General Motors

Area Manager Maintenance

General Motors • $100K — $120K *
Lansing, MI 48911In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in technical, maintenance, or manufacturing roles in industrial or automotive settings.
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Strong knowledge of stamping equipment, maintenance practices, and plant-floor systems.
  • Proven ability to diagnose complex technical problems and lead teams to solutions.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with a strong focus on relationship building.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Tool & Die and Maintenance teams across multiple stamping plants, aligning priorities with business objectives.
  • Oversee maintenance functions and ensure equipment availability, capability, and maintenance to meet production needs.
  • Establish clear ownership and escalation paths for addressing technical risks and equipment issues between plants.
  • Implement proactive equipment reliability strategies encompassing maintenance and failure-mode elimination.
  • Coordinate technical responses during equipment failures and other critical events affecting production.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
  • Access to a culture prioritizing safety, quality, and accountability.
  • Involvement in cutting-edge manufacturing technologies and processes.
  • Participation in the Global Manufacturing System principles and continuous learning environment.
  • Strong emphasis on team collaboration and communication.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Area Manager Maintenance - Stamping provides technical and operational leadership across Lansing's 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.
  • Bachelor's 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.
  • Master's 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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General Motors Company engages in the manufacture and sale of cars and trucks in the United States, China, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. It offers sedans, crossovers, sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks, coupes, sports/convertibles and hybrid vehicles, hatchbacks/wagons, and vans, as well as mini cars in India. The company also provides parts and accessories, such as iPod and MP3 compatibility, mobility accessories, performance parts, AC parts and services, and merchandise. In addition, it offers vehicle safety, security, and information services. The company provides used vehicles. It offers its products through dealers and distributors. General Motors Company was formerly known as NGMCO, Inc. and changed its name to General Motors Company in July 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Detroit, Michigan. It operates manufacturing facilities in India, the United States, and Canada. General Motors Company operates as a subsidiary of the United States Department of The Treasury. General Motors led global vehicle sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any other automaker, and is currently among the world's largest automakers by vehicle unit sales. General Motors acts in most countries outside the USA via wholly-owned subsidiaries but operates in China through 10 joint ventures. GM's OnStar subsidiary provides vehicle safety, security, and information services. In 2009, General Motors shed several brands, closing Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer, and emerged from a government-backed Chapter 11 reorganization. In 2010, GM made an initial public offering IPOs to date and returned to profitability later that year.

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Size
157,000 employees
Market Cap
$46.9 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$6.4 billion
Founded
1908
5 Year Trend
-3.2%
Revenue
$122.4 billion
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