[Hiring] General Manager @Leadec

Role Description

Responsible for the strategy, growth and general performance management of the respective Business Unit.

• Demonstrates the values and business principles of Leadec.
• Works safely always.
• Extensive Experience Managing Large-Scale IFM Operations: Proven ability to oversee integrated facility management across multiple sites, ensuring seamless operational delivery, facility maintenance, and infrastructure management within complex manufacturing environments.
• Strategic Supplier and Vendor Management: Demonstrated success in managing and negotiating large contracts with suppliers and subcontractors for services such as labor, materials, and equipment across several facilities, optimizing costs and ensuring quality standards.
• Multi-Location Operational Leadership: Ability to coordinate and lead operations spanning multiple geographic locations, ensuring consistency in service delivery, safety standards, and operational efficiency.
• Large Purchased Services Budget Management: Experience managing significant budgets related to purchased services, including labor, materials, and subcontracted services, ensuring cost-effective operations across all sites.
• Client Relationship Management within Automotive Manufacturing: Strong background working with automotive clients, with a focus on meeting their specific facility and operational needs and building long-term strategic partnerships.
• Facilities Lifecycle and Maintenance Planning: Expertise in planning and executing preventive and predictive maintenance programs to minimize downtime and extend asset life in a multi-site environment.
• Operational Efficiency and Cost Optimization: Track record of implementing continuous improvement initiatives to reduce costs, improve service levels, and streamline operations across multiple locations.
• Experience with EHS and Regulatory Compliance in Large-Scale Environments: Deep understanding of environmental, health, and safety regulations, with experience ensuring compliance across multiple facilities, especially within manufacturing settings.
• Leadership of Large, Diverse Teams: Proven ability to lead large teams across different locations, fostering a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Financial Acumen in Multi-Location Settings: Ability to analyze and interpret financial data related to multiple facilities, including P&L, budgets, and cost controls, and to develop strategies to meet financial targets.
• Adhering to and supporting all EHS and Quality objectives, in accordance with ISO 14001, 45001 and 9001 respectively.
• All other duties as assigned by Leadec manager.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor of Science Degree in a related field is preferred.
• 10 plus years of progressive management experience.
• Lean manufacturing/Lean Operations experience.
• Must be able to interact with customers and employees at all levels.
• Must have very strong leadership skills, with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must be extremely organized.

Requirements

• Communication Skills - Ability to communicate with all levels of Leadec and customer employees.
• Language Ability - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Customer Service Orientation - Satisfying customers.
• Adaptability - Willingness to deal with unexpected challenges or circumstances.
• Problem Solving - Defines complex problems and brings about viable solutions.
• Leadership - Strives to delegate, balance workloads and achieve consensus; has a flexible yet effective management style.
• Must be highly organized, self-motivated individual who can work independently.
• Must be able to manage multiple tasks and priorities and easily adapt to changing situations.
• Must be computer literate.
• Must have knowledge of financials.
• Ability to read and understand a P&L report and generate supporting summaries and analysis.
• Ability to provide direction and hold a team accountable to meet the desired results.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions in all areas of responsibility including employee relations.

Physical Requirements

• Required to talk and/or hear in an industrial setting (noise level is moderate).
• Frequently required to stand and walk on concrete surfaces for 4 - 12 hours.
• Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; lift; stoop, or crouch.
• Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception and focus adjustment.
• Work is performed in an industrial-manufacturing environment with occasional time spent working on a computer or at a desk.