General Manager

General Manager

As a General Manager at Fisher Barton, you will be responsible to provide direct leadership of operations and manufacturing processes at your designated Strategic Business Unit, (SBU), and to build solid relationships with customers, and peers across Fisher Barton.

You will report to the Chief Operations Officer, COO, for Fisher Barton and be a key leader of the Fisher Barton operations team. You will play an essential role in helping build and maintain our “One Fisher Barton” organizational structure.

You will do this by:

• Providing a safe workplace for our team members, which is a core value of Fisher Barton.
• Leading and overseeing daily operations of the Business Unit and becoming a key stakeholder supporting the One Fisher Barton structure.
• Sharing resources, ideas, and personnel with fellow General Managers across Fisher Barton.
• Responsible for creating and achieving Operating and Capital Budgets.
• Responsible for creating and achieving the Revenue and Earnings Budgets.
• Driving a unified Sales, Inventory & Operations Plan using the Fisher Barton process.
• Partner with the sales team to execute the SBU sales strategy as well as to further develop relationships with key customers by having quarterly contact via Team’s and customer visits with the sales team.
• Deliver business results that exceeds our sales and profit targets by collaborating with sales leaders, business development, marketing, and R&D and key account teams
• Contribute to the Marketing process in alignment with sales team
• Ensuring manufacturing performance and quality goals are met.
• Responsible for Manufacturing Engineering and Customer Service at your SBU.
• Proven success designing, implementing, communicating, and meeting KPI goals, including reducing supply chain costs, improving through-put, shortening cycle time, and improving inventory turns.
• Maintaining weekly communications with all S.B.U.
• Implementing company policies and providing leadership that promote customer excellence, a culture of fairness and community involvement – the 3 C’s.
• Providing leadership and building a culture which values each member of the team and encourages retention and career development.
• Responsible for meeting customer requirements, including delivery on time, of the highest quality.
• Managing Cost Improvement, utilizing Lean manufacturing principles and VAVE processes.
• Managing inventory to budgeted levels.
• Support and sponsor Customer Focused Work Teams, empowering and enabling the teams to meet and exceed customer expectations, including managing potential conflicts of interests.
• Preparing business reports for monthly Executive Leadership Team

The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature of the job and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of position responsibilities. Responsibilities and impact may crossover technical fields/functions.

You are the kind of person who:

• Achieves results through the Motivation and Development of your employees.
• Builds Team Spirit and Self Esteem of your employees.
• Behaves consistently in front of production employees, and Corporate Staff.
• Addresses poor performing employees to improve or to seek other opportunities.
• Passionate about customer excellence, a positive culture of fairness and community involvement
• Process driven, ambitious, analytical.
• Passion to drive Continuous Improvement.
• Able to celebrate success, and to create recovery plans for missed goals.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or 10+ years of experience in Operations, Engineering, or Sales selling technical product to OEM’s/or aftermarket customers
• Expert business knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent people leadership skills.
• Excellent change leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Blackbelt, Greenbelt or significant experience in Lean principles as they apply to manufacturing operations.
• MBA or Blackbelt certification preferred.

Travel Required:

• Up to 20% travel to other Fisher Barton locations, trade shows, or customer visits in the US and internationally.

Work Environment:

• Moderate – Loud – from business office to manufacturing shop floor.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Location: 570 Bluemound Road, Waukesha, WI

Benefits Package:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Company Paid Short- & Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Accident and Hospital Indemnity Plans
• Prescription Drug Benefits
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company Match
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Open PTO
• Health Savings Account
• FSA (Health and/or Dependent Flexible Spending Account)
• And more!

Who we are:

At Fisher Barton, we combine years of experience across multiple industries to deliver unparalleled innovation. Our world-class talent understands the behavior of materials and develops leading-edge solutions that meet your unique needs. We’re more than a source for high-quality parts; Fisher Barton is your resource for the highest quality solutions you’ll find—anywhere.

Fisher Barton is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to any status or characteristic protected by law.