Warehouse Site Leader

GM • Swartz Creek, MI

4d • Onsite

About The Position

General Motors is seeking a Site Leader (Plant Manager) for its Flint, Michigan Customer Care and Aftersales operation. This complex, integrated processing-and-paint facility combines sheet-metal processing, painting, warehousing, dealer-direct activity, and redistribution/carload work. The site supports GM’s post-purchase customer services and service-parts supply chain. The Site Leader has full responsibility for site performance across safety, environmental compliance, quality, cost, delivery, productivity, and employee engagement, leading approximately 350 employees and 31 salaried team members. The role requires strategic and hands-on leadership in a fast-paced, shift-oriented operation, along with close partnership with labor representatives and stakeholders across environmental, quality, engineering, supply chain, HR/LR, finance, and other functions.

The leader drives operational excellence and change through strategic planning, standardized work, lean methods, continuous improvement, operating data, and disciplined performance management. The position oversees paint-process controls and environmental stewardship, including wastewater treatment and paint-related chemical and waste streams. It also manages staffing and workforce planning, timekeeping, overtime, talent development, maintenance, and capital priorities; ensures compliance with company policies, safety and environmental requirements, collective bargaining agreements, and applicable laws; and leads responses to disruptions and customer, safety, quality, material-flow, or environmental issues.

This is an onsite role in Flint, Michigan, with the selected candidate expected to report to the specific location full-time. The role may require extended hours, weekend or holiday support, and responses 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.
• 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 onsite in a shift-oriented operation and respond outside standard working hours, including extended hours, weekends, holidays, and urgent operational or environmental situations.
• Candidates 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 spanning 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 operating results.

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 floor presence.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership for 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 for 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 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 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 functions including engineering, quality, EHS, supply chain, HR/LR, and finance 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 states that it supports employee well-being at work and at home and provides Total Rewards resources; specific benefit offerings are not detailed in the posting.

What This Job Offers

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