General Manager
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Job Location:
Woodinville, WA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 5 - 7
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 PCCs 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
- Bachelors 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
Required Experience:
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