Manufacturing Operations Manager Jobs in Georgia
Manufacturing Operations Manager jobs in Georgia are among the most active in the Southeast, concentrated in automotive assembly, aerospace components, food and beverage processing, and industrial distribution across entry-level supervisor roles through senior plant leadership. The heaviest hiring is in the Atlanta metro, Columbus, and Savannah, where employers like Kia Georgia, Gulfstream Aerospace, and Mohawk Industries maintain large manufacturing footprints and hire continuously. The most in-demand specialties are lean manufacturing, supply chain optimization, and quality systems management. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Why join us?
Geiger furnishes the modern office with beautiful solutions for private offices, conference rooms, collaborative spaces, and more. Geiger designs play an important role in creating environments where people want to be—spaces that stimulate creative and analytical thinking, strengthen organizational culture, and communicate trust to clients and visitors.
Our purpose is design for the good of humankind. It’s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Geiger means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Geiger to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.
GENERAL PURPOSE
Responsible for leading, managing, and setting strategy for multiple Operations Work Team Leaders and their teams to achieve operational objectives (in such areas as safety, quality, reliability, cost, continuous improvement and employee morale), which align with and promote the achievement of Operations' and the corporation's business strategy. Results are achieved through coaching, leading, and developing Work Team Leaders and their teams. Additional results are achieved through effective planning, organizing, implementation and execution.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
100% Value: Responsible for championing the continuous improvement processes of operations by eliminating the seven forms of waste and creating processes that add 100% value to the customer.
Continuous Improvement: Responsible for championing change by using kaizen as a tool to improve the organization's capability by utilizing people's skill to solve problems proactively and constantly move towards the ideal situation or 'true north'. Responsible for ensuring that teams are engaging in kaizen activities every day to proactively go after problems with a shop floor focus.
Develop and coach work team leaders to be capable of managing and leading in a problem-solving management structure utilizing Facilitators and disciplined continuous improvement thinking.
Development: Responsible for employee selection and training. Also responsible to help employees to develop new skills that will allow them to increase their contribution to the business and improve the processes of the operation.
People Are the Most Important Resource
Professional Challenge/Participation: Responsible for motivating and involving production teams and work team leaders in improving processes through creativity, problem solving and learning. This is accomplished through setting expectations, teaching, encouraging, coaching and holding employees accountable to utilize standardized work. Solicit employees' ideas for improvement
and create a work environment where employees are encouraged to take risks and share their ideas for improvement. Coach work team leaders on effectively using leadership skills to drive improvements.
Pull System: Responsible to create an operation that produces product only to customer demand (takt time) using one-piece-flow. Provide leadership through coaching, providing strategies, and removing barriers for successful implementation.
Quality: Responsibilities include identifying and solving broad problems that impact quality. Ensure performance and accountability to zero defects. Must partner with customer service and corporate quality teams to ensure the identification of quality issues and their root causes, as well as design and implement solutions. Must also manage and monitor compliance to HMI quality plan and
ISO 9000 certification.
Recognition/Feedback: Responsible to show appreciation of those individuals and teams that demonstrate outstanding performance, which is directly aligned with the company's "Things That Matter". Also responsible for providing timely feedback including formal performance reviews, performance coaching, and discipline.
Reliability: Ensure 100% on-time delivery of quality products to the customer by providing strategies and removing obstacles.
Safety: Ensure a safe working environment for all employees and visitors. Responsible for the team's safety program, implementation and commitment to 5-S principles, ensuring all safety training and development is completed for all employees, administration of safety policies and procedures, and compliance with all state and federal legislation. Manage and monitor the achievement of corporate and plant environmental goals.
Shop Floor Focus: Responsible for ensuring that work team leaders spend 80% of their time directly on the shop floor where the key value-added activities take place.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience
Bachelor's degree in manufacturing/operations management or equivalent professional experience required.
Minimum of six years successful supervisory experience required (including leading teams, salaried level employees, multiple departments) in a technical or complex operations environment.
Demonstrated coaching and change management skills.
Previous experience in implementing and coaching lean manufacturing principles and tools in a multi-shift/team environment.
