Career Transitions Holdings, LLC is currently seeking an experienced operations executive to serve as President & General Manager of a small, yet highly profitable manufacturing organization in the steel and metal fabrication industry, located in Madison Heights.

SUMMARY: To successfully lead the organization in all aspects of the business manufacturing operation within the tubular steel industry. With the goal of industry growth and value generation for the enterprise and its 30 employees.

RESPONSIBILTIES:

• Promote a respectful, safe, honorable, and hard-working culture.
• Oversee adequate and accurate accounting and financial practices.
• Manages department leaders to ensure the collective meets set goals.
• Responsible for the overall commodity sourcing strategy, mechanisms, and position management to ensure an advantageous placement of the company within the commodity cycles. While simultaneously minimizing and managing the inherent risk of commodities cycles and their volatility.
• Have an understanding of the overall commodity cycles and the defining buy/sell strategies needed within each part of the cycle depending on the macro/micro-economics dynamics.
• Proficiency in inventory control (high volume qty/profiles), management (turn ratio), and strategic use (what to inventory) of such as the core advantage of the business.
• Promote manufacturing of high-volume batch mentality striving to increase efficiency and cost absorption.
• Support preventive-proactive maintenance as a key role of manufacturing practice and plant management. Highly intensive maintenance operation: both time and resources must be allocated religiously.
• Control the quality (properties to meet product requirements but also to increase manufacturing efficiency) of incoming Raw Material through supplier control as well as internal protocols. Possess vast steel knowledge on hot-rolled flat products.
• Lead, and execute major capital investment projects (Capex).
• Develop pricing strategies based on market cycles, geographical location, service, and product mix.
• Communicate strategies, analysis, and results to executives, key stakeholders, and the board of directors.

REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree required with deep operations experience within the steel industry. Servant leadership/management experience. Background in tube mills and/or steel tube products with experience in synchronizing positive strategies under ongoing volatile commodity market cycles. Other experience helpful:

• financial and accounting knowledge.
• and purchasing negotiations.
• sales: Relationship building and bravery attitude while facing competition.
• in various Microsoft Office software. (Excel: Highly Proficient).
• expertise with an ERP system (Epicor a plus).
• of Union Shop environment and dynamics.
• organizational skills with the ability to multitask and prioritize effectively.

The position pays a base salary of around $200k a year with a bonus package equal to 50% of base pay, excellent benefits, with an organization that is highly profitable and doing well.