Summary
Our colleagues client is looking for a General Manager to join our team. As a strategic, hands-on leader within the Operations Team, you will execute on and manage tactical internal projects to maintain and enhance our internal process, tools, and infrastructure while ensuring alignment to long-term strategic plans. You will also guide and shepherd long-term plans and decisions regarding facilities with insight into operational impacts. This role stands at the intersection of engineering, business, and leadership, and brings many skills to bear to ensure technical excellence, financial responsibility, and internal customer satisfaction. This is considered a leading role that will help promote the long-term growth of team members to align with that of the company.
Essential Functions
Primary:
- Works with the Vice President of Operations to generate and execute strategic plans, budgets, and other planning activities for a growing organization
- Provides leadership and direction to:
- Production, including supporting accountability regarding continuous improvement initiatives, support of supply chain engagement and management, etc.
- Operations, including internal and external messaging and communication, branding, infrastructure (e.g., policy) definition, uniformity, and accessibility, etc.
- Ensures resource levels are optimized for maximum operational efficiency
- Reviews, develops, and directs the implementation of policies and strategies in support of continuous improvement
- Ensures companywide communication about company-level operational priorities, including recruiting, business capture, building and facilities updates, capital expenditures, R&D labor planning, etc., and facilitating communication from staff to company leadership
- Leads facilities projects including tracking seating and office moves, keeping facilities (especially common and storage areas) clean and organized, maintenance and repair of key assets, etc.
- Informs and advises the executive leadership team regarding current trends, problems, and activities to facilitate short-, mid-, and long-term strategic plans as well as to improve operational performance
- Creates, manages, and implements key organizational performance metrics
- Participates on various committees, training events, special projects, and focus groups, including activities to maintain current knowledge of developments in the relevant policies and culture of the organization
- Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance
- Reside in Colorado
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering or technical discipline and relevant experience in technical leadership
- A proven capacity to contribute to multidisciplinary engineering projects
- Prior successful experience in a lead operations role
Preferred Education and Experience
- Master's degree in business administration, engineering management, or related field
- Prior experience in an AS9100 environment
- ERP transition experience
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
The ideal candidate must demonstrate:
- An in-depth working knowledge of business management principles, asset management, finance, and budgeting
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and deliver effective professional presentations to a wide range of diverse stakeholders
- The ability to influence and motivate staff-including company leadership-toward accountability for their responsibilities
- The ability to successfully manage a variety of projects, programs, and initiatives
- A capacity to thrive in a self-motivated environment that has few boundaries and at-times conflicting priorities
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills and a hands-on, detail-oriented problem-solving approach
- A desire to find, explore, and solve new and challenging problems