Branch Operations Manager – St. Cloud
Full-Time| St. Cloud, MN
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Are you looking for an opportunity to start something new or build your career somewhere rewarding? Then look no further! Central McGowan is now hiring a Branch Operations Manager to join our team in St. Cloud. Central McGowan is a leading, family-owned supplier of gases, supplies, equipment, service and more!
WE INVEST IN YOU!
Our benefits include:
- Competitive Wages
- 401(k) with Employer Match
- Annual Profit sharing
- Work life balance – flexible scheduling options
- Paid Time Off (yes, even on your Birthday!)
- Paid Holidays
- Company Paid Volunteer Opportunities
- Short term disability, term life, and ADD insurance
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Employee rewards and recognition events
- Paid Training
- Employee Referral Program
- Endless career growth and opportunities!
Position Overview
Primary Responsibilities
- Managing staff at all CM Branches, including assisting in the hiring, training, supervising processes. This includes evaluating branch staff members, ensuring adequate staffing levels to meet operational needs.
- Assist in managing inventory levels of hard goods/gases for both in store sales and external distribution functions.
- Involved in establishing and updating processes and procedures to ensure staff perform their job duties.
- Identifying and mitigating operational risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
- Oversees the process of setting inventory level targets to meet customer and sales expectations.
- Drives sales initiatives to achieve branch targets and goals. Developing strategies to expand our customer base and increase market share.
- Plans for future needs and monitors production/manpower levels to ensure continued efficiency.
- Reviews plant/branch/area/product reports and provides executive management with analysis and recommendations for business improvements based on such analysis.
- Performs customer site visits and handles issues that are high impact and/or are elevated for resolution.
- Ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction through effective communication, problem resolutions, and service delivery.
- Handles deliver driver concerns with customer locations on unsafe practices.
- Ensures alignment of area’s priorities with broader organizational initiatives. Sets culture and tone for area of responsibility.
- Involved in setting organization’s timelines and business objectives.
- Interacts frequently with internal and external management concerning projects, operational decisions, scheduling, etc.
- Contributing to the development and implementation of branch-specific strategies and initiatives aligned with company objectives.
Secondary Responsibilities
- Perform additional projects and duties as requested by management.
Qualifications
- High School degree or equivalent.
- Associate or Bachelor’s Degree in business management, preferred.
- 10 years of experience in the industrial gas industry or related managerial experience, preferred.
- Accurate knowledge in all regulatory agencies including, but not limited to, FDA, DOT, LCU, OSHA, and EP.
- Possess in-depth knowledge of cylinder gases and processes of each.
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO –
Central McGowan is a growing, diversified business. We are a leading supplier of gases, dry ice, and state-of-the-art equipment/technology for the manufacturing, welding, medical, and food and beverage industries in the upper Midwest, and a FANUC-authorized integrator of automation/robotic solutions. Our service area spans most of Minnesota and lowa, and areas of North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin with automation implementations across the U.S. and internationally. We’re family owned with local roots and proud of it.
- Founded in 1965 with the merger of McGowan Welding Supply in Little Falls, MN (est. 1947) and Central Welding Supply, a small supplier of equipment and gases in St. Cloud, MN.
- Since 2011, we’ve grown from a 55-person, 2-location welding supply company to a nearly 140-person, 8-location, diversified business we are today.
- In 2015, expanded to include custom automation and robotics, making us one of the only local distributors who is also an integrator.
- In 2019, acquired Jason’s Beverage Carbonation Company, another successful family-owned CO2 distributor in St. Paul, MN, expanding our distribution area to include customers in Minnesota and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa.
- In 2021, acquired Fessler Carbonic Gas Company in Des Moines, IA, expanding our CO2 footprint to all of Iowa; and Metro Welding Supply in Minneapolis, MN to better serve customers the Minneapolis metro area and most recently Preferred Welder Sales out of Mankato expanding our Southern MN footprint.
It’s been through the hard work and ingenuity of dedicated employees that we’ve grown our services and product offerings to where they are today.
If you are looking for an opportunity for future growth/advancement and to be part of a great team, this could be the opportunity for you!
EEOC Statement
Central McGowan is an Equal Opportunity Workplace and an Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.