Manufacturing Operations Manager

General Manager - Wood Manufacturing Operations

Greater Scranton Area PA

$175000$25000Base Salary Performance Bonus

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to lead and grow a well-established custom wood products manufacturer with a strong reputation loyal customers and significant capacity for growth.

The business has a solid operational foundation but is ready for its next stage. We are looking for a hands-on General Manager who can bring together operations sales finance and people into one accountable high-performing organization.

You will operate as the business leader taking ownership of profitability operational performance commercial growth and team development. This role requires someone equally comfortable reviewing financial results meeting with customers coaching leaders and walking the production floor to remove obstacles and improve execution.

Success will be measured by your ability to build a stronger more profitable and more scalable business.

What Youll Own

Business Leadership

• Lead the business as a single operating unit aligning sales production finance purchasing and administration around shared priorities.

• Develop and execute the strategic growth plan while protecting profitability quality and customer commitments.

• Establish a culture of ownership accountability urgency and continuous improvement.

• Provide executive leadership with clear visibility into business performance opportunities risks and action plans.

Operations & Manufacturing

• Own overall manufacturing performance through the production leadership team.

• Improve throughput labor productivity quality material flow and operational efficiency.

• Eliminate bottlenecks and strengthen production planning to maximize existing capacity.

• Ensure equipment facilities inventory and maintenance support reliable production.

• Build KPI-driven operating rhythms that improve visibility accountability and execution.

Commercial Growth

• Own revenue growth and overall business performance.

• Lead and develop the sales function through pipeline management forecasting customer accountability and market strategy.

• Strengthen relationships with key customers while identifying opportunities to expand business.

• Align sales commitments with manufacturing capacity to ensure profitable reliable execution.

• Evaluate new products markets and business opportunities that support sustainable growth.

Financial Performance

• Own the operational performance behind the P&L.

• Improve profitability through stronger labor utilization cost control pricing discipline inventory management and operational efficiency.

• Partner closely with Finance on budgeting forecasting reporting and business planning.

• Use financial and operational metrics to drive informed business decisions.

Leadership & Culture

• Build and develop a high-performing leadership team.

• Coach managers while holding them accountable for measurable business results.

• Create clear operating rhythms scorecards and follow-up processes.

• Recruit develop and retain strong talent capable of supporting future growth.

• Foster a culture where accountability communication safety quality and execution are non-negotiable.

Success in This Role

Within the first 1218 months you will have:

• Increased profitable revenue while improving plant utilization.

• Improved throughput labor productivity and operational efficiency.

• Built a more predictable sales pipeline and forecasting process.

• Improved visibility into KPIs including revenue margin labor efficiency quality inventory and on-time delivery.

• Developed stronger accountability across sales production and administrative leadership.

• Reduced operational bottlenecks while improving customer delivery performance.

• Strengthened profitability through disciplined operational and financial management.

• Built a leadership culture focused on ownership execution and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience leading a manufacturing business with full operational accountability.

• Demonstrated ownership of business performance including revenue growth profitability and operational execution.

• Experience leading manufacturing operations production planning quality supply chain and customer delivery.

• Experience managing or partnering closely with sales to drive commercial growth.

• Strong financial acumen with experience managing budgets KPIs cost control and P&L performance.

• Proven success improving throughput productivity labor utilization and operational efficiency.

• Experience building teams developing leaders and creating accountability within a manufacturing environment.

• Hands-on leadership style with credibility on the production floor and confidence in the boardroom.

Preferred Experience

• Cabinetry millwork furniture architectural wood products doors windows or other custom wood manufacturing.

• Lean Manufacturing Continuous Improvement or Operational Excellence.

• Founder-led family-owned or entrepreneurial manufacturing businesses.

• Made-to-order or high-mix low-volume manufacturing environments.

Who Will Thrive Here

This role is designed for a business builder.

Someone who enjoys creating structure solving operational problems developing people and growing a manufacturing business.

Someone who naturally moves between the production floor customer meetings financial reviews and strategic planning without losing focus on execution.

If you measure success by building stronger teams improving performance and delivering profitable growth this is an opportunity to make a lasting impact.

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