General Manager

Key People; Lake Geneva (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Key People in Wisconsin is seeking a seasoned operations leader with paper to box conversion experience to drive profitability, safety and quality. You will lead business plans, continuous improvement, and partnerships with sales to identify growth opportunities while ensuring efficient production aligned with divisional objectives.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's in Business or Engineering, 5+ years of progressive management, and 3+ years in an industry segment management role, with strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Engineering.
• 5+ years of progressive management experience, including 3+ years in industry segment management.
• Experience with KPI-driven production, safety and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Drive forward the plant’s profitability and ensure all safety and quality requirements are met
• Develop and implement business plans that align with company goals and overall strategic vision
• Drive and implement continuous improvement initiatives tied to the strategic business direction
• Build partnerships and effectively collaborate with commercial/sales business partners to identify facility growth opportunities, and maintain relationships with key accounts
• Oversee and drive improvements in facility production to meet short-term and long-term divisional objectives to achieve optimum efficiency

Skills

Box-to-Box conversion

Leadership

Project management

Budget management

KPI tracking

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Engineering

Job description

Please read full job description to ensure match before applying:

• Candidate must have box (cardboard) conversion experience w/ corrugator machine experience.
• Candidates that come from the corrugate background with experience only in a sheet plant, pulp plant, or with products such as: (plastics, container board, particleboard, etc) need not apply, MUST HAVE paper to box conversion background.

What you'll be doing:

• Drive forward the plant’s profitability and ensure all safety and quality requirements are met
• Develop and implement business plans that align with company goals and overall strategic vision
• Drive and implement continuous improvement initiatives tied to the strategic business direction
• Build partnerships and effectively collaborate with commercial/sales business partners to identify facility growth opportunities, and maintain relationships with key accounts
• Oversee and drive improvements in facility production to meet short-term and long-term divisional objectives to achieve optimum efficiency

Your Background:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Engineering highly preferred
• 5+ years of progressive management experience, with a minimum of 3 years of experience within industry segment management role.
• Operational oversight, including budget and financial management
• Be able to acclimate and appropriately lead proper goal foundations and the ability to lead by example.
• Background in project management with proven success in KPI's such as: production efficiencies, overhead management, output profitability, and safety & reliability