Skills and Abilities
Ability to express ideas effectively (verbally and nonverbal)
Well developed interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrates professionalism
Adept at resolving conflict in a team environment
Demonstrated ability to identify and understand issues and make appropriate decisions
Proficient in ISO quality systems fundamentals and Lean Manufacturing principles
Must be PC and systems literate (Excel, Word, Lotus Notes)
Critical competencies for this position include: integrity and trust, customer orientation, job knowledge, decisiveness, relationship building, effective communication, systemic thinking, future focused, managing and developing talent, flexibility, innovation and business knowledge.
Demonstrated ability to effectively use office automation/communication software and tools currently used in the office environment.
Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodations.
Who We Hire?
Simply put, we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Geiger is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.
MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at careers_help@millerknoll.com.
Why join us?
Geiger furnishes the modern office with beautiful solutions for private offices, conference rooms, collaborative spaces, and more. Geiger designs play an important role in creating environments where people want to be—spaces that stimulate creative and analytical thinking, strengthen organizational culture, and communicate trust to clients and visitors.
Our purpose is design for the good of humankind. It’s the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Geiger means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Geiger to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.
GENERAL PURPOSE
Responsible for leading, managing, and setting strategy for multiple Operations Work Team Leaders and their teams to achieve operational objectives (in such areas as safety, quality, reliability, cost, continuous improvement and employee morale), which align with and promote the achievement of Operations' and the corporation's business strategy. Results are achieved through coaching, leading, and developing Work Team Leaders and their teams. Additional results are achieved through effective planning, organizing, implementation and execution.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
100% Value: Responsible for championing the continuous improvement processes of operations by eliminating the seven forms of waste and creating processes that add 100% value to the customer.
Continuous Improvement: Responsible for championing change by using kaizen as a tool to improve the organization's capability by utilizing people's skill to solve problems proactively and constantly move towards the ideal situation or 'true north'. Responsible for ensuring that teams are engaging in kaizen activities every day to proactively go after problems with a shop floor focus.
Develop and coach work team leaders to be capable of managing and leading in a problem-solving management structure utilizing Facilitators and disciplined continuous improvement thinking.
Development: Responsible for employee selection and training. Also responsible to help employees to develop new skills that will allow them to increase their contribution to the business and improve the processes of the operation.
People Are the Most Important Resource
Professional Challenge/Participation: Responsible for motivating and involving production teams and work team leaders in improving processes through creativity, problem solving and learning. This is accomplished through setting expectations, teaching, encouraging, coaching and holding employees accountable to utilize standardized work. Solicit employees' ideas for improvement
and create a work environment where employees are encouraged to take risks and share their ideas for improvement. Coach work team leaders on effectively using leadership skills to drive improvements.
Pull System: Responsible to create an operation that produces product only to customer demand (takt time) using one-piece-flow. Provide leadership through coaching, providing strategies, and removing barriers for successful implementation.
Quality: Responsibilities include identifying and solving broad problems that impact quality. Ensure performance and accountability to zero defects. Must partner with customer service and corporate quality teams to ensure the identification of quality issues and their root causes, as well as design and implement solutions. Must also manage and monitor compliance to HMI quality plan and
ISO 9000 certification.
Recognition/Feedback: Responsible to show appreciation of those individuals and teams that demonstrate outstanding performance, which is directly aligned with the company's "Things That Matter". Also responsible for providing timely feedback including formal performance reviews, performance coaching, and discipline.
Reliability: Ensure 100% on-time delivery of quality products to the customer by providing strategies and removing obstacles.
Safety: Ensure a safe working environment for all employees and visitors. Responsible for the team's safety program, implementation and commitment to 5-S principles, ensuring all safety training and development is completed for all employees, administration of safety policies and procedures, and compliance with all state and federal legislation. Manage and monitor the achievement of corporate and plant environmental goals.
Shop Floor Focus: Responsible for ensuring that work team leaders spend 80% of their time directly on the shop floor where the key value-added activities take place.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience
Bachelor's degree in manufacturing/operations management or equivalent professional experience required.
