Area Manager Maintenance

Job Description

Area Manager Maintenance Stamping provides technical and operational leadership across Lansings stamping organization. This role is accountable for safe reliable and competitive technical operations across multiple stamping areas including maintenance execution equipment reliability skilled-trades capability problem solving and continuous improvement.

The successful candidate will lead through a strong technical presence on the plant floor establish clear priorities and partner with Stamping Operations Manufacturing Engineering Quality Safety Facilities Labor Relations and other plant functions to deliver business results. This leader will develop people strengthen standardized work remove technical roadblocks and ensure the organization is prepared to support current production future programs and changing manufacturing technologies.

What you will do

• Lead the Tool & Die and Maintenance teams across multiple Lansing stamping plants at Lansing Grand River Stamping and Lansing Regional Stamping aligning priorities to safety quality responsiveness cost delivery and people objectives.
• Oversee the Tool & Die & Maintenance functions and its partnership with Operations Manufacturing Engineering Quality and Production Control. Ensure die tooling and related equipment are available capable maintained repaired and released to support production requirements.
• Establish clear ownership and escalation paths between the two plants so technical risks equipment conditions staffing needs and recovery actions are visible and addressed consistently.
• Review tooling condition repair priorities spare components die-life risks preventive maintenance requirements and tooling capital needs; balance resources across stamping areas and facilities.
• Lead Tool & Die and Maintenance technical problem solving with a focus on root cause robust repair repeat-failure elimination standardized repair practices and lessons learned.
• Establish and sustain a proactive equipment-reliability strategy including preventive and predictive maintenance failure-mode elimination critical-spares planning and recurring-defect reduction.
• Ensure safe execution of work through disciplined application of Workplace Safety Systems energy-control requirements risk assessment standardized work and applicable GM procedures.
• Support press automation controls material-handling tooling die and plant-floor systems as applicable to the assigned stamping areas.
• Coordinate & approve technical response during equipment failures die damage tooling issues launches major repairs rebuilds installations and other events that could affect production or employee safety.
• Ensure Tool & Die and Maintenance teams participate in launch process-change and equipment-modification reviews early enough to identify maintainability accessibility reliability and spare-parts risks.
• Build technical depth through structured qualifications coaching mentoring knowledge transfer and succession planning for skilled trades and technical leaders.
• Provide clear fact-based communication to plant leadership and cross-functional stakeholders including status risks decisions required and recovery plans.
• Support capital projects equipment modifications technology deployment and program or process changes from requirements definition through installation validation and handoff to operations.
• Champion Global Manufacturing System principles and a culture of ownership inclusion continuous learning and accountability.

Leadership expectations

• Lead as one team across multiple stamping areas and plant functions.
• Speak fearlessly about safety technical risk equipment condition and barriers to performance.
• Own the outcome by driving issues to closure rather than transferring problems between organizations.
• Build trust through visible floor presence consistent follow-up and transparent communication.
• Develop direct and indirect team members through coaching meaningful feedback and deliberate technical development.
• Make timely risk-based decisions while maintaining high standards for safety quality and compliance.

Required capabilities

• 5 years demonstrated experience leading technical maintenance manufacturing engineering or skilled-trades operations in a complex industrial or automotive environment.
• Bachelors degree in engineering or equivalent Work Experience
• Strong knowledge of stamping manufacturing equipment maintenance practices automation controls tooling/dies or related plant-floor systems.
• Proven ability to diagnose complex technical problems and lead cross-functional teams to durable solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities with a high degree of autonomy accountability and sound judgment.
• Strong understanding of safety systems energy control risk assessment and safe work execution in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to translate technical issues into clear business impacts options recommendations and action plans.
• Strong written verbal interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Ability to build effective relationships with skilled trades operations leaders engineers suppliers contractors and senior plant leadership.
• Demonstrated commitment to developing people improving standardized work and sustaining gains.
• Proficiency with common business maintenance manufacturing and data-analysis tools.

Preferred experience

• 7 years experience supporting automotive stamping operations large presses transfer presses automation robotics controls or high-volume manufacturing.
• Masters degree in engineering or business Administration
• Experience leading Tool & Die operations die repair and maintenance die tryout tooling modifications die moves tooling readiness or die-related quality and downtime recovery.
• Experience leading maintenance-reliability improvement major equipment repairs rebuilds installations or manufacturing launches.
• Experience managing technical priorities across more than one plant assembly stamping area or other operating unit.
• Experience working with Global Manufacturing System principles structured problem solving continuous improvement or similar operating systems.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g. H1-B OPT STEM OPT CPT TN J-1 etc). This role is categorized as onsite. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location on a full-time basis. This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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