Area Manager - Maintenance

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Job Description Area Manager - Maintenance - Pontiac Stamping

Onsite:  This role is categorized as onsite. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to our Pontiac Stamping plant location

Sponsorship:  GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE.  DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

The Role Area Manager - Maintenance provides leadership for the maintenance, controls, tool and die room, and facilities functions at Pontiac Metal Center. This role is accountable for safe, reliable, and cost-effective support of stamping and Flex Fab operations through strong equipment-maintenance practices, effective skilled-trades leadership, disciplined problem solving, and cross-functional execution. The Area Manager leads teams responsible for maintaining production equipment, controls systems, dies and die-room operations, plant infrastructure, and facility services. The role partners closely with Safety, HR/LR, Quality, Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials, contractors, and union leadership to protect employee safety, improve equipment uptime, reduce downtime, and sustain a high-performing manufacturing system.

What You’ll Do Safety, compliance, and employee engagement • Lead a culture in which safety is the first priority and all work is performed in accordance with GM standards (GM-UAW WSS), safe operating practices, and applicable regulatory expectations. • Lead and sustain safety observation tours, risk assessments, corrective actions, and employee engagement activities within the assigned functions. • Ensure maintenance, controls, die-room, facilities, and contractor activities are planned and executed with appropriate risk controls, permits, training, and personal protective equipment. • Build effective working relationships with employees, union representatives, skilled-trades leadership, contractors, and plant leadership.

Maintenance and equipment performance • Direct preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance activities for stamping equipment and related plant assets. • Improve equipment performance and reduce maintenance downtime through disciplined preventive-maintenance execution, effective work-order management, root-cause problem solving, and focused countermeasures. • Review equipment performance, downtime trends, maintenance priorities, and resource requirements to ensure the plant’s production needs are supported. • Coordinate response to equipment failures and ensure issues are contained, communicated, resolved, and prevented from recurring. • Support maintenance planning, spare-parts strategy, asset care, and long-term equipment reliability and performance improvements.

Controls and automation • Provide leadership and direction for controls and automation support across stamping operations. • Ensure controls-related issues are prioritized and resolved through structured troubleshooting, technical problem solving, and effective coordination with engineering and production teams. • Support the safe implementation, modification, documentation, and sustainment of controls systems, machine safeguards, interlocks, and automation improvements. • Develop technical capability within controls personnel and promote effective knowledge transfer across shifts and functions.

Die room and tool-and-die support • Lead day-to-day die-room performance, die maintenance priorities, die readiness, and die-related support for production. • Partner with Production, Tool and Die, Engineering, and Quality to improve die-related uptime, die condition, repair response, and long-term die planning. • Support die launches and major program activities by coordinating readiness, timing, resource requirements, issue resolution, and cross-functional follow-up. • Ensure die-room work is performed safely and in accordance with die-handling procedures, equipment requirements, and standardized work.

Facilities and infrastructure • Oversee facility-maintenance activities supporting buildings, grounds, utilities, ventilation, cranes, hoists, docks, work areas, and other plant infrastructure. • Coordinate facility work with internal resources and service providers to maintain a safe, functional, and production-ready workplace. • Manage priorities, service requests, contractor performance, and corrective actions for facility and infrastructure issues. • Support facility projects, renovations, repairs, and changes while maintaining safe execution, clear communication, and effective management of change.

Leadership, business performance, and continuous improvement • Lead, coach, develop, and evaluate salaried and hourly team members; establish clear expectations and build highly effective teams across shifts and functions. • Ensure team members receive appropriate training, job instruction, qualification, and development opportunities. • Use GMS principles, visual management, standardized work, TIP activities, and data-driven problem solving to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people performance. • Participate in plant operating reviews and communicate performance, risks, resource needs, and action plans to plant leadership. • Manage department budgets, labor, contractors, materials, and other resources to meet business objectives. • Support capital planning, equipment replacement, facility improvements, and other projects that improve reliability, capability, safety, or cost. • Coordinate work across shifts and maintain effective handoffs, escalation routines, and follow-through on open actions.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) ​​ • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, maintenance management, business, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant manufacturing experience. • Demonstrated leadership experience in automotive manufacturing, stamping, maintenance, controls, tool and die, facilitie

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