Assistant Operations Manager Jobs in Washington
Assistant Operations Manager jobs in Washington are concentrated in Seattle, Bellevue, and Tacoma, where employers like Amazon, Boeing, and Providence Health and Services maintain large operations that consistently need this level of management. Demand is especially strong in e-commerce fulfillment, aerospace supply chain, and healthcare administration, with openings at every level from first-line supervisor to deputy operations director. Washington is among the most active markets in the country for this role given the density of logistics, technology, and healthcare employers anchored here. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Top employerAmazon
Top citySeattle, WA
Cities hiring7
Work type100% On-site
Top credentialHigh school diploma or GED
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Asst Mgr Operations - Weekend (Friday-Monday)
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REI
Asst Mgr Operations - Weekend (Friday-Monday)
Sumner, Washington
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Assistant Operations Manager
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Recycle Warehouse
Assistant Operations Manager
Mukilteo, Washington
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Assistant Store Manager - Operations
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At Home The Home Decor Superstore
Assistant Store Manager - Operations
Kennewick, Washington
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Mgr. Supply Chain Operations, PAC
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Amazon.com
Mgr. Supply Chain Operations, PAC
Seattle, Washington
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Assistant Food and Beverage Operations Manager
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Marriott International
Assistant Food and Beverage Operations Manager
Seattle, Washington
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Asst Mgr Operations - Weekend (Friday-Monday)
REI·Sumner, Washington
Job functions:
$97k.22 - $155k.91/yr
10,000+ employees
Job Description
Overview:
REI Co-op is united around discovering, building and celebrating better ways of working in this world, all so that folks can find and pursue a love of the outdoors. When you work for the co-op, you do your best work with the support to live your best life. And you play a part in shaping the future of the outdoors, for people and our planet.
This job contributes to REI’s success by serving as an Assistant Manager, Operations overseeing building workload planning and operational production analysis to coordinate building labor and staffing plans. This position is responsible for planning and execution of building initiatives, budgets, and the performance of team operations. In addition, this job requires managing a diverse set of employees and is responsible for providing operational guidance and development for Supervisors, Operations and their direct reports. This job creates, plans, and executes a 1-3 year business plan supporting supply chain projects, key performance indicators, and operational efficiency. This position models and leads expectations for daily operations, considering safety expectations, adequate and appropriate staffing, execution of departmental expenses, and establishes accountability across all levels of employees. Models and acts in accordance with REI’s guiding values and mission.
Responsibilities and Qualifications:
Pay Transparency
WEEKEND (Friday- Monday)
REI Co-op is united around discovering, building and celebrating better ways of working in this world, all so that folks can find and pursue a love of the outdoors. When you work for the co-op, you do your best work with the support to live your best life. And you play a part in shaping the future of the outdoors, for people and our planet.
This job contributes to REI’s success by serving as an Assistant Manager, Operations overseeing building workload planning and operational production analysis to coordinate building labor and staffing plans. This position is responsible for planning and execution of building initiatives, budgets, and the performance of team operations. In addition, this job requires managing a diverse set of employees and is responsible for providing operational guidance and development for Supervisors, Operations and their direct reports. This job creates, plans, and executes a 1-3 year business plan supporting supply chain projects, key performance indicators, and operational efficiency. This position models and leads expectations for daily operations, considering safety expectations, adequate and appropriate staffing, execution of departmental expenses, and establishes accountability across all levels of employees. Models and acts in accordance with REI’s guiding values and mission.
Responsibilities and Qualifications:
- Identifies and communicates key responsibilities and practices to ensure the organization promotes a successful attitude, confidence in leadership, and teamwork to achieve business results.
- Supports the implementation of company programs, procedures, methods and practices to promote REI key messages.
- Challenges and inspires employees to achieve business results.
- Ensures employees adhere to legal and operational compliance requirements.
- Oversees training and development of employees directly and indirectly managed and makes effective staffing decisions.
- Conducts and ensures the completion of performance reviews.
- Provides coaching, direction and leadership support to employees in order to achieve department, company and customer results.
- Establishes and maintains visibility within the department.
- Monitors operational statistics, reports trends, variances and issues, and takes appropriate action.
