Plant Manager - Lansing Stamping

Job Description

Plant Manager - Lansing Stamping 

Work Arrangement:

This role is categorized as onsite. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to our Lansing Stamping Locations.

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

The Plant Manager supports safe, efficient, and people-focused operations at Lansing Regional Stamping and Lansing Grand River Stamping, GM manufacturing stamping sites with a unionized workforce. This role partners closely with plant leadership, operations, quality, maintenance, safety, HR/LR, and union leadership to deliver daily performance and continuous improvement across the plant.

The Plant Manager helps translate plant objectives into day-to-day execution by leading cross-shift communication, monitoring performance, resolving operational issues, coaching frontline leaders, and reinforcing standardized work, safety systems, and accountability.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities)

• Lead daily plant execution by reviewing production, responsiveness, quality, staffing, and operational issues, budgets and by driving follow-up actions with the appropriate teams.
• Lead by teaching and promoting GMS operating requirements, serving as the principal lead for regional GMS activities to ensure alignment and effectiveness.
• Champion a strong safety culture through floor presence, incident review, safety observation activity, and support of Workplace Safety System processes.
• Coach and develop salaried and represented leaders, including shift leaders, group leaders, team leaders, and other frontline leaders, to strengthen accountability, capability, and engagement.
• Support quality performance by monitoring plant quality systems, reviewing escalations, driving fast-response problem-solving, and strengthening assembly plant customer partnerships to ensure aligned expectations, rapid issue resolution, and sustained quality improvement.
• Help manage cost and resource utilization through purchasing approvals, overtime planning, staffing reviews, productivity discussions, and budget-related routines.
• Partner with HR/LR and union leadership to address employee relations matters, workforce issues, and plant labor topics in a timely and constructive way.
• Reinforce standardized work, layered accountability, and continuous improvement practices consistent with GM manufacturing expectations.
• Represent plant leadership in meetings, reviews, and escalation forums, and provide backup leadership support as needed.

Your Skills and Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience as a Manufacturing People Leader is also essential.
• Progressive leadership experience in manufacturing or industrial operations, preferably in a high-volume, unionized environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead across safety, people, quality, responsiveness, and cost priorities in a complex plant setting.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and communication skills, with the ability to lead through changing priorities and operational disruption.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing systems, continuous improvement methods, and plant business processes.

What Can Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience in Stamping, Body and/or Paint, Tool & Die.
• Multi-plant experience.
• Global Surface Quality Evaluation (GSQE) experience.
• Experience working directly with represented workforces and union partners.

Leadership Expectations

• Model GM behaviors in safety, integrity, accountability, inclusion, and respect.
• Demonstrate strong results orientation and customer focus in daily decision-making, problem solving, and plant execution.
• Build trust across shifts and functions through visibility, responsiveness, collaboration, influencing, and consistent follow-through.
• Champion people’s development by developing talent and strengthening the leadership pipeline through coaching, feedback, and mentorship.
• Drive disciplined execution while fostering continuous improvement and operational excellence.

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 author