General Manager - Packaging Equipment Solutions

Title: General Manager, Equipment Solutions

Location: Blue Ash, Ohio

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As the global leader of premium labels, MCC helps brands stand out in competitive markets and inspire positive consumer experiences. Backed by over a century of printing experience, MCC is focused on the future by developing consumer-driven innovations and sustainable packaging solutions. Working for our team, you can truly make a difference.

The General Manager is responsible for the overall performance of the Equipment Solutions site, including manufacturing operations, engineering, sales, customer delivery and financial results. This leader sets the sales, business and operating strategy for the facility, builds teams that achieve corporate improvement objectives, and creates a work environment that promotes safety and quality while adhering to all regulatory and environmental requirements. The General Manager is accountable for all aspects of site performance and for driving best practice and continuous improvement in safety, quality, delivery and cost.

This role reports directly to the Chief Commercial Officer, Americas, providing high visibility across the organization. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a strong record of operational execution and a prior history of growing a business. The role works in close collaboration with the labels team across the Americas and the RFID group.

MCC is a turnkey partner in packaging, from concept to application. Equipment Solutions is a unique part of that offering: MCC is the only printer and label converter in North America that is also an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) of automation equipment. This allows MCC to provide customers a complete label and packaging solution.

The Equipment Solutions facility is one of a kind within MCC. It manufactures label-making equipment for MCC’s own plants and for MCC’s customers, combining deep label-industry knowledge with engineering and manufacturing expertise.
Equipment Solutions is a fast-growing business with a goal of doubling in size within two years. Delivering that growth will require significant investment to bring more manufacturing in-house, along with added people resources and systems.

Why work at MCC: 

• Compensation: Competitive Compensation & Relocation Assistance
• Generous benefits package including medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance and 401(k)
• Paid Holidays: New Years, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, plus two floating holidays 

Responsibilities: 

• Lead all aspects of site operations, making and approving major operating, business, engineering and operational decisions to ensure the facility performs optimally.
• Develop and implement the strategic operating and business plan for Equipment Solutions Group and analyze and report on achievements and gaps.
• Own the site P&L, managing cost through disciplined approval of expenditures and overtime, budget monitoring and monthly variance reporting, with accountability for OTIF and EBITDA.
• Direct the site leadership team in delivering the facility’s overall operational capacity.
• Build and maintain positive, professional relationships with customers, including MCC plants as internal customers and external equipment customers.
• Ensure safety compliance, shop and office efficiency, equipment reliability and product quality in accordance with contracts, policies and applicable regulations, directly and through delegation.
• Maintain visibility of project and build progress against agreed schedules, and report on matters of concern related to viability, safety, environment, work quality and HR performance. 
• Apply Company and statutory quality and safety requirements to all equipment builds and projects. 
• Lead change by anticipating and responding to developments within the site and across MCC. 
• Develop and implement cost-saving initiatives to improve operational performance, including supply chain costs, throughput, cycle time and inventory turns. 
• Coach and mentor team members, aligning their development with business needs.
• Prepare, authorize and review progress, cost, sales and job reports, and ensure other associated documents are prepared in accordance with MCC procedures. 
• Analyze and interpret data to make sound, cost-effective decisions. 
• Participate in special products and projects and perform other duties as assigned. 
• Lead the plan to double the business within two years, setting priorities and milestones and reporting progress to the CCO, Americas. 
• Own the sales strategy and commercial performance of Equipment Solutions Group, including pipeline development, pricing, quoting and order intake for MCC plants and external customers. 
• Collaborate closely with the labels team across the Americas and the RFID group to align customer opportunities, product development and go-to-market plans. 
• Drive key investments in the business, including bringing more manufacturing in-house and adding people resources and systems. 
• Build industry connections with customers, partners and suppliers to support growth and strengthen MCC’s position in the market. 
• Stay current on emerging technologies, including RFID, and apply them to Equipment Solutions’ products and offerings.

Qualifications: 

• Degree in Engineering, Industrial Technology or Business or equivalent (10 years manufacturing leadership experience)
• Minimum of 7 years of manufacturing operations/Lean leadership experience within a printing or packaging solutions plant, with direct, full plant level P&L responsibility required. 
• Experience in being the lead change agent in complex transformational activities.
• Significant experience in implementation of complex Lean principals as they apply to manufacturing operations.
• Formal Lean training from an "academy" organization - either through direct consulting experience or via organizations with deep, well-established lean operating systems.
• Ability to analyze problems and provide innovative solutions.
• Proven success designing, implementing, communicating, and meeting KPI goals, including reducing supply chain costs, improving through-put, shortening cycle time, and improving inventory turns.
• Expert business knowledge
• Excellent proven communication skills
• Prior history of successfully growing a business.
• Understanding of different label types and industry dynamics, with the ability to build industry connections.
• Understanding of RFID and the ability to be a quick study on new technology.
• Strategic thinker with a track record of strong operational execution.
• Proven leadership experience, with success developing and executing business strategy in a dynamic, fast-changing industry.
• Proven ability to collaborate and partner effectively with other industry players, as well as across internal teams and business units.
• Understanding of where Equipment Solutions Group sits in MCC’s value chain and how it supports MCC’s label and packaging offering.
• Experience leading investment in manufacturing capacity, people and systems.

The physical demands require standing, using hands to finger, feel and touch; reach with arms and hands; talk and hear. This position requires frequent walking. Occasionally employee is required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Must be able to regularly lift or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision requirements are close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.