Warehouse Site Leader - Automotive Parts
About The Position
Lead a GM Customer Care and Aftersales parts distribution center that supports dealers and customers with vehicle parts and post-purchase services. The Warehouse Site Leader oversees a unionized hourly and salaried workforce and is responsible for warehouse operations, budgets, maintenance, labor relations, and compliance. The role drives performance in safety, quality, cost, delivery, and employee engagement through standardized work, lean methods, continuous improvement, technology adoption, and change leadership. The position is onsite at a specific location on a full-time basis. It requires working in a shift-oriented operation and responding to business needs outside standard working hours. Relocation benefits are available to candidates who qualify under company policy. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 8 years of experience in warehouse operations, distribution, logistics, manufacturing, or a related high-volume operating environment.
- Strong knowledge of warehouse, distribution, inventory, material-flow, and transportation processes.
- Experience leading salaried and hourly teams, including workforces represented by a labor union.
- Demonstrated success developing leaders and building high-performing teams.
- Strong background in warehouse management systems and automation.
- Experience managing budgets, staffing, operational metrics, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Ability to work onsite in a shift-oriented operation and respond to business needs outside standard working hours.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Infor warehouse management systems.
- Strong analytical, decision-making, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to deliver results across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and employee engagement.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to influence, motivate, and resolve conflict.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-tech environments and solve complex operational challenges.
- Passion for technology and innovation in warehouse operations.
- Agility and resilience to lead through change and uncertainty.
Responsibilities
- Lead site performance across safety, quality, cost, delivery, employee engagement, earnings before interest and taxes, and revenue targets.
- Direct warehouse activities, including receiving, storage, inventory control, picking, packing, shipping, transportation coordination, and customer delivery.
- Manage unionized hourly and salaried employees, including staffing, workforce planning, timekeeping, overtime, succession planning, talent development, and performance management.
- Establish goals, operating rhythms, performance standards, and action plans aligned with CCA and GM business objectives.
- Manage the annual operating budget, capital budgets, preventive maintenance, and other resources needed to deliver financial targets.
- Improve warehouse productivity, labor utilization, inventory accuracy, order fulfillment, delivery performance, quality, and operating costs.
- Champion technology adoption and innovation, including Infor and warehouse management systems.
- Use data and key performance indicators to identify trends, prioritize resources, and sustain operational improvements.
- Lead responses to operational disruptions, customer-impacting issues, safety concerns, quality issues, and material-flow constraints.
- Ensure compliance with GM policies, safety requirements, environmental standards, collective bargaining agreements, and applicable laws.
- Represent the facility in CCA leadership reviews and support GM dealers, ACDelco customers, accessory customers, and other CCA stakeholders.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Retirement savings plan
- Sickness and accident benefits
- Life insurance
- Paid vacation and holidays
- Tuition assistance programs
- Employee assistance program
- GM vehicle discounts
- Incentive pay based on company performance, job level, and individual performance
- Relocation benefits for candidates who qualify under company policy
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
