General Manager - Columbus, OH Columbus OH

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 100th anniversary in business.

DH Pace Company, Inc. will hire a General Manager based in Columbus, OH. Will lead a well-established and growing door business that provides customers with new and replacement doors and/or fixes/repairs existing doors throughout buildings. Commercial door industry management applicants with strong operational experience and product knowledge are highly encouraged to apply.

Leverage your hands-on management experience to effectively assess current operations and when necessary, recommend and implement approved procedural and/or process changes while always fostering and instilling team building strategies, increasing sales and profitability, and continuing to ensure a high level of customer service is maintained. Will oversee existing customer projects and will ensure the operation realizes an increase in revenues for New Construction, Aftermarket, and Service work for all lines of business for DH Pace Company, Inc.

and Capital Door Solutions, a DH Pace Company, Inc.

If you have a passion and talent for developing staff, customer service, forming and fostering relationships, and enjoy driving effective operational changes that positively influence the bottom-line, consider formally applying for this General Manager role.

• Achieve financial objectives by preparing an annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances and initiating corrective actions with full P&L responsibility.
• Make appropriate recommendations for operational and sales procedural/process improvement changes and implement with a goal of increasing customer satisfaction while delivering healthy profit margins and return on sales that meet or exceed the annual financial budget/forecast.
• Leverage operations / process improvement expertise in a consultative manner with personnel to give employees the confidence that they can trust your leadership and any changes they are expected to adopt in their daily work activities, thus becoming the “go to resource” for operational assistance, advice, guidance and career mentoring.
• Assist with employee/job scheduling and assist with technical/mechanical trouble shooting and problem resolutions.
• Perform regular audits and ensure staff perform the required daily tasks in their respective areas with utilization of the company’s best practices, policies and procedures.
• Use division financial reports (daily, weekly, and monthly) and metrics for review and utilization in the management of daily operations.
• Hire, train and develop new employees; improve individual performance through daily coaching, monthly P&L and Scorecard reviews and yearly performance reviews.
• Effectively lead meetings, set performance expectations and hold employees accountable.
• Maintain professional communication in all circumstances with personnel and customers and timely resolve personnel matters and escalated customer concerns.

• Minimum five (5) years’ experience managing personnel, projects, sales and customer service expectations, as well as operational revenues, expenses and reporting in a leadership position. Commercial door industry management applicants with strong operational experience and product knowledge are strongly encouraged to apply. Will also consider service provider industry experience such as HVAC or another construction/building materials business with products that are sold to end users, installed and/or serviced at customer sites.
• Work Hours:
  
  7AM – 5PM Monday - Friday with emergency / after-hours call rotation schedule approximately every 3 weeks.
• Training:
  Must be willing and available during first six-months of employment to train in St. Louis, MO, Bloomington, IL, Kansas City and/or another satellite market of Kansas City, for up to three (3) times; one…