General Manager - for a leading Printing Production Company
- General Manager
- York, PA
A leading Printing Production company is seeking a General Manager who is genuine, talented, and collaborative to join their ever-growing team. Do you have Management and plastics or label manufacturing experience, or enjoy providing leadership, preparation, and resources to help create a high-functioning work environment? If you answered yes to any of these questions, enjoy being part company with a steady path of evolution and are looking to take your career to the next level, then apply now!
Summary:
The General Manager - Will be responsible for overall site plant operations. Drives manufacturing operating policy to realize business strategy. Effectively develops teams that can achieve corporate improvement objectives. Creates a work environment which promotes safety and quality, while adhering to all regulated environmental guidelines. Accountable for all aspects of plant performance and will ensure that objectives are attained in a cost-effective manner that is consistent with quality requirements, ensuring policies and procedures are followed. Drives best practice through the organization and leads the implementation of improvement in safety, quality, delivery, and cost.
The General Manager - should have the following skill set:
- Degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology or Business or equivalent (5 - 10 years manufacturing leadership experience)
- Minimum of 5 - 10 years' experience in Operations/Lean Management, preferably with a printing focus, and with P&L responsibility at the plant level is necessary.
- Experience in being the lead change agent in complex transformational activities.
- Significant experience in implementation of complex Lean principals as they apply to manufacturing operations.
- Proven success designing, implementing, communicating, and meeting KPI goals, including reducing supply chain costs, improving through-put, shortening cycle time, and improving inventory turns.
The General Manager - will:
- Makes and/or approves major operating, business, engineering and operational decisions, as required, to ensure that plant is operating optimally.
- Ensure that strategic operational/business plans are developed and implemented within plant, and analyze and report, on the achievements and/or gaps.
- Holds direct responsibility for managing cost by effective approval expenditures, overtime and effective budget monitoring and monthly variance reporting.
- Manages change by anticipating or responding to developments within the plant
- Managing Customer relationships in a positive and professional manner
- Directly, and through delegation, coordinates activities required to assure optimum safety compliance, field/shop/office efficiency, reliability, and quality in accordance with established contracts, agreements, policies and applicable regulatory laws and procedures
- 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.
- Ensure the correct implementation of all related project instructions; maintaining 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.
- Ensure that project quality and safety requirements are applied in accordance with Company and statutory requirements.
- Prepare, authorize, review progress reports, cost reports, sales reporting, job reporting, business structure, business opportunity and ensure the preparation (by others), of other associated documents ,in accordance with procedures.
- Develop and implement cost saving initiatives to improve operational performance within the plant.
- Holds direct responsibility for managing cost by effective approval expenditures, overtime and effective budget monitoring and monthly variance reporting, OTIF, EBITDA.