Area Manager - Maintenance

Area Manager - Maintenance - Pontiac Stamping Onsite:  This role is categorized as onsite. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to our Pontiac Stamping plant location 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.

Area Manager - Maintenance provides leadership for the maintenance, controls, tool and die room, and facilities functions at Pontiac Metal Center. This role is accountable for safe, reliable, and cost-effective support of stamping and Flex Fab operations through strong equipment-maintenance practices, effective skilled-trades leadership, disciplined problem solving, and cross-functional execution. The Area Manager leads teams responsible for maintaining production equipment, controls systems, dies and die-room operations, plant infrastructure, and facility services. The role partners closely with Safety, HR/LR, Quality, Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials, contractors, and union leadership to protect employee safety, improve equipment uptime, reduce downtime, and sustain a high-performing manufacturing system. What You’ll Do Safety, compliance, and employee engagement Lead a culture in which safety is the first priority and all work is performed in accordance with GM standards (GM-UAW WSS), safe operating practices, and applicable regulatory expectations. Lead and sustain safety observation tours, risk assessments, corrective actions, and employee engagement activities within the assigned functions. Ensure maintenance, controls, die-room, facilities, and contractor activities are planned and executed with appropriate risk controls, permits, training, and personal protective equipment. Build effective working relationships with employees, union representatives, skilled-trades leadership, contractors, and plant leadership. Maintenance and equipment performance Direct preventive, predictive, corrective, and emergency maintenance activities for stamping equipment and related plant assets. Improve equipment performance and reduce maintenance downtime through disciplined preventive-maintenance execution, effective work-order management, root-cause problem solving, and focused countermeasures. Review equipment performance, downtime trends, maintenance priorities, and resource requirements to ensure the plant’s production needs are supported. Coordinate response to equipment failures and ensure issues are contained, communicated, resolved, and prevented from recurring. Support maintenance planning, spare-parts strategy, asset care, and long-term equipment reliability and performance improvements. Controls and automation Provide leadership and direction for controls and automation support across stamping operations. Ensure controls-related issues are prioritized and resolved through structured troubleshooting, technical problem solving, and effective coordination with engineering and production teams. Support the safe implementation, modification, documentation, and sustainment of controls systems, machine safeguards, interlocks, and automation improvements. Develop technical capability within controls personnel and promote effective knowledge transfer across shifts and functions. Die room and tool-and-die support Lead day-to-day die-room performance, die maintenance priorities, die readiness, and die-related support for production. Partner with Production, Tool and Die, Engineering, and Quality to improve die-related uptime, die condition, repair response, and long-term die planning. Support die launches and major program activities by coordinating readiness, timing, resource requirements, issue resolution, and cross-functional follow-up. Ensure die-room work is performed safely and in accordance with die-handling procedures, equipment requirements, and standardized work. Facilities and