Warehouse Site Leader - Swartz Creek, MI
About The Position
General Motors is seeking a Site Leader (Plant Manager) for its Flint, Michigan Customer Care and Aftersales operation. This complex, integrated operation combines sheet-metal processing, painting, warehousing, dealer-direct activity, and redistribution/carload work. GM’s Customer Care and Aftersales organization provides post-purchase services and manages the service-parts supply chain through processing, redistribution, and parts distribution centers. The Site Leader provides full-site ownership and strategic and operational leadership across safety, environmental compliance, quality, cost, delivery, productivity, and employee engagement. The role leads approximately 350 employees and 31 salaried team members, builds a high-performance culture, and partners with labor representatives and stakeholders across environmental, quality, engineering, supply chain, HR/LR, finance, and other functions. The position is on-site in a shift-oriented operation and may require extended hours, weekends, holidays, and timely responses to urgent operational, customer, safety, quality, or environmental issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree; advanced degrees or relevant certifications are a plus.
- 10 or more 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, partnering with unions or represented workforces, 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 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 on-site in a shift-oriented operation and respond outside standard working hours, including extended hours, weekends, holidays, and urgent operational or environmental situations.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree or relevant certifications.
- Familiarity with warehouse, manufacturing, or process-control systems.
- Ability to thrive in complex, fast-paced 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 achieve sustainable results.
- Interest in developing future leaders and shaping the future of GM’s Flint site.
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 among 31 salaried team members through feedback, accountability, inclusion, engagement, and visible operating-floor presence.
- 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 regenerative thermal oxidizer requirements, temperature recording, retention time, and 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.
- Set 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 requiring 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 and 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
