General Manager (Plant Manufacturing Operations)

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The General Manager, Primary Operations is a critical leader within ATI Specialty Rolled Products (SRP), with comprehensive responsibility for the performance, strategic direction, and continuous improvement of the organization’s melting and hot rolling operations. This leader integrates deep technical and metallurgical expertise with world-class operational leadership to ensure the safe, reliable, and cost-effective production of high-purity materials that meet the exacting requirements of aerospace and other demanding specialty markets.

The General Manager will lead with a strong executive presence and a relentless focus on safety, quality, delivery, productivity, and people. This leader will establish and execute an operational strategy that enables profitable growth, strengthens competitive advantage, and consistently delivers exceptional value to customers and shareholders.

The successful candidate will be a visible, values-based leader who creates a culture of accountability, teamwork, innovation, and continuous improvement. Through disciplined execution, thoughtful change leadership, and development of high-performing teams, the General Manager will drive measurable improvements in operational performance while positioning SRP for sustained growth.

Essential Functions

• Lead the end-to-end performance of Primary Operations, including melting and hot rolling, with accountability for safety, quality, reliability, productivity, cost, delivery, inventory, and employee engagement.
• Establish and execute the operational strategy in alignment with SRP and ATI business objectives, ensuring resources, priorities, and investments are focused on the highest-value opportunities.
• Champion a world-class safety culture, ensuring safety is embedded in daily operating discipline, leadership behaviors, decision-making, and accountability at every level of the organization.
• Drive operational excellence and right-first-time quality, establishing rigorous standards and systems that consistently meet or exceed customer requirements, particularly within demanding aerospace and specialty applications.
• Improve delivery performance and manufacturing responsiveness, building the capability and discipline required to support accelerated growth in strategic markets.
• Deliver significant, measurable, and sustainable improvements in productivity, cost, lead time, quality, equipment reliability, inventory, and overall operating performance.
• Lead a culture of continuous improvement, leveraging Lean principles, data-driven problem solving, standard work, process discipline, and best-practice sharing to continuously raise the performance of the organization.
• Strengthen equipment reliability and asset utilization, partnering with maintenance, engineering, technology, and other functions to improve uptime, capacity, process capability, and return on invested capital.
• Partner closely with Commercial, Supply Chain, Technology, Finance, and other functional leaders to optimize the Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process and align demand, capacity, inventory, capital, and operational priorities.
• Build organizational capability and develop talent, creating a strong leadership pipeline and actively coaching leaders to improve individual and team performance.
• Create a culture of accountability and ownership, setting clear expectations, establishing measurable goals, and holding leaders and teams accountable for results.
• Lead organizational change effectively, communicating a compelling vision, engaging employees, and maintaining momentum through periods of significant growth, transformation, or operational change.
• Promote ATI’s values and leadership principles, fostering an environment grounded in safety, integrity, respect, teamwork, innovation, and accountability.