- The General Manager turns a multi-sector order book into delivery, cash, people and a workshop that can stand a factory assessment.
- The Members will set direction and the GM will take make sure this is adhered to.
Reports to Members / Directors
Direct reports Engineering Manager, Quality Manager, Production Manager, and project / commercial leads as appointed
Scope Company-wide. All sectors, all projects, workshop and site.
Employment Permanent, full time. After-hours cover for breakdowns, outages and client escalations.
- Degree or national diploma in engineering, operations or equivalent, plus a real workshop or multi-project industrial background.
- Pr Eng / Pr Tech Eng, MBA or equivalent operations qualification.
- P&L ownership in a repair, OEM-support or multi-contract engineering business.
- Ten years in industrial / engineering operations, of which five are running people, plant and money not only a single project.
- Evidence of delivery across more than one sector. A one-plant career will struggle here.
- Comfortable with NEC / FIDIC / client-works-instruction environments, factory assessments and tender personnel evidence.
- Valid driver's licence. Prepared to travel to sites, plants and partner factories.
Accountabilities
Business and commercial
- Own operational performance across workshop and projects: output, margin, cash, claims, retention and warranty exposure.
- Keep the monthly director pack honest: portfolio status, exceptions, decisions required, invoicing and procurement not a status read-out.
- Protect payment: valid invoices, activity completion, bonds, retention and late-payment follow-up.
- Approve overtime, subcontract and major buy-in against load and cash, not habit.
- Balance power, rail, mining, water, industrial and workshop work so one contract does not starve the others.
- Make sure committed lead times, site dates and outage windows are real before they leave the building.
- Escalate programme, quality or commercial risk early. Informal WhatsApp updates do not replace formal reports.
- Build and hold the structure in this pack. Vacancies, acting arrangements and agency briefs sit with the GM.
- OHS Act accountability for the workshop and for work under YNF control on client sites. Legal appointments current.
- Industrial relations, discipline and a floor culture that survives a walk-through.
- Be the senior face for utilities, mines, rail, municipalities, OEMs and JV partners.
- Do not let YNF be mistaken for an OEM where it is the commercial or delivery lead. Keep partner roles clean.
- Day-to-day operational authority within board-approved limits.
- Hire, discipline and exit in the agreed structure, subject to Member sign-off on executive posts.
- Stop a job that is unsafe, unpaid, or off the approved technical / quality path.