Warehouse Site Leader

General Motors • Swartz Creek, MI

5d • Onsite

About The Position

General Motors is seeking a Site Leader (Plant Manager) for its Flint, Michigan Customer Care and Aftersales operation. This complex site combines sheet-metal processing, paint operations, warehousing, dealer-direct activity, and redistribution/carload work. The role leads a large, cross-functional workforce and partners with labor and business stakeholders to deliver safety, environmental, quality, service, cost, and employee-engagement results in a fast-paced, shift-based operation.

The Site Leader has full ownership of site performance and provides strategic and operational direction across the operation. The role leads approximately 350 employees and develops a high-performance culture among 31 salaried team members through accountability, inclusion, engagement, feedback, and visible operating-floor leadership. It also oversees paint-process controls and environmental stewardship, including wastewater treatment and paint-related chemical and waste streams.

The leader uses operating data and KPIs to improve performance, sets goals and operating rhythms aligned with CCA and GM objectives, and ensures compliance with company policies, safety and environmental requirements, collective bargaining agreements, and applicable laws. The role manages staffing, workforce planning, timekeeping, overtime, succession planning, talent development, performance management, preventive maintenance, and capital priorities; responds to operational disruptions and customer, safety, quality, material-flow, and environmental issues; and represents the facility in CCA leadership reviews. The position is onsite in Flint, MI, on a full-time basis. Relocation benefits may be available to candidates who qualify under company policy. GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 10 years of progressive leadership experience in manufacturing, processing, warehousing, distribution, logistics, or another high-volume operating environment.
• Proven track record delivering results across safety, environmental compliance, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and employee engagement.
• Experience leading complex operations involving manufacturing or processing, paint or chemical controls, warehousing, material flow, transportation, or customer fulfillment.
• Experience leading salaried and hourly teams and partnering with unions or represented workforces.
• Experience developing leaders, building high-performing teams, and leading change and transformation.
• Experience managing budgets, staffing, maintenance, capital priorities, operational metrics, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Skill in using data and KPIs to identify trends, prioritize resources, and sustain improvements.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, communication, conflict-resolution, and problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to work onsite in a shift-oriented operation and respond outside standard working hours, including extended hours, weekends, holidays, and urgent operational or environmental situations.
• Must not require GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree or relevant certifications.
• Familiarity with warehouse, manufacturing, or process-control systems.
• Ability to thrive in complex, fast-paced operating environments and solve problems across processing, paint, warehouse, environmental, and customer-service functions.
• Regular operating-floor presence across shifts and ability to build trust with employees, labor representatives, and cross-functional partners.
• Ability to balance customer commitments and operational performance with rigorous safety, environmental, and regulatory discipline.
• Use of data, structured problem-solving, and continuous improvement to sustain strong operating results.
• Readiness to develop future leaders and lead the distinctive GM CCA Flint operation.

Responsibilities

• Own site performance across safety, environmental compliance, quality, cost, delivery, productivity, and employee engagement.
• Lead a workforce of approximately 350 employees and build a high-performance culture across 31 salaried team members through feedback, accountability, inclusion, engagement, and visible presence on the operating floor.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership across sheet-metal processing, paint operations, warehousing, dealer-direct activity, and redistribution/carload work.
• Drive operational excellence through strategic planning, standardized work, lean methods, continuous improvement, and disciplined change leadership.
• Maintain paint-process controls across ELPO/e-coat, sealer, booth, and topcoat operations, including applicable RTO requirements, continuous temperature recording, minimum retention time, and no-visible-emissions controls.
• Lead environmental stewardship for on-site wastewater treatment and paint-related chemical, solvent, ELPO/phosphate, sludge, and wastewater streams.
• Use operating data and KPIs to improve volume, productivity, labor utilization, overtime, quality, service, and cost.
• Build partnerships with labor representatives and business stakeholders and navigate labor relations with confidence, integrity, and respect.
• Establish goals, operating rhythms, performance standards, and action plans aligned with CCA and GM business objectives.
• Ensure compliance with GM policies, safety requirements, environmental standards, collective bargaining agreements, and applicable laws.
• Lead responses to operational disruptions, customer-impacting issues, safety or quality concerns, material-flow constraints, and environmental events, including situations that may require process shutdown, material strip-out, or escalation.
• Manage site staffing, workforce planning, timekeeping, overtime, succession planning, talent development, performance management, preventive maintenance, and capital priorities.
• Collaborate with CCA, engineering, quality, EHS, supply chain, HR/LR, finance, and other corporate functions to align site performance with broader business goals.
• Represent the facility in CCA leadership reviews and communicate performance, risks, opportunities, recovery plans, and resource needs.
• Promote a customer-first mindset supporting GM dealers, ACDelco customers, accessory customers, and other CCA stakeholders.

Benefits

• Relocation benefits are available for candidates who qualify under company policy.
• GM describes well-being support at work and at home and directs candidates to its Total Rewards resources for benefit details.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director