General Manger-Confidential Jobs

Knoxville, TN manufacturing company is seeking a General Manager to be responsible for overall site operations while driving manufacturing policy to realize business strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Holds direct responsibility for managing cost by effective approval expenditures, overtime, and effective budget monitoring and monthly variance reporting.
• Managing Customer relationships in a positive and professional manner
• Holds direct responsibility for managing cost by effective approval expenditures, overtime, and effective budget monitoring and monthly variance reporting, OTIF, and EBITDA.
• Ensure that strategic operational/business plans are developed and implemented within the plant, and analyze and report, on the achievements and/or gaps.
• Develop and implement cost-saving initiatives to improve operational performance within the plant.
• Ability to analyze and interpret data to make sound, cost-effective judgments
• Ability to "Coach and Mentor" team members by aligning with business needs.
• Communicate, monitor, and control the effective plant expenditure on labor, materials, and expenses against issued budgets, ensuring accurate performance and reporting via standard site documentation and tools, and/or written reports to corporate.
• Makes and/or approves major operating, business, engineering, and operational decisions, as required, to ensure that the plant is operating optimally.
• Prepare, authorize, and review progress reports, cost reports, sales reporting, job reporting, business structure, and business opportunities and ensure the preparation (by others), of other associated documents, in accordance with MCC procedures.
• Ensure the correct implementation of all related project instructions; maintain visibility of project progress against the agreed schedule, liaise and report on all matters of concern relating to the program, viability, safety, environmental, work quality and HR-related performance.

Qualifications:

• Proven success designing, implementing, communicating, and meeting KPI goals, including reducing supply chain costs, improving through-put, shortening cycle time, and improving inventory turns.
• Formal Lean training from an "academy" organization - either through direct consulting experience or via organizations with deep, well-established lean operating systems.
• Experience in being the lead change agent in complex transformational activities.
• Significant experience in the implementation of complex Lean principles as they apply to manufacturing operations.
• Degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology or Business or equivalent (10 years of manufacturing leadership experience)
• A minimum of 10 years experience in Operations/Lean Management, preferably with a printing focus, and with P&L responsibility at the plant level is necessary.

Posted On: Friday, May 5, 2023