- Organize, coordinate, and communicate building workload planning to a functional level on a daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal timeline. Apply industry best practices to internal freight movement, partnering with peers to find the most efficient means of realizing production goals.
- Provide detailed analysis of production rates at a division, department, and individual level to assist operational supervisors in projecting long term staffing levels.
- Coordinate building labor and staffing plans for both the short and long term to include managing temporary employee program, cross training program utilization, and seasonal and annual hiring processes.
- Partner with Finance, Merchandising, Retail, and the Global Supply Chain team to project and report on Key Performance Indicators and update building Visual Controls.
- Define and develop production based projects, to include product placement, seasonal space planning, and Warehouse Management System improvements
- Actively coordinates and/or leads Continuous Improvement projects to increase department productivity and cost controls
- Coordinate Promotion and Event planning for the Distribution center operation to include the creation of plans, overall building execution accountability, and post operation lessons learned documentation.
- Supervise the Records Clerk employees to meet Company needs; communicates Company policies and procedures; hires, trains and evaluates department employees; forecasts for future staffing and training needs.
- Serve as an example to other employees by consistently demonstrating exemplary work habits, which contribute to teamwork, productivity, and efficiency; maintains own current functional knowledge and skills to assist staff with daily workload as needed
- Develop, monitor, and operate within departmental annual payroll, capital and expense budgets.
- Maintain ongoing relationships and serve as member on various committees to represent departmental and/or overall Company interests; communicate Company needs and expectations internally or externally; provide review, input, and recommendations as appropriate
Your Qualities:
- 3+ years experience in leadership, successfully leading a team of employees
- 5+ years experience in Distribution or relevant experience; which includes distribution training or a logistics degree from an accredited college (preferred)
- Ability to work a flexible schedule; covering 24/7 operations
- Experience with profit loss responsibility; preferred over $1M in expenses and with multiple operational disciplines
- Ability to understand and communicate variances to operations; which include but are not limited to: finances, productivity, or customer service issues.
- 2+ years experience developing analytics and production tracking
- Builds capacity of individuals and teams through effective employee development, involvement, communication, and supervision efforts.
- Creates a strong, mutually supportive work spirit and culture where people can do their best.
- Establishes trust and inspires others.
- Makes effective organization and people decisions in a manner consistent with REI's values and ethics.
- Delivers on commitments and holds others to same.
- Champions the organization and advocates solutions in the overall Company's best interest.
- Uses business knowledge, innovative thinking, and sound judgment in the solution of problems or the pursuit of business opportunities.
- Consolidates information from various sources including feedback from others to reach sound decisions.
- Considers the ultimate impact of decisions and actions on internal and external customers.
- Fosters change in company direction.
- Effectively plans and executes changes.
At REI, we believe the outdoors is for all. We are committed to becoming a fully inclusive, anti-racist, multicultural organization. We know that there's strength in our diversity – that each employee brings unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. Every day you are driving change, fostering a culture of respect, and knowing you're backed by benefits that support your whole life. To work towards this commitment and fulfill our brand promise of inspiring and enabling a life outside for everyone, we seek employees who demonstrate different ways of working, create a sense of belonging, and actively listen and learn.
Pay Transparency
We are committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. As required by applicable Pay Transparency laws, REI provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location or other relevant factors.
REI offers all regular employees a generous employee discount, access to health benefits, a retirement savings plan and accrued time off. Click here for a detailed overview of benefits plans by employee profile.
Base Pay Range: $97,053.22 - $155,123.90 per yearREI
Asst Mgr Operations - Weekend (Friday-Monday)
Sumner, Washington
New 11h ago10,000+ employees
Job functions:
$97k.22 - $155k.91/yr
Job Description
Overview:
REI Co-op is united around discovering, building and celebrating better ways of working in this world, all so that folks can find and pursue a love of the outdoors. When you work for the co-op, you do your best work with the support to live your best life. And you play a part in shaping the future of the outdoors, for people and our planet.
This job contributes to REI’s success by serving as an Assistant Manager, Operations overseeing building workload planning and operational production analysis to coordinate building labor and staffing plans. This position is responsible for planning and execution of building initiatives, budgets, and the performance of team operations. In addition, this job requires managing a diverse set of employees and is responsible for providing operational guidance and development for Supervisors, Operations and their direct reports. This job creates, plans, and executes a 1-3 year business plan supporting supply chain projects, key performance indicators, and operational efficiency. This position models and leads expectations for daily operations, considering safety expectations, adequate and appropriate staffing, execution of departmental expenses, and establishes accountability across all levels of employees. Models and acts in accordance with REI’s guiding values and mission.
