MetalJobs | March 2024
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Spring and sunshine are just around the corner! We hope your first quarter of the year is wrapping up with accomplished goals and continually renewed vision for the year to come! We are pleased to bring you another newsletter highlighting some of our hottest open opportunities in case you know someone who might be interested. We’ve also handpicked a short list of high-caliber candidates we’ve recently evaluated that are positioned for growth in their career and open to making a change.
Director of Product Management
#2274
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10+ years’ experience in supply chain, logistics management, inventory control, and team management
- Steel distribution industry experience preferred, but not required
- This role will be direct report for everyone in this sales office managing distribution of Stainless & Aluminum products nationally
- Must have experience with strategic planning, vendor management, and sales/inventory forecasting
- Minimal travel on an as needed basis
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Saved $100,000 in year, improved quality, increased productivity
- Reduced 18000 PPM to 10 PPM
- Saved $25,000 in Hand Tooling Costs
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Managed quality for accreditation
- ISO 17025, ISO 13485
- Client communication, proposal, and report writing
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Successfully implemented and managed a new start-up of large manufacturing facility
- Proven results with managing key metrics that provided direct change to overall performance and increased profitability within the operational manufacturing facilities
- Successfully manage capital expenditures and key investment decisions for overall performance that exceed $200M a year
#149844
#VP/ Director of Operations
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Reduced OSHA recordables over a 3-year period from 10 in 2019 to 2 in 2022. Went a total of 472 days without an OSHA when previous high water mark was 150
- Started a safety near-miss and action tracking system that allowed for employee submission of safety fixes. in 3 years, have received over 2,400 submissions and closed out 2,200.
- Saved in excess of $500K through insourcing of work to an underutilized, in-house heat treatment facility.
- Brokered Long Term Agreements with several test labs to decrease overall testing costs at a rate of roughly 5% year over year through both volume agreements and preferred payment terms. Saved roughly $750K in testing costs over 6 year period.
- Gained 30-40% productivity boosts through automation of final dimensional inspection via the use of robots and white light scanning cells. Reduced overall headcount by 40% during the same time frame, saving roughly $450K in labor and fringe cost.
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Executive Vice President
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Executive High–Level, High-Energy, Sales executive with an excellent background in a variety of metal products
- Responsible for over $60+million in revenue
- Excellent facilitator and well respected in the industry combining with both domestic and global relationships
- Has experience in managing entire programs negotiations both on the purchase as well as through the entire sales cycle, with relationships including OEMs, Service Centers, Mills both domestically as well as overseas.
- Extremely knowledgeable in metal products and immediate value to any company.
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Setting Engineering & Maintenance depts on a roadmap to CI/success using lean tools, capex, and reliability engineering initiatives.
- Developed, implemented, and launched Reliability Maintenance programs at multiple manufacturing sites (ROXUL, ESCO Corporation, Tyson Foods, Kohler, Morrison Lamothe) using EAM (asset management software) including SAP, MP2, Infor 7i & Oracle.
- Capex – Planning, Project feasibility, Project design, Cost allocation and commissioning of systems with FAT & SAT documentation
Featured Open Opportunities
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3+ years metals industry sales background required
- Knowledge of aluminum flat rolled products preferred.
- Experience with high volume activity & sales processing
- Detail oriented, high energy, highly organized position
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5+ years carbon steel sales experience
- Proven success managing teams and sales success is a plus
- Familiarity with steel coil processing and/or fabrication required
- Preferred experience of sales in Ohio & Kentucky
- Must have ability to travel throughout the territory as needed
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7-10+ years aluminum sales/trading experience
- Proven success managing accounts and building out a territory on a national basis.
- Must have experience with both sourcing and selling of aluminum products
- Target customer will be selling to other service centers and distributors
- Must have ability to travel throughout region to existing and new customers – remote when not traveling.
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5+ years of metals industry steel sales background required
- Knowledge of carbon flat roll products
- Experience with high level contractual sales
- Proven ability to hunt and develop new business
Manufacturing Engineer – Casting
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Must have a minimum of 3+ years in a Metal Casting Engineering environment.
- Experience Implementing solutions to ensure cast quality is maintained, scrap is minimized
- Create and maintain detailed process documentation (PFMEA, Setup Sheets, Check Sheets), including standard operating procedures (SOPs) and work instructions.
- CAPEX experience for new and existing projects
- Experience supporting quality as well as IATF 16949 requirements.
- Open to relocation / 25% travel could be possible with this opportunity
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Minimum five to ten years of experience in metal sales and sales management
- Knowledge of complex metal processing techniques required.
- Must have proven background in leading & growing successful sales teams with large customer focus
- Proficient understanding and ability to read engineering drawings, blueprints, and technical specifications.
- This role will have the ability to grow into further leadership of the sales organization in due time
Hot Opportunities
For more information on any of the candidates or positions listed above, or to discuss your specific search needs, please contact our Search Consultants:
Joey Golemboski
Vice President
joey@metaljobs.net
502-208-1211
Darren Valentine
Project Director
darren@metaljobs.net
502-208-1206
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