General Manager - Plumbing

Trueline

$120K — $150K *
Omaha, NE 68104In-Person
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-10 years of plumbing industry or service-trades management experience
  • Demonstrated leadership skills managing field employees
  • Strong P&L management and operational mindset
  • Proven customer-facing leadership in service operations
  • Ability to make independent decisions and solve problems effectively

Responsibilities

  • Lead day-to-day operations of a 25-person plumbing team
  • Own and enhance revenue, margins, and job profitability
  • Implement accountability across teams for service delivery
  • Coach and develop frontline leaders for performance improvement
  • Oversee project selection, estimating, and pricing to ensure profitability

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan with company contribution
  • Company vehicle provided
  • Paid time off (PTO)
  • Stock match program for employees
Full Job Description
Truline's, a well-backed Omaha-area plumbing company serving residential and commercial customers, is seeking a General Manager - Plumbing Operations to lead the business. This is a true operating-company leadership role for someone who can take ownership of people, revenue, margin, service performance, customer relationships, and culture while building stronger systems and accountability across the organization.

What You'll Do as the General Manager - Plumbing Operations:
  • Lead the day-to-day performance of an approximately 25-person plumbing operation
  • Own revenue, gross margin, labor productivity, job profitability, customer retention, and EBITDA performance
  • Manage service plumbing, small projects, excavation, water-line work, and related operations
  • Establish clear expectations and accountability across field and leadership teams
  • Coach frontline leaders and address underperformance directly
  • Improve employee engagement, communication, and operating discipline
  • Oversee scheduling, resource allocation, field productivity, and service execution
  • Review larger jobs, estimates, pricing, and project selection
  • Help grow recurring service revenue and improve the quality of work pursued
  • Maintain and strengthen relationships with key customers
  • Identify new revenue opportunities and support sales growth
  • Improve estimating discipline and margin protection
  • Manage through KPIs, operational scorecards, financial reporting, and productivity metrics
  • Partner with centralized finance, HR, marketing, and shared-services resources
  • Build stronger systems and processes in an operation that is still developing
  • Make independent decisions and solve problems without escalating every issue
  • Help shape the company's culture, standards, and future growth
  • Build a more scalable operating model as the business matures

Must-Haves as the General Manager - Plumbing Operations:
  • Strong plumbing industry experience or highly transferable service-trades operating experience
  • Significant leadership or management experience
  • Experience managing field employees
  • Strong understanding of service plumbing or closely related field-service operations
  • P&L and operational mindset
  • Strong understanding of gross margin and job profitability
  • Estimating capability
  • Customer-facing and commercial leadership experience
  • Experience generating or growing revenue
  • Comfort managing through KPIs, data, and financial metrics
  • Strong leadership presence
  • Ability to hold people accountable
  • Independent decision-making ability
  • Entrepreneurial mindset
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Ability to operate effectively in an environment that still needs systems and process improvement
  • Comfort taking full ownership of business results

Nice-to-Haves as the General Manager - Plumbing Operations:
  • Prior General Manager experience in plumbing or home services
  • Branch Manager experience
  • Plumbing Operations Manager experience
  • Director-level service operations experience
  • Strong residential service plumbing experience
  • Strong commercial service plumbing experience
  • Excavation or utility experience
  • Water-line replacement experience
  • Sewer experience
  • Master Plumber license
  • Omaha Master Plumber license
  • Experience leading approximately 20-50 employees
  • Experience improving underperforming operations
  • Experience building service revenue
  • Experience with recurring-revenue strategies
  • Experience managing EBITDA
  • Experience working in a multi-location or private-equity-backed service business
  • Experience integrating or professionalizing an acquired company

We Offer:
  • Target base salary of approximately $120,000-$150,000
  • Performance-based upside tied to business results
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • HSA with company contribution
  • Company vehicle
  • PTO
  • Company stock match program
  • Significant operating autonomy
  • Centralized accounting, AP/AR, financial reporting, HR, and marketing support
  • Strategic support from an established parent organization
  • Opportunity to run a local operating company without taking on every administrative burden of ownership
  • Potential long-term path into multi-location or platform leadership
  • Possible future COO-level growth opportunity as the broader skilled-trades platform expands
  • Potential ownership-like upside through performance incentives

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