The best training will be OTJ. You can read various books on lean to help. If you don't have and undergrad degree you will most likely need that to get a foot in the door. If you have a degree find a supervisory position and learn learn learn.

The University of the Cumberlands has a Master Degree program that can be completed in 15 months. www.ucumberlands.edu

training to be a successful Operations Manager starts wherever you are currently. Make the decision to learn all you can about every department at the company you work for now. Ask questions, go in early, work late, volunteer for every hour of o/t you can get. Keep your head down, mouth shut, and ears & eyes open. Be the best for employee you can be, lead by example, take responsibility for your actions, good and mistakes, help the fella or gal next to you that had questions. Work for that company as if you owned it. Do the same for every company you work for. A positive attitude, good work ethic, honesty, and loyalty are your best text books. Good luck to you.

In all reality it takes years of experience working as one of or preferably as many of the operations technicians in whatever industry your specifically working in. The best OPPS managers are the ones that know what it takes to make the company tick from the ground up! I was once told there are 2 types of managers in the world the first are the kind that just graduated college and have never been in his crews shoes before and they stand on top of their crews shoulders and says "look what I can do!" The second kind are the ones that started at the bottom and earned their stripes and respect from the crew by being in their shoes and working in their environment for years and by holding his crew up on his shoulders and says "look what WE can do!"

Doesn't hold true to stay loyal to one company anymore especially when when there outsourcing there higher up jobs instead of finding a candidate in the company that shows leadership.

I started as a laborer, trained to be a framing & sheetrock Carpenter, promoted to a floating forman on multiple job site land development company, did Sales & Marketing, until settling into Operations Coordinator/ Manager. I was given those opportunities because of my work attendance record, first in the morning, last to leave. Had the natural leader ability to work side by side with team members leading by example.

I agree that it takes years of experience. I started as a personal trainer then, I was a training manager. As the training manager, I was exposed to the inner workings of the facility

Only apply for what u want only jobs that will come back are what u want.

Move up the ladder Leave ur job for a better one only way to move up is move out