General Manager

General Manager Position

We are currently seeking a General Manager for a local manufacturing company in Tipp City, OH. The General Manager will report directly to the Company President. The primary responsibility is to oversee the operations of the Quality, Production, and Maintenance Engineering departments to ensure operations are running smoothly on a daily basis and projects are being kept on schedule and on budget. This is a hands-on role and directly assists with all aspects of daily quality, production, and maintenance as needed.

Assigned responsibilities include :

• Oversee daily production. Communicates constantly with shop manager to ensure daily production goals are being met. Assists shop manager and acts as backup to shop manager if needed.
• Responsible for opening shop every morning, bringing machines on line, ensuring each job is ready to run and quality standards are met prior to production start.
• Manages maintenance. Schedules and performs maintenance activities and updates maintenance logs. Coordinates 3rd party maintenance if needed.
• Manages spare parts orders : Receive order, locate part prints and coordinate quotes, manage order process by obtaining PO from finance dept, receive final part from vendor, inspect and ship all spare parts orders to PECO customer.
• Assist shop manager with interviews, hiring, terminations and employee / temp management.
• Works with 3rd party vendors and machine shops to obtain quotes for new, used, and manufactured machine parts for service and repair.
• Manages new and reconfigured machine projects. Takes part in project from start to finish including managing resources, quality, PPAP, Engineering, Layout, and Assembly.
• Performs PPAP / APQP for new production projects. Collaborates with quality engineers from customer site.
• Performs tooling set ups for multiple production jobs. Maintains and cleans tooling on weekly basis.
• Performs emergency break fix on machines, this may require nights and weekend to bring machine back online, ready for production.
• Manage ISO 9001 : 2015 Quality Management System (QMS) Coordinate annual audits with certification bodies and maintain standards. Manages daily quality checks. Ensures quality standards are being met and maintained at all times. Assists with production quality as needed. Creates and manages quality documents. Works with customer's quality departments to address non-conformances. Mitigates with formal 8D, 5-Why to a corrective action.
• Perform destructive tests on parts daily. Prepare samples by mounting, polishing, and etching to be examined with microscope for weld thickness, weld width. Perform hardness tests. Prepare reports for customers as required.
• If required, willingness to run production jobs to help meet shipping goals in times of need.

Skills needed to perform this job include people skills and a professional attitude. High sense of urgency with an understanding of how to prioritize situations for the best possible outcome for the company and its customers. Responsible, dedicated, and prompt. Knowledge of ISO 9001 QMS and its standards. Technical writing and ability to create quality documents.