A Global packaging and labeling company is seeking a General Manager to lead overall site plant operations at their Salt Lake City, Utah location. This position will primarily be responsible for all aspects of plant performance, and will ensure that objectives are attained in a cost-effective manner that is consistent with quality requirements, ensuring policies and procedures are followed while driving best practices.
Responsibilities:
- Approves business, engineering and operational decisions
- Ensure that strategic operational/business plans are developed and implemented within plant, and analyze and report, on the achievements and/or gaps.
- Holds direct responsibility for managing cost by effective approval expenditures, overtime and effective budget monitoring and monthly variance reporting.
- Manages change by anticipating or responding to developments within the plant
- Managing Customer relationships in a positive and professional manner
- Directly coordinates activities required to assure optimum safety compliance, field/shop/office efficiency, reliability, and quality in accordance with established contracts, agreements, policies and applicable regulatory laws and procedures
- Communicate, monitor and control the effective plant expenditure on labor, materials and expenses against issued budgets, ensuring accurate performance and reporting via standard site documentation and tools, and/or written reports to corporate.
- Develop and implement cost saving initiatives to improve operational performance within the plant.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology or Business
- Minimum of 10 years' experience in Operations/Lean Management
- P&L responsibility at the plant level
- Experience in being the lead change agent in complex transformational activities.
- Significant experience in implementation of complex Lean principals as they apply to manufacturing operations.