Phoenix General Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Position Title: General Manager

Reports To: Regional Director of Operations

Location: Wilton

Overview of Position: The General Manager is responsible for managing assets and personnel onsite to meet the customer’s needs in a safe and efficient manner. Operating in a customer’s mill, the work environment is challenging and high-risk. The successful candidate coordinates daily activities, manages the risks, and maximizes profits. The General Manager reports to the Regional Director.

Primary Responsibilities:

Site Operations:

• Create a safety culture of hazard identification and compliance with standards in the workforce.
• Manage 24/7 operations to achieve high equipment utilization with an optimal headcount to hit production targets while delivering a high degree of service quality,
• Understand the terms of the customer contract and meet with mill personnel as required, and communicate back to upper management and direct reports accordingly.
• Regularly be at the site to oversee operations.
• Develop site personnel and the management team to enhance performance and retain personnel.
• Able to operate heavy machinery such as hot loaders, cranes, pallet carriers, and haul trucks.

Financial:

• Drive profitability to meet corporate targets.
• Maximize opportunities in customer contracts and strive for 100% compliance with the contract.
• Manage and adhere to site budgets, controlling expenses to deliver net profits.
• In conjunction with the divisional AVP Finance, work strategically to provide solutions to profit declines or increases in expenses due to changes in the business.
• Establish and maintain positive relations with vendors and lessors.

Metal Recovery Plant Operations:

• Provide resources and supervision to plant operations to achieve planned up time.
• Review planned material runs to ensure there is a balance between the mill’s needs and outside sales.
• Improve operational management systems, processes, and best practices.
• Examine financial data to analyze the profitability of each product generated by the plant.
• Ensure outputs meet customers’ specifications through frequent testing and inspections

Training:

• Maintain a Training Matrix to ensure personnel are qualified to perform their assigned tasks and to increase their abilities, with structured training, and to perform a wider scope of duties.
• Challenge the staff to become better educated in the execution of business operations, project management, and financial performance through additional training.
• Identify “Train the Trainer” opportunities and execute within budgetary and Program objectives.
• Build programs to enhance the team’s abilities/capabilities. Enlist the assistance of corporate and external training resources.

• Continually evaluate the quality and effectiveness of training program deliverables.
• Perform any other tasks assigned to support and improve the overall team operations

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities Required:

• Teamwork
• Communication
• Time Management
• Problem Solving
• Business and Leadership Acumen
• Project Management
• Organizational Skills
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Business and Financial Principles

Work Environment:

This job operates in both a professional office environment and an industrial environment. This role also leads and directs the workforce in a heavy industrial setting, requiring a strong commitment to safety and adherence to required PPE for the environment and safeguards for environmental concerns.

Physical Demand:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak and listen in potentially noisy indoor and outdoor environments. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk on both flat and uneven surfaces, sit, climb stairs, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms. This job requires the employee to lift at least 50 pounds on a regular basis.

Required Education and Experience:

• Degree in Business, Operations Management, or related field
• Valid Driver’s License
• Proven work experience in Operations or a similar role
• Knowledge of organizational effectiveness and operations management
• Willingness to work in a Steel Mill
• Experience in a manufacturing or industrial setting preferred but not required

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with notice.

AAP/EEO Statement:

Phoenix Global provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Medical insurance
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Paid time off

Compensation and Benefits

Base pay $100,000.00 - $110,000.00

Annual performance bonus target 15%

In addition to competitive pay, we offer a comprehensive benefits package for employees and their families. This includes health care coverage (medical, dental, and vision), a 401(k)-retirement plan, life and disability insurance, paid time off, and paid company holidays.

We also provide a variety of supplemental programs designed to support overall wellbeing and everyday needs, such as optional life insurance for eligible family members, supplemental disability coverage, legal services, identity protection, critical illness, hospital and accident insurance, tuition reimbursement, chronic condition support programs, a 24/7 employee assistance program, and telemedicine services.

This document in no way states nor implies that these are the only responsibilities of, and the duties to be performed by, the employee occupying this position.