepares contacts
• Requests bids
• Ensures team members are focused and directed, and have resources necessary to carry out their jobs
• Sets performance standards and creates assessment tools for staff and volunteers and conducts these assessments
• Creates and ensures a healthy sense of community
• Directs recruiting
• Performs monthly and semi-annual planning and review with team, and maps milestones with team members

Project Development

• Allocates human capital to required tasks
• Oversees productivity of agriculture, construction, fabrication, prototyping, and organizational development, and all other team members

Project Management

• Oversees operations flow
• Oversees technical development
• Oversees review process of remote collaborators' designs

Facility and Equipment Management

• Roads
• Site maintenance
• Recycling
• Logistics/Procurement

Other

• Contributes to strategic development
• Embodies values of the organization
• Helps to translate strategy into practical implementation plans
• Supports ED as necessary
• Contributes to organizational development
• Oversees some process development

Recruiting

• Sunny, Lonny, Renee, Gerard, Gerry - advisory boards; Renee, Craig, Tom Rielly, Tim OReilly, Chris Anderson, Isaiah

Recruiting Team

• David - messaging refinement in announcement
• Emily - messaging consistency; recruting from film set director circles
• Renee - review and passing on to contacts
• Stephanie - role description review
• Claire - contract negotiation
• Dan - contract negotiation, operational aspects
• Catarina - recruiting assistance in OSH circles
• Isaiah - recruiting assistance
• Karien - contract writing and review
• Kavitha - assistant
• Marcin - contract fulfillment
• Bill Carrier - recruiting ex Army Corps of Engineers
• Gerry Ohrstrom - SupporTED, interested in lending a hand.
• Donna Karlin - social networks to pass through
• Sunny Bates - passing it on
• Adrian Hong - advisor

Outreach Required

• Professional headhunters - Chris Traub
• Kansas City - SCORE and
• Lesa Mitchell - KC contacts
• Colby Thomson

Strategic Search

• Top 100 Design Projects
• Cesar
• Tom Rielly
• OSH projects directory
• Catarina -> Nathan -> Dustyn -> Max Whitney
• Simone
• Carl - Sparkling Science