General Manager

The Armor Group; Elkhart (IN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Armor Group is seeking a General Manager to oversee Indiana/Michigan manufacturing operations. You will drive profitability, safety, quality, and on-time delivery while leading a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, quality, and shop floor staff.

Responsibilities include planning capacity, budgeting, and developing staff. You will interact with senior leadership to implement policies and ensure ethical purchasing and strong internal controls.

Qualifications

• BS in Engineering or Business preferred.
• 7+ years machining and stamping experience.
• 5+ years management experience in a manufacturing setting.
• Strong communication and time-management skills.
• Familiarity with MS Office applications.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring manufacturing operations are performing and held accountable to meet safety standards, quality expectations and customer demands.
• Managing operations to maintain profitability and on time delivery.
• Managing processes to prevent fraud or abuse of company assets.
• Identifying and eliminating constraints in supply chain, engineering and production.
• Maximizing purchasing power and holding purchasing to the highest ethical standards.
• Establish productivity and margin improvement initiatives.
• Planning for engineering, material, and production resource capacities.
• Reporting on job profitability and operational budgets.
• Overseeing capacity planning for the control of planned outputs.
• Creating best practices within all areas of functional responsibility – Document the process and manage to it.
• Developing a qualified, well-trained and motivated staff – Build the Team– Understand what your team is doing and how they do it.
• Conduct weekly one on one meetings with direct reports.

Skills

P&L management

Manufacturing leadership

Operations optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Machining & stamping knowledge

MS Office

Education

BS in Engineering or Business

Tools

MS Outlook

MS Word

MS Excel

Job description

The General Manager is responsible for the manufacturing activities of the Armor Indiana/Michigan facilities with the objective of maximizing growth and improving efficiencies to decrease production costs while maintaining employee safety. This position has responsibility for approximately 50 employees in Manufacturing Operations, Purchasing, Engineering, Quality, and Safety functions and will have direct profit and loss responsibility. The General Manager ensures proper implementation and execution of company policies, procedures and processes throughout the company.

Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring manufacturing operations are performing and held accountable to meet safety standards, quality expectations and customer demands
• Managing operations to maintain profitability and on time delivery
• Managing processes to prevent fraud or abuse of company assets
• Identifying and eliminating constraints in supply chain, engineering and production.
• Maximizing purchasing power and holding purchasing to the highest ethical standards.
• Establish productivity and margin improvement initiatives
• Planning for engineering, material, and production resource capacities
• Reporting on job profitability and operational budgets
• Overseeing capacity planning for the control of planned outputs
• Creating best practices within all areas of functional responsibility – Document the process and manage to it
• Developing a qualified, well-trained and motivated staff – Build the Team– Understand what your team is doing and how they do it
• Conduct weekly one on one meetings with direct reports
• Additional items as assigned by the COO

PRINCIPAL CONTACTS INSIDE/OUTSIDE THE COMPANY

This position interacts with employees such as the manufacturing supervisors, manufacturing engineers, shop personnel, project managers, production control, the HR Director, Vice President Engineering & Quality, Division Presidents, Corporate President, CFO, COO, and the location at USA-Mason headquarters.

COMPETENCY OR POSITION REQUIREMENTS

• Previous experience in managing P&L is required
• A strong understanding of machining and stamping is required
• Strong Communication skills to communicate effectively with both shop personnel and executives
• Flexibility in scheduling and shifting expectations as priorities change according to customer needs and workflow
• Adept in time management skills
• Familiarity with MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel
• All Armor employees are also expected to demonstrate Armor’s core values of being:
  • Customer-Focused
  • Passionate about Work
  • Solution-Oriented
  • Driven by Integrity
    

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

• BS in Engineering or Business preferred
• 7+ years machining and stamping experience
• 5+ years management experience in a manufacturing setting