
Unified Talent Group is partnered with a well known manufacturer seeking an experienced General Manager to lead the overall performance of its Tulsa, OK operation. This senior leadership position will oversee manufacturing, engineering, quality, materials, testing, and human resources while maintaining full accountability for operational and financial results.
The General Manager will also lead the startup and commissioning of a new manufacturing facility, including equipment readiness, staffing, process qualification, production ramp-up, and transition to stable operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and operational leadership across the Tulsa
- Oversee manufacturing, engineering, quality, materials, testing, and human resources
- Maintain full ownership of plant performance, including profit and loss
- Develop and execute operating budgets, forecasts, and capital
- Review financial and operational reports and communicate significant risks, opportunities, and variances to senior leadership.
- Lead the commissioning and production ramp-up of a new manufacturing facility.
- Build, develop, and hold accountable a strong site leadership
- Establish performance standards for safety, quality, cost, productivity, inventory, on-time delivery, customer satisfaction, and supplier
- Implement manufacturing best practices, continuous improvement initiatives, and lean operating principles.
- Oversee capacity planning, production scheduling, labor efficiency, material usage, and resource allocation.
- Develop corrective action plans when operating or financial results do not meet expectations.
- Partner with supply chain, engineering, quality, and manufacturing teams to qualify materials and support new product introductions.
- Maintain effective communication with customers, employees, senior leadership, and internal stakeholders.
- Ensure complex customer requirements are handled with responsiveness, flexibility, and professionalism.
- Develop short- and long-term operating plans that support the organization’s strategic
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- At least 10 years of progressively responsible manufacturing leadership
- Significant plant-operations experience with demonstrated profit and loss accountability.
- Proven success leading organizational change, facility growth, or manufacturing start-up
- Strong knowledge of production management, budgeting, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.
- Experience in a highly regulated manufacturing environment is strongly
- Familiarity with advanced materials and specialized manufacturing processes is helpful but not required.
- Proficiency with ERP systems and Microsoft Excel, Word, and
- Knowledge of production control and purchasing is
- Strong strategic thinking, judgment, integrity, communication, and leadership skills.
- Ability to motivate teams, manage competing priorities, and hold employees accountable in a fast-paced environment.
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Michelle DeWeese brings over two decades of proven success in executive search, with a career defined by building high-performing teams across a wide range of industries. For for the past 15 years, Michelle has specialized in talent acquisition for the manufacturing and distribution sectors. Michelle holds both a Bachelor's degree and an MBA from Michigan State University. Outside of work, she enjoys golfing, playing pickleball, and spending time with her husband, Shawn, and their two Aussiedoodles, Zoe and Harper.
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