General Manager

Professional Recruiting Consultants, Inc.; Lake Geneva (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Professional Recruiting Consultants, Inc. seeks a Plant Manager for our Wisconsin facility with cardboard box conversion experience. The ideal candidate has a strong background in corrugator operations and at least 5 years of progressive management, including 3 years in an industry segment role.

Responsibilities include driving profitability, ensuring safety and quality, and leading continuous improvement initiatives while building partnerships with sales and customers to support facility growth.

Qualifications

• Experience managing cardboard box conversion operations.
• Track record of improving productivity and safety.
• Strong leadership and budget management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive plant profitability while meeting safety and quality standards.
• Develop and implement business plans aligned with company goals.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives linked to strategic direction.
• Collaborate with commercial partners to identify growth opportunities and key accounts.
• Oversee production improvements to achieve efficiency and divisional targets.

Skills

Corrugator experience

Box conversion experience

Leadership experience

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