Warehouse Site Leader - Swartz Creek, MI

Military Spouse Corporate Career Network•Swartz Creek, MI

2d•Onsite

About The Position

General Motors is seeking a Site Leader (Plant Manager) for its Flint, Michigan Customer Care and Aftersales operation. The site is a complex, integrated processing-and-paint operation combining sheet-metal processing, painting, warehousing, dealer-direct activity, and redistribution/carload work. GM Customer Care and Aftersales provides post-purchase vehicle parts, service, and support, including for recalls and warranties, and manages the service-parts supply chain through processing, redistribution, and parts distribution centers. The Site Leader has full operational ownership and leads a workforce of approximately 350 employees, including 31 salaried team members. The role partners with labor representatives and cross-functional business stakeholders to deliver safety, environmental, quality, service, cost, productivity, and employee-engagement results. It requires an inspirational, hands-on leader who can guide a shift-based operation, drive change, and maintain rigorous operational and regulatory discipline.

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 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.
Ability to use 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 degrees 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.
A front-line leadership approach with regular presence across shifts and an 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 results.
Readiness to develop future leaders and lead GM’s Flint site.

Responsibilities

Own site performance across safety, environmental compliance, quality, cost, delivery, productivity, and employee engagement.
Lead 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 oxidizer, 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, navigating labor relations with confidence, integrity, and respect.
Establish goals, operating rhythms, performance standards, and action plans aligned with CCA and GM 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 shutdown, material strip-out, or escalation.
Manage 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 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.