Regional Operations Manager

About the Role We are seeking a Regional Operations Manager, Western Canada to lead safe, reliable, cost-effective, and high-performing operations across all plants within the assigned Western Canada region, with the head office located in Calgary, Alberta. This leadership role is accountable for translating business priorities into disciplined regional execution across production, purchasing, budgeting, health and safety, quality, customer service, and continuous improvement. The successful candidate will bring a strong operations mindset, sound business judgment, and the ability to lead teams, improve performance, and deliver measurable results across multiple facilities. Key accountabilities Operational performance: Deliver regional production, quality, cost, service, and reliability targets through disciplined planning, execution, and follow-up. Regional execution: Translate business objectives into clear operating plans, priorities, performance expectations, and management routines for facility leaders. Financial discipline: Manage budgets, spending, resource allocation, and cost-control initiatives to improve profitability and return on operational investments. People leadership: Lead, coach, and develop facility managers and operations teams to strengthen accountability, capability, engagement, performance, and succession readiness. Continuous improvement: Drive Lean, Six Sigma, and operational excellence initiatives that reduce waste, improve productivity, standardize best practices, and improve facility performance. Supply and customer reliability: Partner with procurement, logistics, technical services, and facility teams to ensure raw material availability, inventory discipline, efficient supply flow, and dependable customer service. Quality and compliance: Ensure quality systems, product standards, testing requirements, health and safety expectations, environmental obligations, and regulatory requirements are consistently met. Cross-functional leadership: Build strong working relationships with engineering, sales, logistics, technical services, finance, human resources, HSE and senior leadership to resolve issues and improve business outcomes. Data-driven decision making: Use operational data, trends, and key performance indicators to identify risks, communicate performance, and recommend corrective action to senior management. Success measures Regional facilities consistently meet or exceed agreed production, service, quality, cost, and reliability targets. Health, safety, environmental, and regulatory expectations are actively managed, with risks identified early and corrective actions completed in a timely manner. Budgets, spending, staffing, inventory, and resource plans are managed with discipline and aligned to business priorities. Facility managers demonstrate stronger ownership, clear performance expectations, improved capability, and consistent follow-through. Continuous improvement…