General Manager

Leadec; Kentucky; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Leadec is seeking an experienced Senior Operations Leader to drive strategy, growth, and performance for the North American Operations business unit. The role requires overseeing large-scale integrated facility management across multiple sites, managing major contracts, and leading diverse teams with a strong safety and cost-conscious mindset.

Travel is substantial (80%), with 20% remote work. The ideal candidate will have Lean operations experience, a history of client relationship success in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive management experience.
• Lean manufacturing/Lean operations experience.
• Strong leadership with excellent oral and written communication.
• Ability to interact with customers and employees at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates Leadec values and business principles.
• Ensures safety as a core operating principle.
• Oversees large-scale IFM operations across multiple sites.
• Manages strategic supplier and vendor relationships and large contracts.
• Leads multi-location operations ensuring consistency and efficiency.
• Controls budgets for purchased services, labor, and subcontracted work.
• Maintains client relationships and develops strategic partnerships in automotive manufacturing.
• Plans maintenance programs to minimize downtime and extend asset life.
• Drives continual improvement to reduce costs and improve service levels.
• Ensures compliance with EHS and ISO 14001/45001/9001 standards.

Skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Communication

Adaptability

Customer service orientation

Financial acumen

P&L analysis

Team management

Education

Bachelor of Science degree (related field)

Job description

Job Type: Travel (80%), Remote/Telecommute (20%)>

Reports to: Vice President of Operations

Department: North American Operations

Position Purpose: Responsible for the strategy, growth and general performance management of the respective Business Unit.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates the values and business principles of Leadec.
• Works safely always.
• Extensive Experience Managing Large-Scale IFM Operations: Proven ability to oversee integrated facility management across multiple sites, ensuring seamless operational delivery, facility maintenance, and infrastructure management within complex manufacturing environments.
• Strategic Supplier and Vendor Management: Demonstrated success in managing and negotiating large contracts with suppliers and subcontractors for services such as labor, materials, and equipment across several facilities, optimizing costs and ensuring quality standards.
• Multi-Location Operational Leadership: Ability to coordinate and lead operations spanning multiple geographic locations, ensuring consistency in service delivery, safety standards, and operational efficiency.
• Large Purchased Services Budget Management: Experience managing significant budgets related to purchased services, including labor, materials, and subcontracted services, ensuring cost-effective operations across all sites.
• Client Relationship Management within Automotive Manufacturing: Strong background working with automotive clients, with a focus on meeting their specific facility and operational needs and building long‑term strategic partnerships.
• Facilities Lifecycle and Maintenance Planning: Expertise in planning and executing preventive and predictive maintenance programs to minimize downtime and extend asset life in a multi‑site environment.
• Operational Efficiency and Cost Optimization: Track record of implementing continuous improvement initiatives to reduce costs, improve service levels, and streamline operations across multiple locations.
• Experience with EHS and Regulatory Compliance in Large-Scale Environments: Deep understanding of environmental, health, and safety regulations, with experience ensuring compliance across multiple facilities, especially within manufacturing settings.
• Leadership of Large, Diverse Teams: Proven ability to lead large teams across different locations, fostering a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Financial Acumen in Multi-Location Settings: Ability to analyze and interpret financial data related to multiple facilities, including P&L, budgets, and cost controls, and to develop strategies to meet financial targets.
• Adhering to and supporting all EHS and Quality objectives, in accordance with ISO 14001, 45001 and 9001 respectively.
• All other duties as assigned by Leadec manager.
• Managing Tasks
• Open Communication
• Self-Management
• Driving Change
• Motivating & Developing People

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Communication Skills - Ability to communicate with all levels of Leadec and customer employees.
• Language Ability -- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Customer Service Orientation- Satisfying customers.
• Adaptability- Willingness to deal with unexpected challenges or circumstances.
• Problem Solving- Defines complex problems and brings about viable solutions.
• Leadership -- Strives to delegate, balance workloads and achieve consensus; has a flexible yet effective management

style.

• Must be highly organized, self-motivated individual who can work independently.
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks and priorities and easily adapt to changing situations.
• Must be computer literate.
• Must have knowledge of financials.
• Ability to read and understand a P&L report and generate supporting summaries and analysis.
• Ability to provide direction and hold a team accountable to meet the desired results.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions in all areas of responsibility

including employee relations.

Position Qualifications:

• A Bachelor of Science Degree in a related field is preferred.
• 10 plus years of progressive management experience.
• Lean manufacturing/Lean Operations experience.
• Must be able to interact with customers and employees at all levels.
• Must have very strong leadership skills, with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must be extremely organized.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the key actions of the job:

• Required to talk and/or hear in an industrial setting (noise level is moderate). Frequently required to stand and walk on concrete surfaces for 4 -12 hours. Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; lift; stoop, or crouch.
• Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception and focus adjustment.
• Work is performed in an industrial-manufacturing environment with occasional time spent working on a computer or at a desk.