A leading manufacturer is seeking a proven General Manager, in their Taylor, MI facility, to create and execute strategic business plans, promote a strong safety-focused environment, lead initiatives for commercial success and ongoing plant enhancements, drive innovation in products and market expansion, and build high-performing teams to achieve outstanding financial results and business growth.
Responsibilities:
-Manage regional business to ensure profitability, efficiency and operational excellence
-Understand the financial levers required to maximize profitability
-Full P&L accountability for the business segment
-Utilize creative and strategic agility to recognize and size-up existing and emerging market and product opportunities
-Administer a customer experience to deepen relationships and build sales
-Develop a roadmap for business growth in Canada and the US
-Hire, train, motivate and retain a high performing team
-Instill a high-performance safety culture throughout the region
-Ability to manage in a unionized environment
Qualifications:
-Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering required.
-An MBA/EMBA or related business education from a highly regarded institution, highly preferred.
-7+ years of progressive management/executive experience in a manufacturing or related business, required.
-Industry experience in concrete (or similar) or construction materials manufacturing required.
-Proven track record of leading both labor intensive and/or large product operations and machine-based and automated manufacturing businesses to exceptionally high levels of safety, quality and customer service performance required.
-Sales or marketing management experience or a track record of growing market share, introducing new products preferred.
-Familiarity with the both US and Canadian markets preferred.
-Intermediate to advanced MS Office skills; knowledgeable in ERP (Titan) and production management software platforms, preferred
