General Manager

Top Quality Recruitment (TQR); Moundridge (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Top Quality Recruitment (TQR) seeks a General Manager to drive continuous improvement and provide analytical data to the executive team regarding plant performance.

The role leads department managers, directs labor usage strategies, and ensures safety and GMP compliance while collaborating with Engineering, Maintenance, and HR on cost control and process improvements.

Qualifications

• Must have leadership experience in manufacturing.
• Bilingual in Spanish and English.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or business management.

Responsibilities

• Drives continuous improvement across the plant and reports analytics to the executive team.
• Directs labor usage strategies to meet production demands and deadlines.
• Manages plant personnel with communication and coaching support.
• Ensures safety, GMP compliance, and policy adherence throughout the plant.
• Collaborates with Engineering, Maintenance, HR, and R&D on cost control and process improvements.
• Oversees budgeting, cost accounting on new products, and annual budgeting process.
• Monitors plant performance and presents findings at production meetings.

Skills

Plant management

Cross-level communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, business management, or similar

Job description

The General Manager will drive continuous improvement across the plant and provide analytical data to the executive team regarding plant performance.

Key Activities

• Collaborates on initiatives and strategies to direct the plant toward growth
• Guides department managers in the development of labor usage strategies to better utilize resources, reacting to changes in production demands and deadlines.
• Manages plant personnel and provides necessary support, communication, and coaching
• Communicates to management and plant personnel Company changes in policies, procedures, and strategies.
• Oversees the development and implementation of companywide policies and procedures
• Ensures personnel adherence to policies, safety standards, and good manufacturing practices.
• Actively supports all continuous improvement efforts throughout the plant.
• Actively monitors and supports all safety projects and efforts throughout the plant
• Consults with corporate offices and plant management team to develop annual operating budget
• Guides management team to ensure plant operates efficiently while meeting or exceeding financial goals.
• Oversees plant profitability, expense management, and reviews detailed labor standards by cost center to support departmental budgeting and the annual budgeting process.
• Actively works with the Human Resources Department in policy development, employee grievances, employee development issues, and employee motivation.
• Works with Engineering and Maintenance departments to develop strategies to reduce production equipment downtime due to equipment failures.
• Actively works with Continuous Improvement, Engineering, and Maintenance
• Manager on equipment process flows, optimization of plant layouts, coordination of shutdowns, and startups due to new production lines and equipment installations.
• Oversees Cost Accounting on new products costing, developing standards, analysis of variances, and annual budget process.
• Utilizes current plant reporting to reduce inefficiencies and waste
• Collaborates with department managers to identify and then recommend process improvements to reduce labor, ingredient, and packaging materials cost.
• Analyzes plant daily/weekly/monthly spending to keep indirect and fixed cost within standards to meet/exceed financial goals
• Analyze plant report data and present findings at scheduled production meetings
• Supports the R&D team in developing new products and processes, supports production runs, costing of labor, and scrap standards for new products.
• Work with department managers and analyze downtime data to develop downtime reduction strategies.

Preferred Skills

• Prior plant management experience highly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with and influence across all levels of employees.

Education and Experience

• Bilingual - Fluency in Spanish and English.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business management, or similar.
• 5+ years of leadership experience within a manufacturing environment required.

We will consider all applications.

Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request.