- Monitoring and analysing the current system of production or provision to check it’s effective, and working out a strategy for improving if necessary.
- Managing day-to-day activities, analysing statistics and reading and writing reports, operations managers play a vital role in any company.
- Liaising with other team members, including interacting with managers of different areas of the organization, presenting findings to stakeholders and higher management as well as training and supervising new employees and tracking and measuring staff performance.
- Planning and controlling change.
- Managing quality assurance programmes.
- Researching new technologies and alternative methods of efficiency.
- Setting and reviewing budgets and managing cost.
- Overseeing inventory, distribution of goods and facility layout.