Responsibilities and Qualifications:
Pay Transparency
WEEKEND (Friday- Monday)
REI Co-op is united around discovering, building and celebrating better ways of working in this world, all so that folks can find and pursue a love of the outdoors. When you work for the co-op, you do your best work with the support to live your best life. And you play a part in shaping the future of the outdoors, for people and our planet.
This job contributes to REI’s success by serving as an Assistant Manager, Operations overseeing building workload planning and operational production analysis to coordinate building labor and staffing plans. This position is responsible for planning and execution of building initiatives, budgets, and the performance of team operations. In addition, this job requires managing a diverse set of employees and is responsible for providing operational guidance and development for Supervisors, Operations and their direct reports. This job creates, plans, and executes a 1-3 year business plan supporting supply chain projects, key performance indicators, and operational efficiency. This position models and leads expectations for daily operations, considering safety expectations, adequate and appropriate staffing, execution of departmental expenses, and establishes accountability across all levels of employees. Models and acts in accordance with REI’s guiding values and mission.
Responsibilities and Qualifications:
- Identifies and communicates key responsibilities and practices to ensure the organization promotes a successful attitude, confidence in leadership, and teamwork to achieve business results.
- Supports the implementation of company programs, procedures, methods and practices to promote REI key messages.
- Challenges and inspires employees to achieve business results.
- Ensures employees adhere to legal and operational compliance requirements.
- Oversees training and development of employees directly and indirectly managed and makes effective staffing decisions.
- Conducts and ensures the completion of performance reviews.
- Provides coaching, direction and leadership support to employees in order to achieve department, company and customer results.
- Establishes and maintains visibility within the department.
- Monitors operational statistics, reports trends, variances and issues, and takes appropriate action.
- Organize, coordinate, and communicate building workload planning to a functional level on a daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal timeline. Apply industry best practices to internal freight movement, partnering with peers to find the most efficient means of realizing production goals.
- Provide detailed analysis of production rates at a division, department, and individual level to assist operational supervisors in projecting long term staffing levels.
- Coordinate building labor and staffing plans for both the short and long term to include managing temporary employee program, cross training program utilization, and seasonal and annual hiring processes.
- Partner with Finance, Merchandising, Retail, and the Global Supply Chain team to project and report on Key Performance Indicators and update building Visual Controls.
- Define and develop production based projects, to include product placement, seasonal space planning, and Warehouse Management System improvements
- Actively coordinates and/or leads Continuous Improvement projects to increase department productivity and cost controls
- Coordinate Promotion and Event planning for the Distribution center operation to include the creation of plans, overall building execution accountability, and post operation lessons learned documentation.
- Supervise the Records Clerk employees to meet Company needs; communicates Company policies and procedures; hires, trains and evaluates department employees; forecasts for future staffing and training needs.
- Serve as an example to other employees by consistently demonstrating exemplary work habits, which contribute to teamwork, productivity, and efficiency; maintains own current functional knowledge and skills to assist staff with daily workload as needed
- Develop, monitor, and operate within departmental annual payroll, capital and expense budgets.
- Maintain ongoing relationships and serve as member on various committees to represent departmental and/or overall Company interests; communicate Company needs and expectations internally or externally; provide review, input, and recommendations as appropriate
Your Qualities:
- 3+ years experience in leadership, successfully leading a team of employees
- 5+ years experience in Distribution or relevant experience; which includes distribution training or a logistics degree from an accredited college (preferred)
- Ability to work a flexible schedule; covering 24/7 operations
- Experience with profit loss responsibility; preferred over $1M in expenses and with multiple operational disciplines
- Ability to understand and communicate variances to operations; which include but are not limited to: finances, productivity, or customer service issues.
- 2+ years experience developing analytics and production tracking
- Builds capacity of individuals and teams through effective employee development, involvement, communication, and supervision efforts.
- Creates a strong, mutually supportive work spirit and culture where people can do their best.
