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Operations Manager

Enviva
Epes, Alabama
Full Time
Posted April 11, 2026
Biomass Energy
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Job Description

The Operations Manager at Enviva oversees daily plant operations to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable production of sustainable wood bioenergy, leading teams, optimizing processes, and driving continuous improvement initiatives in a manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead day-to-day plant operations to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable production.
  • Develop and implement maintenance methods to reduce downtime and operating costs.
  • Partner with manufacturing teams to meet production targets and quality objectives.
  • Provide technical expertise to improve equipment reliability and increase MTBF.
  • Coordinate training for maintenance, operators, and team leaders.
  • Support TPM pillars to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
  • Manage maintenance processes including 5S, Visual Factory, and spare parts inventories.
  • Implement improvements during equipment changes to reduce breakdowns and perform root cause analysis.
  • Maintain an integrated maintenance master plan aligned with business goals.
  • Coordinate support services for machining, welding, electrical, and contracted services.
  • Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory standards.

Requirements

  • Degree in electrical or mechanical engineering is preferred.
  • Five years of supervisory experience, delivering reliability improvements in a fast changing manufacturing environment.
  • Must have experience managing maintenance teams and supporting autonomous manufacturing teams as they deliver continuous improvements.
  • Must have applied working knowledge of time, condition and predictive based maintenance processes.
  • Must have experience managing Preventative Maintenance (P.M.) practices.
  • Proven track record coaching, mentoring, motivating and managing employees skills development.
  • Demonstrated experience proactively leading and coaching teams to solve problems, utilizing automatic line monitoring and other reliability improvement processes.
  • Experience setting business targets to drive and sustain continuous loss reductions is required.
  • Must be able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees.
  • Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold and noisy industrial environment.
  • Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment.
  • Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing and/or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day.
  • Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery.
  • Willing and able to pull and lift up to 50 lbs.
  • Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
  • This position is not eligible for visa support.

Benefits & Perks

Compensation/salary range (not specified)
Work schedule (not specified)
Work environment perks: outdoor environment, ability to work in hot, humid, cold, and noisy industrial conditions, safety equipment provided
Additional benefits: opportunities for technical training, team leadership development, continuous improvement initiatives, adherence to safety and regulatory standards

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