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This role is responsible for creating and sustaining a strong safety culture, developing leaders and employees, fostering accountability, and building an engaged, high-performing team. The General Manager provides leadership and oversight for the DEKRA Princeton Process Safety Laboratory, with responsibility for P&L performance, safety, equipment reliability, quality, and profitable growth. The role combines engineering and production-minded leadership with laboratory experience and serves as a visible partner to customers, Sales, Marketing, Consulting, and shared services. This position also serves on the Process Safety North America leadership team. The General Manager translates market demand into executable laboratory capacity by improving local processes, increasing asset reliability and utilization, maintaining accreditations and regulatory compliance, and delivering a consistent customer experience across the Process Safety business.\nLong-term success in this role requires more than operational and technical leadership. This position is responsible for strengthening the site’s culture, developing people and local leaders, and reinforcing an environment where safety, accountability, engagement, and continuous improvement shapes how the organization operates every day.\nAbout DEKRA's Princeton Process Safety Laboratory\nDEKRA's Princeton Process Safety Laboratory utilizes state-of-the-art equipment to help clients around the world understand and manage the risks associated with industrial dusts, powders, gases, vapors, and reactive chemicals. Serving industries such as pharmaceuticals, food, chemical processing, energy, and advanced materials, the laboratory conducts a wide range of process safety tests that support safer facility design, regulatory compliance, and operational excellence. The team work alongside experienced scientists and engineers in a collaborative, hands-on environment, generating critical safety data that helps prevent incidents, protect employees, and improve industrial processes across some of the world's most innovative companies.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nBusiness Leadership and Growth\nOwn the Princeton site P&L, annual operating plan, forecasts, capital priorities, and performance against revenue, margin, and budget commitments.\nLead the site growth plan by connecting market opportunities, pricing, capacity, staffing, and investment decisions; identify risks early and bring practical solutions to senior leadership.\nProvide on-site leadership for daily laboratory operations in partnership with laboratory managers and technical leads, with clear ownership, priorities, and escalation paths.\nEstablish and monitor practical operating metrics, including safety, quality, turnaround time, backlog, sample throughput, capacity, equipment utilization, on-time delivery, and financial performance.\nDrive standard work and continuous improvement across inquiry, test selection, quoting, project setup, scheduling, execution, reporting, invoicing, and collections handoffs.\nAs appropriate, implement digital or AI-enabled improvements that reduce rework, shorten cycle time, improve visibility, and create a consistent customer experience.\nEnsure critical equipment has effective preventive maintenance, repair, reliability, calibration, spare-part, and capital replacement plans; coordinate vendors and global technical resources as needed.\nWork with lab managers to match staffing and skills to demand, identify constraints before they affect delivery, and build scalable laboratory capacity without compromising safety or quality.\nTechnical, Quality, Safety, and Compliance Leadership\nActively contribute to a culture of safety and health by demonstrating accountability, communication, and oversight in the following key areas: Strategic Alignment, Accountability, Performance Monitoring, Reports, Communication & Engagement, Incident Management, and Corrective Actions.\nServe as a credible technical leader for process safety testing and ensure that testing is performed with purpose, sound technical judgment, and clear connection to customer needs.\nMaintain ISO/IEC 17025 and other applicable accreditations and certifications; ensure the laboratory consistently follows approved quality systems, methods, documentation, and review requirements.\nChampion DEKRA safety programs and values and maintaining a psychologically safe operating culture in a hazardous testing environment.\nEnsure compliance with applicable government regulations, site permits, controlled-material requirements, and internal policies.\nPeople and Organizational Leadership\nMaintain a high-performing, collaborative site team with clear roles and responsibilities.\nCoach and develop laboratory managers, technical experts, engineers, technicians, and administrative support; mentor emerging leaders and strengthen succession and technical bench depth.\nCreate consistent communication rhythms, including site updates, cross-functional operating reviews, one-on-ones, and issue escalation before problems become significant.\nLead organizational change with clear, timely communication and operational continuity, including knowledge transfer from experienced leaders and technical experts.\nPromote a One Process Safety culture across Testing, Consulting, Sales, Marketing, and shared services while maintaining clear local accountability for Princeton operations.