General Manager - Custom Injection Molding MFG

General Manager

Custom Injection Molding | Full Site P&L Ownership | Florence, South Carolina Area

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer
Location: Florence, South Carolina area | On-site, full-time
Site: ~150 employees | ~$25M annual sales | 65,000 sq. ft. production + 50,000 sq. ft. warehouse
Employment: Full-time, direct hire | Relocation assistance available

Our client is an established, professionally managed U.S. custom injection molding company with multiple domestic manufacturing facilities and more than three decades of experience serving OEM customers.

The company currently generates approximately $75 million in annual revenue and has a clear, funded growth plan to reach $125 million and beyond, supported by recent capital investment in additional capacity and expanded manufacturing capabilities.

Capabilities include conventional injection molding, structural foam, gas-assist molding, insert and over-molding, painting and decorating, welding, and full assembly. Facilities are IATF 16949 and ISO 9001:2015 certified, with a deliberately diversified customer base spanning industrial, medical, appliance, filtration, material handling, consumer products, lawn and garden, sports and leisure, defense, and automotive markets.

This is the company's largest manufacturing site, and the General Manager has full ownership of the operation: production, quality, safety, materials, maintenance, shipping, people, and the P&L that ties them together.

Reporting directly to the CEO and serving as a member of the senior leadership team, the General Manager will inherit a plant with real momentum.

This is not a turnaround. The site's two most recent months were its strongest of the year in both sales and product shipped, while past-due backlog has declined approximately 70% from its peak. Delivery performance has stabilized, the leadership bench across process engineering, quality, finishing, and plant finance has been rebuilt over the past two years, and a multimillion-dollar site expansion is underway.

The mandate now is to build on that foundation and scale the operation from approximately $25 million toward $50 million in annual revenue while maintaining operational, financial, quality, and safety discipline.

The General Manager holds full operational and financial accountability for the site.

This leader will establish the operating cadence, own safety and quality performance, drive on-time delivery and margin improvement, develop the plant leadership team, and represent the facility with key customers.

This is a hands-on operating role. The person who succeeds here will be visible on the floor every day, understand the equipment and processes, know the people running them, and use real-time ERP and operating data to run the business rather than waiting for a monthly report.

• Own daily production performance across all shifts, including schedule attainment, on-time delivery, throughput, scrap, downtime, and labor efficiency.

• Drive capacity planning, press utilization, tooling readiness, scheduling, and material flow from receipt through shipment.

• Lead continuous improvement across injection molding, secondary operations, decorating and finishing, and assembly.

• Direct maintenance strategy, preventive maintenance programs, and overall equipment reliability.

• Establish operating rhythms and accountability that translate plant data into action.

• Own the site P&L, including revenue, gross margin, operating income, and cost performance.

• Build and manage the annual operating budget in partnership with the Plant Controller and corporate finance.

• Develop, justify, and defend capital investment requests and ensure approved projects deliver their expected return.

• Use margin, cost, and variance analysis to identify issues and drive corrective action.

• Balance growth, customer requirements, capacity, labor, and capital deployment to improve long-term plant profitability.

• Own site quality performance, including customer PPM, escapes, corrective action closure, and audit results.

• Maintain ISO 9001:2015 and IATF 16949 certification and lead the facility through customer and registrar audits.

• Reinforce disciplined PPAP, APQP, corrective action, and new-program launch processes alongside engineering, quality, and program management.

• Build a culture in which quality is owned by operations rather than delegated to the Quality department.

• Provide visible personal…