Operations Manager - Bloomington, IL 61704

The DH Pace Company is a family-owned and privately held business with annual sales over $1 billion through 60+ offices located across the continental United States. The Company is an industry leader in the distribution, installation, maintenance, and repair of a complete range of commercial, industrial, and residential door, docking and security products. In 2026, DH Pace is celebrating its 100^th anniversary in business.

DH Pace Company, Inc. in Bloomington, IL will hire an Operations Manager. Please apply if you have a passion for operations, project management, sales, and customer service, and are effective at fostering and instilling team building strategies. 

Will directly work with skilled field installers and service techs to ensure existing customer projects are timely scheduled and completed to customer expectations while ensuring the operation realizes an increase in New Construction and Service work revenues for automatic entry doors, manual entry doors, commercial doors, and residential garage doors.

Position Overview:

• Assist with employee/job scheduling and assist with technical/mechanical trouble shooting and problem resolutions.
• Manage day-to-day operations with a high sense of urgency and fast paced culture and ensure staff perform the required daily tasks in their respective areas with utilization of the company’s best practices, policies and procedures.
• Gain full understanding of, and expectations for, operational and sales procedures and processes, customer satisfaction, staff management, profitability of work performed, and return on sales that meet or exceed the annual financial budget/forecast.
• Call on customers for sales opportunities to increase sales revenues and prepare bids and quotes
• Ensure proper pool management, correct routing efficiencies and daily schedules maximize department capacity while providing a high level of customer service
• Effectively manage to ensure positive results on all Length of Service reporting and metrics
• Ensure productive SODD and Ageing meetings happen weekly and are effective
• Assist with hiring, training, and developing employees; improve individual performance of the field force you manage through regular coaching of managers and yearly performance reviews
• Effectively communicate with customers, ensuring the highest quality service has been provided; occasional travel to jobs sites/customers as necessary
• Effectively develop and lead monthly safety meetings, department meetings and financial reviews and achieve financial objectives set forth by senior management team
• Other responsibilities and projects as assigned

Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years’ experience managing field and office personnel, sales, projects, budgets and financials, ordering materials, and interfacing with customers and sales staff.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Work Hours are 7AM – 5PM Monday - Friday with emergency / after-hours call rotation schedule approximately every 4-6 weeks.
• Must be willing and available to Train up to three (3) different times during first 90-days in St. Louis, MO.
• Proficient with Windows based programs and ERP/CRM systems.
• Analytical skills to evaluate operational data, processes, procedures, financial results, survey feedback and other metrics to determine cause/effect relationships with ability to isolate key information and discern the impact of process or procedural changes.
• Possess an ability for technical applications and mechanical systems.
• Good driving record and valid driver’s license required.
• Successful completion of references, employment verifications, background check, and drug screen required in advance of hire.

OFFICE LOCATION / FULL-TIME ONSITE POSITION: 419 Bronco Drive, Bloomington, IL 61704 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)