Business Manager

Business Manager

Requirements

• 3 years of experience working in a manufacturing environment
• Ability to work 2nd shift
• Ability to work over-time as needed
• Demonstrate the ability to be result oriented
• Manpower/resource management experience
• Production operations experience

Responsibilities

• Maintain awareness of quality standards, and communicate department quality goals, and leverages resources to solve quality issues.
• 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.
• Implement and follow 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of manufacturing experience
• Experience working with the UAW
• Continuous improvement and lean manufacturing experience
• Bachelor’s degree