The Parts Distribution Center (PDC) Plant Manager has responsibility for the overall results of the warehouse, including customer satisfaction, increasing employee productivity, and ensuring safety while maintaining quality standards.
We are seeking a strategic and innovative individual with experience leading others within the Supply Chain, Warehousing and Fulfillment industry that is adept at using their leadership and management skills to lead all aspects of warehouse operations with a focus on Problem Solving, Continuous Improvement and Communications.
Why This Role Matters
- Scale & Impact: Lead a high-volume, technologically advanced PDC that plays a pivotal role in GM’s global parts distribution network.
- The site is preparing for major transformational change in the coming months and requires a leader who can drive execution-delivering projects, meeting deadlines, and achieving key milestones-while also empowering the team to embrace the change and remain engaged throughout the transition
- Innovation & Transformation: Drive operational excellence in a dynamic environment leveraging automation, robotics, and advanced Warehouse Management Systems (WMS).
- Leadership Visibility: This position offers significant exposure and growth potential within GM’s executive trajectory.
What You’ll Lead
- Full site ownership across Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Employee Engagement.
- Manage a large, unionized workforce of salaried and hourly employees, fostering a high-performance culture.
- Oversee capital budgets, operating budgets, preventive and predictive maintenance programs, and ensure compliance with GM Safety and GMS Manufacturing Practices.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives, change management, and technology adoption (Infor WMS, ASRS).
- Ensure adherence to Health, Safety, Environmental, and Dangerous Goods standards.
- Collaborate across the CCA network to align site performance with broader business goals.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for safety, quality, warehouse cost, labor utilization, productivity, yield, effective asset utilization and results of Operations Cost Improvement initiatives.
- Focusing on ensuring a safe, accident-free warehouse operation, while increasing productivity and exceeding employee satisfaction and warehouse objectives.
- Ensures adherence with the GM’s Safety practices and the GMS Manufacturing Practices.
- Set and meet all Health and Safety targets.
- Accountable for capital budgets and expenditures.
- Responsible (together with Technical Manager) for the plants maintenance and upkeep, including preventative and predictive maintenance programs.
- Successfully lead, motivate, and develop plant personnel.
- Participate in negotiation of and ensure compliance with collective agreements.
- Meet or exceed customer service level targets in accordance with internal and external audit targets, including Dangerous Goods, Environmental & Health and Safety.
- Responsible for promoting continuous improvement and implementing change (Change Management).
Required Qualifications
- Must have 6+ years of Parts Distribution Center experience managing salaried and hourly employees
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience leading IMS/WMS facilities
- Excellent Communication skills
- Experience in leading GMS or equivalent principles
- High level of analytical and interpersonal skills to work effectively with others
- Ability to work cross functionally within CCA and GM, lead change, with a result focused One Team approach.
- Strong emphasis in Safety (Workplace and Employee)
- Focus to drive change
- The ability to balance competing priorities while maintaining effectiveness in a dynamic, often chaotic environment
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, inclusive of understanding the audience, getting the message across, presenting information effectively, and communicating openly.
- Effective and efficient time management focusing on the most impactful activities and challenge those that distract from the identified goal
- Ability to build strong relationships, develop teams, and think in a strategic manner.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel and capacity to develop, maintain and analyze data.
- Be curious and exhibit managerial courage.
Preferred Qualifications
- Site leader experience
- Experience leading continuous improvements in Safety, People, Quality, Responsiveness, Cost
- Please only apply if you DO NOT need sponsorship to work in the United States now or in the future. We are unable to consider candidates who require sponsorship
Desired Attributes
- Integral: Demonstrates integrity and ethical behavior.
- Effective Communication: Clearly conveys information and ideas to individuals and teams in a manner that engages them and helps them understand and retain the message.
- Resilient: Adaptable and able to handle stress and challenges.
- Detail-Oriented: Attentive to details and accuracy.
- Student of the Business: Continuously learning and improving.
- Tech Savvy: Proficient with technology and inventory management systems.
- Ambitious: Driven and motivated to achieve goals.
- Team Player: Works well with others and fosters a collaborative environment.
- Proactive Problem Solving: Anticipates potential issues and implements solutions before they escalate.
- Commitment to Excellent: Sets high performance standards and strives for continuous improvements in all aspects of work.
- Passionate: Enthusiastic about the automotive industry.
- Timely: Manages time effectively and meets deadlines.
- Managerial Courage: Willing to take difficult stands, provide direct and actionable feedback, and make tough decisions in the best interest of the team and company
