Operations Manager

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Looking for a great place to work?  You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.  Come explore Novanta.

• Leading from the front in a hands-on operational environment
• Driving continuous improvement and lean initiatives
• Building strong, accountable, and high-performing teams
• Working on precision products with real-world impact

• Lead, coach, and develop production teams
• Create a high-performance culture focused on accountability and engagement
• Ensure effective staffing, training, and capability building

• Manage daily manufacturing operations in a high-mix, engineered products environment
• Deliver against key metrics across safety, quality, delivery, inventory, productivity, and cost
• Ensure production plans align with capacity, materials, and customer demand

• Drive improvement initiatives using the Novanta Growth System and lean principles
• Improve workflow, reduce waste, and enhance productivity and quality
• Use data and metrics to identify gaps and implement sustainable solutions

• Partner with engineering, supply chain, planning, and quality teams
• Remove operational barriers and improve end-to-end flow
• Support problem-solving across the value chain

• Support material availability and inventory optimisation
• Identify and mitigate operational and supply risks impacting delivery

• Proven experience in operations or manufacturing leadership (typically 7+ years)
• Experience leading teams in high-mix or engineered product environments
• Strong understanding of operational KPIs across quality, delivery, and cost
• Demonstrated success with lean, continuous improvement, or business system frameworks
• A collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across functions
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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