Senior GM, Melting & Rolling Operations

Atimaterials; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

ATI Specialty Rolled Products is seeking a General Manager, Primary Operations to lead melting and hot rolling operations with a relentless focus on safety, quality, and productivity. You will shape strategy, drive continuous improvement, and build a high‑performing leadership team to deliver sustained growth and shareholder value.

The role requires a strong track record in metallurgical melting, operations leadership, and change management within complex manufacturing environments, with a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
• 10 years of technical metallurgical melting experience.
• Broad operations management experience in a complex best‑in‑class manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Primary Operations, including melting and hot rolling, with accountability for safety, quality, reliability, productivity, cost, delivery, inventory, and employee engagement.
• Establish and execute the operational strategy in alignment with SRP and ATI business objectives, ensuring resources, priorities, and investments are focused on the highest-value opportunities.
• Champion a world‑class safety culture, ensuring safety is embedded in daily operating discipline, leadership behaviors, decision‑making, and accountability at every level of the organization.
• Drive operational excellence and right-first-time quality, establishing rigorous standards and systems that consistently meet or exceed customer requirements, particularly within demanding aerospace and specialty applications.
• Improve delivery performance and manufacturing responsiveness, building the capability and discipline required to support accelerated growth in strategic markets.
• Deliver significant, measurable, and sustainable improvements in productivity, cost, lead time, quality, equipment reliability, inventory, and overall operating performance.
• Lead a culture of continuous improvement, leveraging Lean principles, data‑driven problem solving, standard work, process discipline, and best‑practice sharing to continuously raise the performance of the organization.
• Strengthen equipment reliability and asset utilization, partnering with maintenance, engineering, technology, and other functions to improve uptime, capacity, process capability, and return on invested capital.
• Partner closely with Commercial, Supply Chain, Technology, Finance, and other functional leaders to optimize the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and align demand, capacity, inventory, capital, and operational priorities.
• Build organizational capability and develop talent, creating a strong leadership pipeline and actively coaching leaders to improve individual and team performance.
• Create a culture of accountability and ownership, setting clear expectations, establishing measurable goals, and holding leaders and teams accountable for results.
• Lead organizational change effectively, communicating a compelling vision, engaging employees and maintaining momentum through periods of significant growth, transformation or operational change.
• Promote ATI’s values and leadership principles, fostering an environment grounded in safety, integrity, respect, teamwork, innovation, and accountability.

Skills

Safety leadership

Continuous improvement

Cross-functional leadership

Business acumen

Change management

Coaching & development

Project management

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder influence

Operational excellence

Education

Engineering degree

Job description

ATI Specialty Rolled Products is seeking a General Manager, Primary Operations to lead melting and hot rolling operations with a relentless focus on safety, quality, and productivity. You will shape strategy, drive continuous improvement, and build a high‑performing leadership team to deliver sustained growth and shareholder value.

The role requires a strong track record in metallurgical melting, operations leadership, and change management within complex manufacturing environments, with a