General Manager - Recycling

About the role

The General Manager is responsible for the overall operations of the Portland facility including plant operations, safety, employee management, business planning, environmental, customer care, EPR, budgeting, forecasting, and P&L accountability.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a strong focus with the primary emphasis geared towards injury recognition and prevention utilizing corporate assistance as well as awareness programs.
• Direct the training and implementation of all required Safety programs.
• Grow safety culture of facility to focus on caring for each employee.
• Initiates plans and processes that minimize costs and effectively utilizes labor, budget, equipment, material, and capital to meet or exceed plant objectives and performance goals while maintaining the highest level of customer satisfaction.
• Implements business strategies and operation plans that support Smurfit Westrock strategic initiatives.
• Collaborates with various functions regularly from Smurfit Westrock corporate in IT, procurement, logistics, legal, accounting, capital planning, and other teams to support corporate initiatives and Portland’s needs.
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives.
• Establishes goals, tracks results, uptime, and quality productivity.
• Coordinates the production of the facility to achieve facility and division goals.
• Supervises the dispatch of raw materials and shipment of finished goods.
• Maintains an effective work force through personnel management.
• Maintains Smurfit Westrock assets to include building, land, equipment, vehicles, and other assets of the company.
• Maintains compliance in all areas including, but not limited to, OSHA, EPA, DOT, EPR, and all local codes.
• Ensures that all Smurfit Westrock values, standards, and customer commitments are upheld within the plant.
• Maintains the security of all company assets and information.
• Ensures all environmental compliance issues are addressed on a timely basis.
• Seeks out and develops new opportunities for increased business.
• Works closely with procurement representatives in developing and maintaining relationships with key accounts.
• Safeguards all customer feedback and ensures all complaints are corrected immediately.
• Builds effective relationships with all departments in the plant to produce strong supplier & customer relationships and a high quality, marketable product.
• Builds effective alliances with other Smurfit Westrock plants to better serve customers those cross multiple plants.
• Provides a vision for the plant strategically linking resources of the facility with its respective markets.
• Fosters employee development through training and other resources.
• Values and seeks contributions from all team members and facilitates regular team meetings.
• Supervises the facility’s managers and supervisors, responsible for all employee training and development.
• Establishes individual and group goals and responsibilities and evaluates work performance for direct reports; reviews and approves performance evaluations for indirect reports.
• Controls costs within budgetary limits to minimize costs and maximize profit.
• Manages capital planning and budgeting for immediate and strategic needs for Portland’s success.
• Reviews and understands annual budget, forecasts, and monthly financial summaries for area.
• Manages assets to include material sourcing-procurement, sales, safety, plant operations, customer service, environmental, and quality.
• Supervises the Operations Manager, Office Manager, Plant Buyer, and indirectly for all plant employees.

Requirements

• College degree preferred with a minimum of five (5) years equivalent related industry experience; at least 5 years prior supervisory experience.
• Ability to present reports at multiple levels of the organization in a professional manner using Excel, PowerPoint, and other Smurfit Westrock software programs.
• Strong leadership skills, independent thinking, strong organizational and planning skills, excellent analytical and problem-solving ability, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong business aptitude or demonstrated aptitude for running a business.

Qualifications

• Must be able to present reports at multiple levels of the organization in a professional manner using Excel, PowerPoint, and other Smurfit Westrock software programs.
• Must be able to develop strong interpersonal relationships with plant employees, management, external vendors, and the community including municipalities etc.

Skills

• Strong leadership skills.
• Independent thinking.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong business aptitude or demonstrated aptitude for running a business.

Benefits

WestRock Company offers a corporate culture based on integrity, respect, accountability, and excellence, comprehensive training with numerous learning and development opportunities, an attractive salary reflecting skills, competencies, and potential, and a career with a global packaging company where Sustainability, Safety and Inclusion are business drivers and foundational elements of the daily work.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in this posting.

Schedule

Details about the schedule are not specified in this posting.