General Manager

Position Summary

The General Manager is responsible for directing manufacturing operations at University Swaging and driving operational excellence, strategic growth, and cross-functional leadership across production, safety, engineering, quality, and sales. 

Core Competencies Required for this Position

• Demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others
• Sound cross-functional knowledge and ability to operate with all functions and departments
• P&L ownership and budget management
• Demonstrated capability in lean manufacturing techniques and JIT concepts
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Proven ability to lead/support objectives, targets and goals
• Problem analysis and problem resolution at both a strategic and functional level
• Strong ability to organize and manage multiple priorities

Primary Responsibilities

• Builds, develops, and manages manufacturing leadership team capable of carrying out needed manufacturing strategies and improving employee relations
• Build and develop operations organization, processes and procedures to support strategic direction
• Directs and oversees the operations budget to ensure compliance with organizational expenditure requirements
• Establish operations initiatives for improvement in safety, delivery, quality, cost, and employee relations
• Ensure full compliance with rigorous aerospace quality certifications and industry standards, such as AS9100
• Promote and enforce a strong safety culture, ensuring compliance with all safety protocols and procedures
• Ensure increasing levels of customer and employee satisfaction while improving the efficiencies of daily operations.
• Obtain profit contribution by managing staff, and accomplishing PCC's business objectives
• Ensure daily tracking and adherence to budget, adjusting short term plans to accommodate revenue dynamics
• Warrant specific profit improvement initiatives, both ongoing and new, including raw, WIP and finished inventory reduction, changeover time reduction and scrap/rework elimination
• Execute lean manufacturing initiatives, continuous improvement and corrective action activities
• Lead an implementation of schedule-based production manning model to proactively predict, address and support direct labor requirements
• Drive consistent use of structured problem solving methods, robust data gathering, and analysis tools to support all measurable results
• Develop and consistently apply the Company rules and policies
• Set and facilitate plant wide communication expectations, including daily, weekly and monthly requirements
• Recommends and implements strategic changes in manufacturing and operations strategy to meet the strategic objectives of University Swaging

 Minimum Education or Experience

• 10-15 years of progressive leadership experience in a manufacturing environment with at least 5 years in the aerospace Industry
• 5-7 years supervising salaried managerial and/or technical personnel
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations Management, Engineering, or related field
• Broad knowledge of AS9100, FAA regulations, aerospace specifications, and quality management systems
• Proficiency with ERP systems and MS Office Suite