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operations manager

operations manager noun: a manager who is responsible for the efficiency of business operations, including overseeing training, pay scales, and ensuring that work is performed correctly.

Noun

operations manager (plural operations managers)

  1. A manager who is responsible for the efficiency of business operations, including overseeing training, pay scales, and ensuring that work is performed correctly.
    • In branches that are not large enough to warrant their own operations manager or supervisor, the branch manager may take on this role.2006, Joanna Ledgerwood, Victoria White, Transforming Microfinance Institutions, page 412
    • Every second, on each of the plant’s four floors, I heard a beep – a regular pulse, reminding everyone that nothing is amiss. “We’ve got folks here who joined at 18 and have been here more than 40 years, working only in this building,” said Lisa Dixon, an operations manager.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian
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Synonyms of operations manager

Forms of operations manager

pluraloperations managers

Questions about operations manager

What does operations manager mean?
Operations manager means a manager who is responsible for the efficiency of business operations, including overseeing training, pay scales, and ensuring that work is performed correctly.
What part of speech is operations manager?
Operations manager is a noun.
What is the plural of operations manager?
The plural of operations manager is operations managers.

Words near operations manager in the dictionary

  1. operationisms
  2. operationist
  3. operationistic
  4. operationists
  5. operations
  6. operations manager
  7. operations managers
  8. operations research
  9. operatise
  10. operatised
  11. operatises

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