General Manager

Description

• Align with Enterprise Goals: Collaborate with ERMCO leadership and peers across facilities, influencing without authority to drive alignment and consistency.
• Drive Accountability: Implement meaningful performance metrics and instill ownership at every level to achieve sustained excellence.
• Operational Leadership: Ensure safe, efficient, and reliable operations across all plant functions while consistently meeting or exceeding production and quality goals.
• Advance Continuous Improvement: Apply Lean, Six Sigma, and other methodologies to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and optimize processes.
• Set Vision and Strategy: Translate ERMCO’s enterprise goals into plant-level strategies that balance cultural transformation with operational performance.
• Build Engagement: Create open communication channels, encourage employee voice, and strengthen pride in individual and team contributions.
• Customer-Centric Mindset: Ensure operational decisions reinforce ERMCO’s role as the customer’s Most Valued Partner (MVP).
• Champion Culture Change: Foster a culture of accountability and collaboration, ensuring employees are engaged, respected, and motivated.
• Develop and Grow Talent: Inspire and mentor employees, build strong teams, and prepare the next generation of leaders.

Requirements

• People-Focused Leadership: Fosters engagement, strengthens retention, and builds high-performing teams. Union experience is highly preferred.
• Operational Acumen: Expertise in manufacturing operations, production planning, quality, safety, and continuous improvement.
• Financial Acumen: Strong experience managing budgets, P&L, and capital investments to deliver sustainable growth.
• Experience: 15+ years in heavy manufacturing, with at least 10 years in senior leadership of manufacturing operations (transformer production a plus).
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, engineering, business, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
• Collaboration and Influence: Ability to work across enterprise teams and drive progress through relationships and influence without authority.
• Strategic Change Agent: Proven success leading cultural transformation and inspiring teams through periods of significant change.
• Process Improvement: Proficiency in Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies to drive operational excellence.
• Resilience and Vision: Confidence in leading within challenging environments, with the vision to shape culture and the steadiness to deliver results.

Benefits

• This is an onsite position in Athens, GA. Relocation assistance is available.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance