General Manager

Professional Search by Kingsley Gate is seeking a seasoned and results-driven General Manager on behalf of our client to lead its Dayton, Ohio campus. This is a President-level leadership opportunity for an established executive ready to own the full site P&L and be accountable for converting operational execution into working capital efficiency, EBITDA growth, and cash.

The General Manager will serve as the senior leader across all a number of plants, directing a cross-functional team of 8–10 direct reports — spanning Operations, Procurement, Quality, Sales, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Finance, and Facilities — and an overall workforce of approximately 150 employees. This leader will function as the de facto President of the Dayton operation, building and upgrading the site management team, driving operational excellence, stewarding strategic customer relationships, and partnering with corporate leadership to advance the company's growth agenda.

Dayton, Ohio

The General Manager's accountability is organized around four interdependent pillars — Working Capital, EBITDA, Cash Flow, and the Operating Foundation — supported by twelve defined areas of ownership.

• Own days sales outstanding, days payable outstanding, and days inventory outstanding targets; conduct monthly working capital reviews with the site finance leader.
• Lead sales, inventory, and operations planning and demand-supply planning; ensure the master schedule is driven by a single, validated demand signal.
• Manage inventory turns, min/max discipline, cycle counts, and excess-and-obsolete reduction.
• Drive supplier on-time delivery performance, n-tier supply chain management, and MRP metric health.
• Ensure on-time invoicing, timely collections, and supplier terms alignment across AR and AP.

• Own the sales pipeline and new-quote opportunities; accountable for winning new customers in partnership with site sales and corporate business development.
• Drive customer diversification with urgency, reducing dependence on any single customer while protecting and growing existing key relationships.
• Drive wallet-share expansion: quote approvals, pricing discipline, and margin pass-through recovery.
• Oversee program launches and new product introduction/first article inspection execution — on-time, on-cost, with clear milestones and named owners.
• Lead an operations-driven continuous improvement pipeline and engineering-led cost-out and value analysis/value engineering initiatives tied directly to P&L impact.
• Improve labor efficiency, overall equipment effectiveness, scrap and rework reduction, and overtime control across all three plants.

• Own the 13-week cash forecast; explain and close variances in a timely and transparent manner.
• Lead monthly P&L and forecast reviews; ensure no month-end surprises for corporate leadership.
• Manage capex with ROI-justified requests, engineering-led execution, and holdback discipline.
• Oversee milestone billing: deposits, progress payments, tooling and NRE, and tariff recoveries.
• Enforce PO discipline and discretionary spend management across the campus.

• Champion a zero-harm safety culture; lead incident review and near-miss reporting and closure.
• Own quality system health, customer scorecards, and cost of poor quality (COPQ) reduction.
• Staff to demand; develop supervisors and build leadership bench strength across all three facilities.
• Drive on-time delivery as a headline commitment; manage past-due backlog burn-down with urgency.
• Maintain site-level ownership of key customer accounts and executive-level…