Operations Manager Role Description

See also Operations Manager

General

• Shadows ED and takes over roles as practical and possible
• Develops operations strategy
• Manage production director
• Help unblocks fabrication
  • Tooling
  • Sourcing
• Review Designs
• Approving Financing
• Overseeing Budget
  • Someone else keeping finance records
• Management Cashflow
  • Prepare cash flow statements
  • Compile Budgets
• Strategic Planniing
• Recruiting
  • Personal Networks
  • Reviewing Candidates
• Performance Reviews
• Writes Job Description
• Strategic Partnerships
• Project Managemnet
  • Tracking people's work
• Board of Advisors
• Preparing Contracts
• Requesting Bids
• Team Members are focused and directed
• Performance Standards
• Assessment Tools
  • Staff
  • Volnteers
• Health and Safety of Community
• Month and semiannual plan in
• Map Milestones
• Map human capital
• Oversight of prototyping, organization development
• Operations Flow
• Technical Oversigh
• Equipment Management
• Infrastructure Planniing
• Recycling
• Logistics and Procurement
• Buying stuff
• Strategic Development
• Overseeing the Facility
• Overseeing the Strategic Direction
• Overseeing Product Development
• Orverseeing 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