General Manager

Key Responsibilities Business & Operational Leadership

• Own overall site performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, inventory, employee engagement, and customer commitments.
• Lead daily, weekly, and monthly operating rhythms to ensure visibility to performance, timely issue escalation, and disciplined follow-through on corrective actions.
• Ensure standardization, consistency, and effective use of operating systems, management routines, and performance review processes across assigned site(s).
• Drive operational discipline, execution excellence, and accountability through clear priorities, measurable goals, and consistent leader standard work.
• Identify operational risks, capacity constraints, resource gaps, and performance trends; develop proactive mitigation plans to protect customer delivery and business results.

• Translate enterprise strategy into actionable site-level plans, priorities, KPIs, and communication rhythms that align leaders and employees around business goals.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that improve efficiency, yield, quality systems, flow, labor productivity, and overall operating performance.
• Support scaling efforts through process discipline, operational readiness, workforce planning, technology adoption, and effective change management.
• Partner with enterprise leaders to prioritize investments, capabilities, and resources required to meet current and future business needs.
• Communicate strategy, performance expectations, and progress in a clear, consistent way that builds alignment and accountability across the site.

• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing cross-functional leadership team capable of delivering results through others.
• Set clear expectations for performance, behavior, communication, and accountability; ensure leaders consistently model company values and leadership standards.
• Strengthen employee engagement, retention, and workforce capability through effective communication, development planning, succession planning, and talent review practices.
• Ensure a strong safety-first, quality-driven culture where employees understand expectations, risks are addressed promptly, and accountability is visible at all levels.
• Lead through change with transparency, resilience, and practical problem solving, helping teams adapt while maintaining performance and customer focus.

• Partner with commercial, engineering, quality, finance, IT, HR, supply chain, and other functional leaders to ensure priorities, resources, timelines, and execution plans are aligned.
• Resolve cross-functional challenges that impact delivery, quality, cost, employee effectiveness, or customer commitments.
• Ensure alignment between site operations and enterprise priorities by proactively communicating risks, tradeoffs, opportunities, and resource needs.
• Facilitate effective decision-making across functions by clarifying ownership, escalating barriers appropriately, and ensuring actions are tracked to completion.

• Manage site budget, cost controls, labor planning, capital needs, margin improvement initiatives, and financial performance against plan.
• Monitor key performance metrics, financial trends, and operating variances; ensure timely root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Partner with finance to develop forecasts, evaluate business cases, manage tradeoffs, and improve profitability while maintaining safety, quality, and customer commitments.
• Promote cost-conscious decision-making and operational efficiency without compromising compliance, employee safety, product quality, or long-term capability.

• Execution Excellence:
  Delivers consistent, repeatable results through disciplined operating systems, clear ownership, and strong follow-through.
• Enterprise Mindset:
  Balances site needs with broader company priorities and makes decisions that support sustainable growth.
• Functional Integration:
  Builds alignment across functions, removes barriers, and ensures teams work together to deliver business outcomes.
• People Leadership:
  Develops managers and frontline leaders, creates…