General Manager

Overview

The General Manager (GM) for Goldbelt Transportation is responsible for improving efficiency and increasing profits while managing the company's overall operations for sustainable operations and execution. The General Manager will identify and develop plans of action, including long-range marketing and business plans.

Qualifications

Necessary Skills & Knowledge:

• Building Effective with high morale and spirit; encouraging open dialog works among teams with informal authority and across business units.
• Directing Others with planning, organizing, and managing workload appropriately by communicating clearly upward, downward, and laterally throughout the organization.
• Recognized Strategic Acumen and Agility to create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Demonstrated Process Management ability to simplify complex processes and methodically organize people, resources, and activities to implement solutions while mitigating risk.
• Problem Solving ability to identify the root causes of complex problems and systematically review circumstances employing relevant standards and prior experience in order to develop and evaluate the best options.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills to interact with shareholders, peers, management, and the general public.
• Ability to establish and manage high work standards by managing a variety of tasks, handle pressure and conflicting priorities.
• Skill in operating personal computer utilizing a variety of computer software.
• Skill in establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with other employees.
• Ability to work directly with the public, providing information and assistance on a daily basis.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Marketing, Hospitality Management, or closely related discipline or equivalent experience. 
• Five (5) years of combined mid- and senior-level managerial, operational, and planning experience (senior level experience must include P&L responsibility and demonstrated competence with strategic planning, budgeting, financial and accounting systems, and HR management).
• Ability to successfully pass a background check.
• Any equivalent combination of experience, training, and/or education.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to obtain a 100 Ton Captain’s license.

Responsibilities

Job Duties:

• Manages the operation and administration in line with policies, long range plans, and strategies. Establishes operating plans, budgets, and programs to meet business objectives.
• Provides executive direction to the organization and its staff in achievement of profit and growth objectives set by the Corporate President/CEO, Corporate VP of Alaska Group.
• Administers all aspects of company operations directly, including development of corporate procedures related to personnel management, property management, financial performance, and business expansion. Monitors performance against business plans and reports progress to the Corporate Senior Management team.
• Manage meetings and interactions for all of the working projects and initiatives across the company.
• Maintain a complete roster of travel across the company. This includes tracking who is traveling where, why, and the management of after-action reporting functions.
• Oversight includes establishing communications, ethics, and resources (as implemented by Human Resources).
• Manages personnel development by overseeing employee Self Mastery, including functional training to ensure there are clear and attainable goals and performance metrics.
• Performs other incidental and related duties as required and assigned.
• Filling in as Captain as needed, which consists of being responsible for the operation and maintenance of a passenger vessel.
• Other duties assigned as needed.