General Manager

In this role you will provide strategic leadership for a corrugated sheet plant in the Milwaukee area, overseeing overall performance, profitability, safety, quality, and customer satisfaction. You will drive short- and long-term strategies to align plant results with broader company goals and lead cross-functional teams to improve throughput, efficiency, and cost. The position offers the chance to shape operational excellence and support commercial growth in a manufacturing-focused organization. You will cultivate a high-performance culture and partner with sales to meet customer expectations.

• Provide strategic direction and leadership for the manufacturing facility to meet operational, financial, safety, quality, and customer service goals
• Oversee profitability and financial performance including P&L, Budgets, capital expenditures, and cost controls
• Develop and execute short- and long-term business strategies aligned with organizational objectives
• Improve productivity, throughput, efficiency, quality, waste reduction, downtime, and cost performance
• Drive safety culture and maintain safety, environmental, and quality standards
• Lead, coach, and develop plant leadership and operations teams to create accountability and high performance
• Identify operational improvement opportunities and implement continuous improvement initiatives
• Collaborate with sales and commercial leadership to drive local/regional growth and align with customer needs
• Cross-functional collaboration with operations, production, sales, logistics, safety, quality, maintenance, and other functions to boost performance
• Analyze performance data and financial metrics to identify trends and implement corrective actions
• Support capital planning and identify investments to enhance capacity, productivity, reliability, or profitability
• Lead organizational change and ensure understanding of business objectives across levels of the plant

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• 7+ years of progressive leadership in manufacturing
• Minimum 5 years in operations/production management
• Experience in the corrugated packaging industry and corrugator operations
• Sheet plant experience preferred
• Experience managing plant financials (P&L, budgets, capital)
• Proven ability to lead large/diverse manufacturing teams
• Track record of improving safety, quality, productivity, cost, and profitability
• Strong continuous improvement knowledge and ability to drive initiatives
• Ability to develop strategic plans and translate them into measurable results
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent leadership and communication abilities
• Ability to collaborate with commercial teams and maintain customer focus
• Experience leading change while maintaining employee engagement

• leadership
• communication
• collaboration
• corrugator operations
• sheet production process
• scheduling