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Chandler Industries, a leading manufacturer of precision machined components, fabrications and complex assemblies, is seeking a General Manager to lead our Montevideo, Minnesota division. This position will be responsible for leading divisional performance, ensuring the profitability, delivery, and quality objectives of the division are met. The General Manager s duties and responsibilities will include: Leadership Develop and execute an operations and manufacturing strategy, for the Montevideo site, to ensure profitable business growth. Work with company strategic planning team to align site strategies, tactics, and objectives to overall company strategies and objectives. Provide leadership to maintain a strong continuous improvement culture, through active employee engagement. Drive a prioritized continuous improvement initiative at the Montevideo site to eliminate waste. Set high standards for Environmental, Health and Safety, by leading by example, manage all aspects of EH&S, its planning, compliance, auditing and control. Ensure the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of materials through all operational aspects (manufacturing, shipping/receiving, and maintenance). Lead and manage a culture of entrepreneurism and a high sense of urgency related to customer responsiveness. Develop employee engagement through collaborative management approach and strong presence on the shop floor. Manage operational performance to meet or exceed established objectives based on company and site strategies to become world class. Collaborate with Finance to establish annual site operational budgets and reforecasts as needed. Manage capacity plan to support existing business and planned growth and overall equipment update plan as needed. Lead by example, where professionalism is the standard, and each team member is empowered and accountable. Team with and support other Chandler sites to develop and optimize customer solutions. Develop a community of problem solvers that leverage critical thinking to improve the customer experience and business results. General Manager Functional Coach and mentor leadership skills of direct reports and next level reports; develop the human resources within the business. Ensure manufacturing output achieves planned shipment and profitability targets with On-time start and OTIF delivery. Drive efficiency, productivity and equipment utilization improvements. Manage meaningful and focused operational KPI s. Effectively manage operating cost to annual budget. Champion all aspects of quality and reduce non-conformances, eliminate the re-work and rationalization/concessions mentality. Develop standardized processes and procedures to support right first time , while optimizing productivity. Work closely with the Director of Procurement to balance inventory and increase inventory turns. Develop a preventive, and predictive, maintenance strategy, to reduce downtime and improve equipment availability. Develop a strong team that collaborates across all functions, and facilities. Lead and support project teams in the delivery of business improvement initiatives. Manage the transition of New Product Development from the development cycle into production and manufacturing. Partner with Business Development in managing customer relationships and commercial matters.