Job Details
The General Manager oversees our commercial laundry plant, ensuring production, financials, labor, safety, and sales managed for the greatest success.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Directs, manages, and optimizes daily business operations.
- Develops and implements growth strategies.
- Establishes major goals, policies, and procedures to improve functions.
- Responsible for customer revenue and satisfaction.
- Monitors all equipment and workflow to ensure optimized quality and service.
- Oversee vendors and contractor services.
- Establishes operations and functional area systems to collect metrics, analyze productivity and set performance targets in production, transportation, administration, sales/service, accounting, engineering, and HR.
- Analyzes tests, inspections, and problems to resolve and prevent reoccurrence in the future and for continuous improvement.
- Evaluate and approve key investments in equipment, infrastructure, and talent.
- Set and manages budget and annual goals with top management.
- Monitors all equipment is functioning properly and that all safety procedures and policies are followed.
- Safety metrics is to be the highest priority.
- Oversees strict compliance with all safety standards and DOT, HAZMAT, OSHA regulations with regards to training, the wearing of PPE, inventory, and supply management.
- Engage with corporate officers in broad strategic planning, reporting, and current monthly results and other achievements and challenges as needed.
Qualifications and Skills:
- 8 years or more of industry experience, plus proven experience in a leadership role.
- Laundry experience, strongly preferred
- Multilingual highly desirable
- Bachelor s degree required
- Strong leadership skills, analytical ability, proactive, decisive, develops processes for functional areas maximizing safety, financial results, quality, productivity, and community stewardship.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong work ethic, highly independent and goal oriented.
- Possesses strong safety awareness.
- Comprehensive knowledge of business processes and functions, planning and budgeting.
- Familiar with sales, product categories and services, with strong negotiation skills.