\nWhat You’ll Bring:\nBachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry, or a related technical field\nMinimum 10 years of progressive experience in process safety testing, laboratory operations, technical services, engineering operations, or a closely related environment, including personnel leadership.\nDemonstrated experience leading operations or laboratories with P&L, budgeting, forecasting, and capital-planning responsibility.\nProven ability to use data and operational metrics to make sound decisions and improve business performance.\nStrong electrical and mechanical knowledge, with demonstrated ability to diagnose equipment failures, identify root causes, and implement practical, effective solutions.\nPractical knowledge of hazardous laboratory operations; experience with combustible dust, chemical reaction hazards, flammability, thermal stability, or related testing is strongly preferred.\nProven ability to improve operational performance using standard work, metrics, Lean or Kaizen methods, capacity planning, and equipment-reliability practices.\nCommercial judgment and experience supporting technical sales, key accounts, proposals, pricing, and business development in a technical-services environment.\nStrong leadership, communication, coaching, and change-management skills; able to translate strategy into clear priorities and dependable execution.\nDemonstrated ability to collaborate across Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Legal, IT, and global technical teams.\nSelf-directed and comfortable balancing customer needs, technical risk, employee development, operational priorities, and financial performance.\nPhysical Considerations:\nAbility to work in a general office and hazardous laboratory environment and to complete extended periods of computer-based work.\nAbility to work flexible hours as needed, lift 25-50 pounds such as luggage or equipment, move with a full range of motion, and quickly evacuate buildings in an emergency.\nMay work around or be exposed to chemicals, chemical fumes, dust, allergens, irritants, controlled substances, pharmaceuticals, loud noise, extreme temperatures, and chemical, electrical, or mechanical hazards.\nTravel Considerations:\nDomestic travel is required, estimated up to 10%; limited international travel may be required.\nWhat You’ll Receive for the Value You Bring:\nCompensation:\nThe base pay for this position ranges from $150,000 annually to $190,000 annually. Actual pay is based on several factors including market location and position-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for the DEKRA North America annual bonus plan.\nBenefits:\nDEKRA North America strives to provide a competitive benefits package to colleagues and promotes physical, emotional, and financial well-being. Colleagues can self-select from our benefits to create a package unique to their needs. These benefits include access to competitive health care and retirement benefits, paid time off, mental health well-being resources, and opportunities to learn and develop. Below is a list of benefits we offer our colleagues:\nHealth & Well-being Benefits:\nHealth care benefits: medical & prescription, dental, vision (including Domestic Partners)\nCritical Illness & Hospital Indemnity supplemental insurance\nCompany Health Savings Account contribution\nFlexible Spending Account for eligible health care and dependent care expenses\nPaid time off such as vacation, sick leave, and floating holidays\nMental and emotional support resources through our Employee Assistance Program\nWellness Program to increase activity and health habits, with ability to earn participation rewards\nPaid Parental Leave\nTravel Assist (Domestic/International)\nFinancial Benefits:\n401(k) plan, with an employer match\nCompany paid Short- & Long-Term Disability benefits\nGroup term life insurance with options to buy-up for self and others\nWorking Advantage - DEKRA’s official corporate discount program\nGrowth and Development Benefits:\nEducation Assistance Program\nStudent Loan Repayment Assistance\nInternal training and development resources to grow your career\nLEAD Forward Leadership Development Program\nAnnual Career Goal Setting and Performance Review cycle participation\nThis list provides an overview of benefits provided for US-based colleagues; the DEKRA North America Employee Benefits Guide outlines plan details and further related eligibility requirements.\nAdditional Position Details:\nReports to: VP, Process Safety Labs and Consulting\nWork Model: On-site with flexible remote work options as operations dictate\nWork Location: DEKRA Process Safety - 113 Campus Dr Princeton, NJ 08540,\nSupervises Others: Yes, 15-25 individuals, with 3 front line managers\nStatus: Full-time, Regular\nFLSA Classification: Exempt \nVisa Sponsorship Eligibility: This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.\nAbout Us:\nAs a global provider of comprehensive services and solutions, we help our customers improve their safety, security, and sustainability outcomes. DEKRA is the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification (TIC) companies offering innovative professional services in the fields of vehicle inspection, expert appraisals, industrial product testing & certification, management system certifications, leadership consulting, and much more. DEKRA is a purpose-driven organization with a deep passion to make the world a safer place on the road, at work, and at home. 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