- Establishes trust and inspires others.
- Makes effective organization and people decisions in a manner consistent with REI's values and ethics.
- Delivers on commitments and holds others to same.
- Champions the organization and advocates solutions in the overall Company's best interest.
- Uses business knowledge, innovative thinking, and sound judgment in the solution of problems or the pursuit of business opportunities.
- Consolidates information from various sources including feedback from others to reach sound decisions.
- Considers the ultimate impact of decisions and actions on internal and external customers.
- Fosters change in company direction.
- Effectively plans and executes changes.
At REI, we believe the outdoors is for all. We are committed to becoming a fully inclusive, anti-racist, multicultural organization. We know that there's strength in our diversity – that each employee brings unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. Every day you are driving change, fostering a culture of respect, and knowing you're backed by benefits that support your whole life. To work towards this commitment and fulfill our brand promise of inspiring and enabling a life outside for everyone, we seek employees who demonstrate different ways of working, create a sense of belonging, and actively listen and learn.
Pay Transparency
We are committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. As required by applicable Pay Transparency laws, REI provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location or other relevant factors.
REI offers all regular employees a generous employee discount, access to health benefits, a retirement savings plan and accrued time off. Click here for a detailed overview of benefits plans by employee profile.
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Find JobsAssistant Operations Manager Jobs by City in Washington
Where Washington roles are concentrated, by current openings.
Seattle
4 jobsTacoma
2 jobsSumner
1 jobBellevue
1 jobMukilteo
1 jobKennewick
1 jobShoreline
1 jobAssistant Operations Manager Job Market in Washington
A snapshot from current Washington openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
What Washington Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in assistant operations manager jobs across Washington.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, operations management, or a related field
- Three or more years of supervisory or operations experience in a relevant industry
- Demonstrated experience with process improvement methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma
- Proficiency with operations software, ERP platforms, and workforce scheduling tools
- Strong communication skills for coordinating across cross-functional teams and departments
- Ability to analyze operational data and translate findings into actionable workflow changes
Assistant Operations Manager Jobs in Washington: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a assistant operations manager in Washington?
Most assistant operations manager roles in Washington require a bachelor's degree in business administration, operations management, supply chain, or a closely related field, though some employers accept an associate degree combined with substantial supervisory experience. Washington does not require a state-issued license specifically for this role. Employers in sectors like healthcare or aerospace may expect familiarity with industry-specific compliance standards, and earning a certification such as a Certified Associate in Project Management credential strengthens most applications.
Which companies hire assistant operations managers in Washington?
Companies currently hiring assistant operations managers in Washington include Amazon, Marriott International, and REI, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Washington's mix of major logistics operations, healthcare systems, and aerospace manufacturers means demand for this role stays consistent across multiple industries year-round.
Which Washington cities have the most assistant operations manager jobs?
Seattle, Tacoma, and Sumner account for the highest concentration of assistant operations manager openings in Washington. Seattle and Bellevue drive most of the volume because of the dense cluster of technology, e-commerce, and corporate headquarters there, while Tacoma's port and logistics infrastructure generates steady demand, and Spokane's growing healthcare and manufacturing base supports hiring in Eastern Washington.
Are there remote assistant operations manager jobs in Washington?
Yes, but they're rare. About 0% of assistant operations manager openings tied to Washington are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting that most of the work involves overseeing facilities, staff, and physical workflows that require an on-site presence. The portions of the role most likely to be done remotely include reporting, scheduling, and vendor communication, while floor management and direct team oversight almost always require being on location.
How can I get hired as a assistant operations manager in Washington with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into an assistant operations manager role from a team lead, shift supervisor, or operations coordinator position within the same organization. Large Washington employers like Amazon fulfillment centers and Providence Health and Services regularly promote internally from frontline roles, and Boeing and its suppliers often place associates from internal rotational or apprenticeship programs into supervisory tracks. Building familiarity with Lean operations principles and earning a foundational project management credential signals readiness even without a long management history.
Where can I find and apply to assistant operations manager jobs in Washington?
You can find and apply to assistant operations manager jobs in Washington on Migrate Mate, which lists current Washington openings updated regularly. Search the listings to find roles that match your background, industry, and preferred location across the state, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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