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You will maintain awareness of quality standards, and communicate department quality goals, and leverages resources to solve quality issues. You will build and maintain good working relationships with employees, union and management, and understand to consistently administer the National and Local Agreements between General Motors and the United Auto Workers Union. Implements and follows systems that prevent reoccurrence of known issues.
- Responsible for the effective use of personnel, material, and equipment
- Participate in the selection of new employees and trains, develops and evaluates salaried and hourly employees, and the development of highly effective teams
- Leads Global Manufacturing Systems(GMS) processes across multiple departments and serves as lead resource supporting launch and pilot activities in assigned areas
- Meets or exceeds production cost schedule and maintains quality requirements
- 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.
Additional Description
- Strong leadership skills
- Demonstrated capability to implement and coach GMS principles
- Demonstrated capability to manage multiple manufacturing operations activities
- Demonstrated capability in project management skills
- Ability to travel (domestic and international) for extended periods of time
- Thorough knowledge of manufacturing processes
- Excellent Oral and written communication skills
- High level of interpersonal skills to work effectively with others, motivate employees, and elicit work output
- High level of analytical ability where problems are unusual and difficult
- Demonstrated technical and professional skills
- Proven ability to work independently, take initiative, and work to plan
- 5+ years experience in a manufacturing environment
- Previous experience leading salaried teams
This role is categorized as onsite. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Bedford on a full-time basis.
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