Maintenance Group Leader

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the effective use of personnel, material, and equipment, with knowledge of semi-permanent mold and precision sand tooling and cold box system for core processes foundry.
• Participates in the training, developing and evaluating of hourly team members.
• Participates in the development of highly effective teams. Leads Global Manufacturing Systems (GMS) processes and serves as resource supporting launch and pilot activities in assigned areas.
• Meets or exceeds production cost schedule and maintains quality requirements.
• Maintains awareness of quality standards, and communicates department quality goals, and leverages resources to solve quality issues.
• Builds and maintains good working relationships with employees, union and management.
• Understands and 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronic, Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, or a related field; or relevant experience.
• Ability to interpret pneumatic and hydraulic drawings.
• Minimum of 1 year of relevant maintenance experience.
• Strong analytical skills to diagnose and resolve problems.
• Intermediate English proficiency, with the ability to hold a conversation.
• Experience leading and developing maintenance teams is preferred
• Experience with Siemens and Allen-Bradley PLCs.
• Experience using maintenance systems and tracking indicators such as MTTR and MTBF
• Availability to work rotating shifts (4x3 schedule) and availability to work on weekends.

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