General Manager

Drive operational excellence at a facility where your leadership makes a measurable impact. At Rockline Industries, we're looking for a seasoned operations leader to oversee our high-performing wet wipe manufacturing plant in Booneville, AR. This is a hands-on, strategic role where your ability to lead teams, optimize processes, and deliver results will be recognized and rewarded.

With over 15 years of commitment to the Booneville community, Rockline Industries also operates four additional facilities across the U.S., a wholly owned subsidiary in Morristown, TN, and maintains an international operations footprint. As one of North America's leading producers of retail and commercial wipes, we're driven by innovation, operational excellence, and a strong sense of both local and global responsibility.

Join us and you will be one of the top manufacturing leaders in the company. You will become a significant influencer in the company because the leadership (financial health and investment of the organization) and culture (family owned, RRITE values, commitment to our communities) are top in the industry; enough said!

Here's how you will make an impact:

• Provide overall leadership for the Booneville Operations, promoting RRITE principals throughout the organization. Set vision and strategic goals/objectives, align resources, and develop people. Establish and support objectives and drive improvement in key performance indicators
• Develop and support a zero-incident safety culture - support the pursuit of zero injuries, zero health risk, and zero environmental impact.
• Promote product quality that meets or exceeds customer expectations. Ensure adherence to global quality and regulatory product quality requirements
• Develop and maintain a continuous improvement culture. Identify, evaluate, and implement manufacturing cost reduction. Support lean manufacturing concepts, tools, and techniques, and high-performance work systems.
• Collaborate with R&D and Sales and Marketing in Business Teams to ensure plant profitability and effective utilization. Support Sales and Operations Planning activities to ensure we have the correct resources to meet manufacturing demands including capital and staffing.
• Recruit, train, and retain human talent to achieve corporate and site strategies. Develop and implement systems to support.
• Foster communication and cooperation with all business units and global company functions (Quality, Procurement, Sales, R&D, CSA's, etc.)
• Establish budgets and maintain ongoing monthly operational expenses. Support annual expense and capital budgeting process.

Required attributes:

• Bachelor's degree and 12 years of manufacturing operations experience in progressive leadership positions; OR Master's degree and 10 years of manufacturing operations experience in progressive leadership positions
• Proficiency in the following areas:




• Financial and capital budgeting and management
• Strategic planning
• Effective relationship management
• Proven leadership
• Organizational design and development
• Lean Manufacturing tools and techniques




• Experience in the following is preferred:




• 3-5 years leadership of high-speed converting

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