Manufacturing Group Leader: Quality, Production, Maintenance

Job title: Manufacturing Group Leader: Quality, Production, Maintenance

Job description: About GM

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Job Description

This posting will close on May 21, 2021 @ 11:59 PM.

Group Leader Opportunity in St. Catharine’s, Ontario.

What Group Leaders Do?

Responsible for the effective use of personnel, material, and equipment. Participates in the training, developing and evaluating of hourly team members. Participates in the development of highly effective teams. Leads Global Manufacturing Systems(GMS) processes and serves as resource supporting launch and pilot activities in assigned areas. Meets or exceeds production cost schedule and maintains quality requirements. Maintains awareness of quality standards, and communicates department quality goals, and leverages resources to solve quality issues. Builds and maintains good working relationships with employees, union and management. Understands and consistently administer the National and Local Agreements between General Motors and UNIFOR. Implements and follows systems that prevent reoccurrence of known issues. Promote safe work practices and achieve objectives for ergonomics, health and safety and housekeeping. Motivates, trains and develops employees to effectively perform their jobs utilizing standardized methods. Ensure team members receive adequate JIT (job instruction training). Achieve production schedules and product requirements by applying lean manufacturing/synchronous principles with emphasis on variation reduction, control costs, and achieve productivity improvements. Coach, teach, counsel and mentor Group Leaders in these responsibilities.

Qualifications Required For All Positions

Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to lead diverse/cross-functional teams as well as mentor, empower and elicit work output from peers and other team members

Basic computer proficiency (i.e. Microsoft Word, typing, email etc.)

Willingness to work weekends, flexible works schedule with rotating shifts.

In addition to our core requirements above mentioned, we are looking to hire Group Leaders in 2 departments within St. Catharine’s Manufacturing facility.

Maintenance Group Leaders

Supervise a group of employees. Responsible for operations, maintenance, and repair of plant equipment

Required:

Ability to interpret blueprints and engineering drawings

High level of analytical ability where problems are complex

Proven project management and communication skills

Experience with SAP and MAXIMO (preferred)

Minimum of 1 year of related maintenance experience (preferred)

Production Group Leaders

Supervise a group of employees to develop business processes, manage production operations and foster an atmosphere of teamwork and cooperation. Consistently administer National and Local Agreement between General Motors and UNIFOR.

Preferred:

Knowledge of Continuous Improvement Processes (CIP)

Proficient in Throughput Improvement Process (TIP)

Advanced understanding of manufacturing and assembly processes

Experience supervising employees in a union environment

Additional Job Description

General Motors Manufacturing plays a critical role in the company’s pursuit of Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion. Every day, our diverse team has the opportunity to work together to solve challenges in a dynamic work environment full of ground-breaking technologies. Uniting our team is a strong commitment to safety and quality as we work to build world-class vehicles and components. From raw sheet metal to final assembly, this team is reinventing the tools and processes that will enable GM to deliver on products our customers love today as well as starting the transition to an All Electric Future.

Selected candidates will have the opportunity to learn new skills as well as influencing the development of manufacturing processes to support this historical and game-changing progression to electric and autonomous vehicles.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities. Should you be contacted by General Motors of Canada, please advise if you require accommodation. General Motors of Canada values diversity and is an equal opportunity employer.

Company: General Motors

Expected salary:

Location: Saint Catharines, ON – Glendale, AZ

Job date: Sat, 08 May 2021 22:05:37 GMT