Minimum of six years successful supervisory experience required (including leading teams, salaried level employees, multiple departments) in a technical or complex operations environment.
Demonstrated coaching and change management skills.
Previous experience in implementing and coaching lean manufacturing principles and tools in a multi-shift/team environment.
Skills and Abilities
Ability to express ideas effectively (verbally and nonverbal)
Well developed interpersonal and communication skills, demonstrates professionalism
Adept at resolving conflict in a team environment
Demonstrated ability to identify and understand issues and make appropriate decisions
Proficient in ISO quality systems fundamentals and Lean Manufacturing principles
Must be PC and systems literate (Excel, Word, Lotus Notes)
Critical competencies for this position include: integrity and trust, customer orientation, job knowledge, decisiveness, relationship building, effective communication, systemic thinking, future focused, managing and developing talent, flexibility, innovation and business knowledge.
Demonstrated ability to effectively use office automation/communication software and tools currently used in the office environment.
Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with or without accommodations.
Who We Hire?
Simply put, we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Geiger is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We’re committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.
MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at careers_help@millerknoll.com.
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What Georgia Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in manufacturing operations manager jobs across Georgia.
- Bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, operations management, or a related manufacturing field
- Five or more years of progressive leadership experience in a manufacturing or production environment
- Demonstrated proficiency with lean manufacturing methodologies such as Six Sigma or Kaizen
- Experience managing production schedules, budgets, and cross-functional plant teams
- Familiarity with ERP systems and manufacturing execution software used in Georgia facilities
- Strong knowledge of OSHA safety standards and Georgia workplace compliance requirements
Manufacturing Operations Manager Jobs in Georgia: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a manufacturing operations manager in Georgia?
Most manufacturing operations managers in Georgia enter the role through a combination of a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, supply chain, or business and several years of floor-level or supervisory manufacturing experience. Georgia does not require a state-issued license for this role, but employers strongly favor candidates with a Six Sigma Green or Black Belt certification and familiarity with Georgia Technical College System workforce training programs, which align closely with what large in-state manufacturers expect from operations leadership candidates.
How much do manufacturing operations managers make in Georgia?
Manufacturing operations managers in Georgia earn a median of about $127,820 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $75,720 for the lowest 10% to over $194,480 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire manufacturing operations managers in Georgia?
Employers hiring manufacturing operations managers in Georgia right now include Alcon, MillerKnoll, and Saint-Gobain, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Georgia's automotive, aerospace, and food processing sectors drive consistent year-round demand, with large facility footprints creating multiple openings at various leadership levels.
Which Georgia cities have the most manufacturing operations manager jobs?
Atlanta, Austell, and Marietta have the most manufacturing operations manager openings in Georgia. Atlanta's concentration of distribution centers, food processing plants, and industrial headquarters drives the largest share of postings, while Columbus and Savannah draw heavily from Kia Georgia's assembly operations and the Port of Savannah's logistics and manufacturing ecosystem, making those smaller metros genuine hiring hubs for this role.
Are there remote manufacturing operations manager jobs in Georgia?
Yes, but they're rare. About 50% of manufacturing operations manager openings tied to Georgia are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting the hands-on, plant-floor nature of most of these roles. The portions most likely to allow remote or hybrid arrangements are corporate-level operations strategy, multi-site oversight, and continuous improvement planning roles that sit above direct facility management.
How can I get hired as a manufacturing operations manager in Georgia with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving into a production supervisor or shift lead role at a Georgia plant and building upward. Large Georgia manufacturers including those in the automotive supply chain around Tifton and West Point and food processors in the Valdosta corridor regularly hire production associates and team leads without requiring prior management experience. Georgia Quick Start, the state's free workforce training program, partners with these facilities and gives early-career candidates a credential that signals job-readiness to Georgia hiring managers.
Where can I find and apply to manufacturing operations manager jobs in Georgia?
You can find and apply to manufacturing operations manager jobs in Georgia on Migrate Mate, which lists current Georgia openings updated regularly. Search the available roles, find the ones that fit your experience and location, and apply directly to each employer through the listing.
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