Position:Access Control PE Portfolio Company CEO
CompanyName:Webster Lock and Hardware
Company’s Website:ww3.websterlock.com
Location:Bronx, NY
Start Date: Immediately
Annual Compensation(Details below)
- Bonus:Up to 30% of salarybased on performance (details below)
- Equity / Profit Sharing Plan
BACKGROUND
We are a low-profile, value-oriented holding vehicle modeled after Berkshire Hathaway. The founders/investment team iscomprisedof value investors from Apollo Global Management (~$80bn private equity group) and Viking Global Investors (~$50bn hedge fund). We have various portfolio companies or ‘platforms’ (also known as rollups, aggregations, or buy-and-builds). Each platform is capitalized with a long-term equity base and has the sole mandate of compounding cash flows for the long term, primarily through M&A. We have a broad mandate and look for opportunities across industries,geographiesand the capital structure, although our primary focus is on rollups.
We are seeking a full-timeGeneral Managertobe the day-to-day operational leader of NYC’s locksmith and access control company (~75 employees, ~40) service vehicles).The General Manager will report to the COO of the Badlands Security Company, a sub-holdcofocused onLocksmith& Access Control businesses.We are building the leading commercial services business in the Northeast through targeted acquisitions and operational excellence.This is ahands-on management role ensuring smooth operations across multiple divisions, managing department heads,buildingandexecuting onKPIs,and executing growth strategies.
SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
An initialpreview of the responsibilities & tasksareas follows (there will be more, but this will give you a general sense of the roles & responsibilities):
- Field Operations & Dispatch
- Own end-to-end field operations across all 5 NYC boroughs; drive technician productivity,utilization, and job throughput (~50 total); oversee dispatch function (4 service managers) – job scheduling, truck deployment, backlog management;identifyandeliminateoperational inefficiencies across service delivery
- Workforce Management
- Manage dispatchers and department heads; own field workforce performance – accountability, discipline, retention; partner with dispatchers on technician hiring and onboarding;build a performance-oriented field culture without disrupting a stable, long-tenured workforce
- Build reporting and dashboards to provide management visibility into job-level profitability, technicianproductivity, and customer performance; Lead migration from legacy field service management platform to modern, cloud-based solution;Identifyand close other operational technology gaps
- Customer & Account Management
- Assume operational responsibility for key customer relationships;Maintainhighest levels of service quality and responsiveness across ~900 property manager and landlordaccounts
- Oversee estimating function – ensure quote accuracy, margin discipline, and pricing consistency; implement pricing governance with clear approval thresholds;identifywhere the business is leaving money on the table
- Own day-to-day vendor relationships across key suppliers; understand and protect preferential purchasing terms
- Drive margin improvement through operational efficiency and capacity expansion; support AR collections process – ensure service managers and field operations enable fast and efficientbilling and collections
- Growth
- Identifyorganic growth opportunities (e.g., capacity, service line expansion, geographic coverage); support platform M&A integration and cross-selling as Badlandsacquiresadditionalbusinesses
IMPORTANT NOTE
At Tucker’s Farm, wehire forattributes and potentialoverspecific experience or formal education.We’relooking for hungry,go-getterindividuals who are excellentproblem solversand have a drive to succeed inoperations. Yourexperiencecould vary widely, and we encourage applications from diversebackgrounds.
KEY ATTRIBUTES WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Hunger and drive to succeed in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to thrive without extensive structure
- Strong project management skills(i.e., superb at to-do-lists, meticulous execution managing multiple workstreamsandcorrespondence withvendors)
- Highly organized, exceptional attention to detail,andsolutions-oriented
YOUR BACKGROUND MIGHT LOOK LIKE
- 10+ years field service operations experience – security, access control, HVAC, facilities, or adjacent tradeservices
- Proventrack recordrunning a field workforce of similar scale and complexity
- Hands-on operator – comfortable in the field, credible with technicians
- Experience with field service management platforms –ServiceTitanfamiliarity a strong plus
- NYC market experience preferred
- PE-backed or high-growth environment experience a plus
- Fluency or workingproficiencyin Spanish preferred but notrequired
COMPENSATION STRUCTURE
- Base salary of $200,000
- Bonus ofup to 30% of salary based on specific performance KPI metrics such as revenue growth, total technician hours,utilization
- Equity / Profit Sharing Plan
- Healthcare / Benefits
- 401k Match
NEXT STEP
- Pleasesubmityour resume and a3-5minutevideo(consisting ofapersonalintroduction and whyyou’dbe a good fit for the job)tohiring@tuckersfarm.comtobe considered.