Maintenance Group Leader

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary :

As a Group Leader you will be leading 15-30 skilled trades (millwrights, toolmakers, electricians, and pipefitters). The Group Leader will be responsible for people’s times using Kronos ensuring team is getting paid appropriately. They are also responsible for using GMS to track deliverables on a board.  They will have to escalate and correct concerns on the floor. Their main area will be knowing the equipment escalating issues that they can't solve and solving the ones that they can.

Responsibilities :

• Supervise medium / large team in the body shop in vehicle manufacturing plant.
• Responsible for the effective use of personnel, material, and equipment.
• Responsible for ensuring proper training, development and evaluation of hourly team members to promote highly effective teams.
• Lead Global Manufacturing Systems (GMS) processes and serve as a resource supporting launch and pilot activities in assigned areas.
• Maintain a good working relationship and communicate with employees, union representatives, and management team.
• Understand and consistently administer collective bargaining agreements and company policies.
• Model GM’s cultural behaviors and demonstrate the highest level of integrity at all times.
• Achieve Safety, People, Quality, Responsiveness, and Cost key performance indicators supporting the BPD.
• Cultivate a safety culture, and implement and enforce workplace safety rules and policies, including ergonomics, health and safety, and good housekeeping.
• Complete administrative tasks such as timekeeping and maintains departmental records and reports.
• Meet production cost schedules by supporting Production’s ability to ‘Build in Station.”
• Maintain delivery methods for all operational material systems.
• Utilize appropriate inventory controls and follow up.
• Coordinate operational changes with Production.
• Manage scrap appropriately and timely.
• Identify opportunities for improvement using tools such as layered audits.
• Resolve issues working cross-functionally to closure.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.