Area Manager, Oshawa Assembly

Position summary

Workplace

• The role is categorized as onsite, with full-time reporting to Oshawa Assembly.

Safety, production, and quality

• Lead safety observations, incident reviews, hazard escalation, compliance, and sustained corrective actions.
• Deliver production plans and performance targets while managing staffing, shift reports, bottlenecks, and recovery plans.
• Ensure standardized work, process controls, operator certification, quality containment, audits, and permanent corrective actions.

People, improvement, and launches

• Coach and develop leaders, support staffing and engagement, and maintain effective employee, union, HR, and Labour Relations partnerships.
• Sustain GMS and continuous improvement, improve productivity, and maintain performance measures and escalation routines.
• Coordinate cross-functional issue resolution, product launches, trials, validation builds, changes, and launch readiness.

Financial and administrative accountability

• Control budgets, overtime, scrap, operating expenses, and approved improvement investments.
• Maintain timely records, audits, training documentation, staffing administration, and communications.

Required qualifications

• Leadership experience in truck assembly, automotive manufacturing, vehicle assembly, or a comparable high-volume production environment.
• Experience leading salaried and hourly employees; multiple-shift experience is preferred.
• Knowledge of operations, production systems, standardized work, quality processes, manufacturing problem solving, safety, ergonomics, continuous improvement, and labour relations.
• Cross-functional leadership, analytical, organizational, communication, decision-making, and conflict-resolution abilities.
• Ability to work onsite in a plant and support off-shift, weekend, overtime, and launch requirements when needed.

Preferred qualifications

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

Compensation and benefits

• Salary range is $165,000 to $214,300; the actual base salary depends on position-related factors.
• Benefits include paid time off, healthcare, dental and vision coverage, life insurance, pension contributions, and a GM Vehicle Purchase Plan.

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