The Operations Management Officer, normally referred to as "Ops", is responsible for the coordination and scheduling of resources and hardware to the various missions being performed aboard a starship. The Ops panel on the bridge displays a continually updated list of all current major shipboard activities.

This information is used to evaluate the current state of the ship's activities, so priority decisions can be made. For example, if a science department is using a sensor array and an alert situation arises, the Ops will have to divert the science scan from the main sensor array to another available system.