Area Manager – Oshawa

This posting is for an existing vacancy within the organization and is open to new applications. As part of the application process, Artificial Intelligence will be used in the hiring process for this role.

This role is categorized as onsite. The successful candidate is expected to report to Oshawa Assembly on a full-time basis.

The Area Manager provides overall leadership for their assigned department operations in a truck assembly plant and is accountable for the safe, effective, and efficient production of high-quality trucks. This role leads salaried and hourly employees across multiple shifts, coordinates support from Manufacturing Engineering, Maintenance, Quality, Materials, Industrial Engineering, Skilled Trades, and other plant functions, and drives performance against Safety, People, Quality, Responsiveness, Cost, and Environmental objectives. The Area Manager creates a culture of accountability, inclusion, continuous improvement, and employee involvement while ensuring that standardized work, GM operating requirements, quality systems, and labour-relations practices are consistently applied.

Key responsibilities

• Safety and environmental leadership: Establish safety as the first priority through visible leadership, safety observations, incident review, corrective actions, and timely escalation of hazards. Ensure compliance with applicable GM workplace safety systems, procedures, training, ergonomics requirements, emergency processes, and environmental standards.
• Production and operational performance: Lead day-to-day operations across assigned areas and shifts. Deliver production plan, schedule attainment, throughput, first-time quality, downtime, scrap, labour utilization, and other plant performance targets.
• Quality and customer focus: Own the department response to quality concerns, containment, defect prevention, and issue resolution. Ensure compliance with Process Control Plans, Tool and Equipment requirements, Built-in Quality practices, Global Standard Inspection Process requirements, PFMEA/SFMEA controls, and layered audits.
• People leadership and labour relations: Lead, coach, and develop Shift Leaders, Group Leaders, Team Leaders, and other salaried employees. Set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, complete performance and development activities, and build succession strength.
• GMS, continuous improvement, and productivity: Lead General Manufacturing System implementation and sustainment within the area. Use Business Plan Deployment, layered audits, bottleneck reviews, waste elimination, and continuous improvement methods to improve performance.
• Cross-functional and launch support: Serve as the department production voice in plant, program, launch, and cross-functional forums. Partner with Manufacturing Engineering, Product Engineering, Quality, Materials, Maintenance, Industrial Engineering, Facilities, and suppliers to resolve product, process, equipment, and material issues.
• Financial and administrative accountability: Develop, monitor, and control the area budget, overtime, scrap, operating expenses, and approved improvement investments.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership experience in truck assembly, automotive manufacturing, vehicle assembly, or a comparable high-volume production environment.
• Experience leading salaried and hourly employees, preferably across multiple shifts.
• Strong knowledge of operations, including production systems, standardized work, quality processes, and manufacturing problem solving.
• Strong understanding of workplace safety, ergonomics, quality systems, continuous improvement, and labour-relations fundamentals.
• Ability to work onsite in a plant environment and support off-shift, weekend, overtime, and launch requirements when needed.

Preferred qualifications

• Successful completion of a Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, operations, business, or a related discipline.
• Experience with GM manufacturing systems, GMS, BIQ, Business Plan Deployment, PFMEA/SFMEA, structured problem solving, and launch processes.
• Experience managing budgets, productivity initiatives, capital projects, or major process changes.

Success measures

Success in this role will be demonstrated through sustained improvement in safety performance, employee engagement, production schedule attainment, first-time quality, and GMS maturity.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is $165,000.00 to $214,300.00. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

Benefits

• Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and supplemental benefits for pregnancy, parental and adoption leave.
• Healthcare, dental and vision benefits including health care spending account and wellness incentive.
• Life insurance plans to cover you and your family.
• Company and matching contributions to a Defined Contribution Pension plan to help you save for retirement.
• GM Vehicle Purchase Plan for you and your family.

THIS JOB IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR RELOCATIONS BENEFITS. ANY RELOCATION COSTS WOULD BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE SELECTED CANDIDATE. GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE.

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