Maintenance & Facilities Manager – Battery Cell Development Center

Job Description

The Role

The Maintenance & Facilities Leader provides strategic direction and operational leadership for safety equipment maintenance and facility operations at the Battery Cell Development Center (BCDC). This leader ensures safe reliable and efficient operations in a fastpaced and evolving development environment enabling GMs electrification strategy. The role includes direct leadership of Technical Operations Specialists and other technical personnel with accountability for talent development cross-functional alignment and delivery of key performance metrics.

What Youll Do

Safety & Compliance Leadership

• Collaborate with GM Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) teams to ensure regulatory and corporate compliance.
• Champion a culture of safety and compliance aligned with GM corporate standards and all applicable regulatory requirements.
• Oversee development and execution of safety protocols hazardous materials controls and emergency response plans (e.g. PSM DG OSHA compliance).
• Lead incident investigations ensure robust root-cause problem solving and implement systemic corrective and preventative actions.
• Conduct and oversee regular audits ensuring audit readiness at all times.

Maintenance Leadership

• Provide strategic direction for maintenance operations supporting developmentscale processes equipment and process ancillary equipment.
• Ensure asset reliability uptime and preventive maintenance programs that support iterative development needs.
• Lead complex multi-functional projects with full accountability for schedule cost risk mitigation and deliverables.
• Own budgeting forecasting and resource planning for the maintenance and technical operations organization.
• Develop and mentor a technical team with the capabilities required for advanced battery development.
• Apply GMS principles appropriately to a nonsteadystate environment ensuring discipline while enabling innovation.
• Monitor key performance indicators (uptime cycle times MTTR/MTBF changeover efficiency) and drive improvements.

Facilities Leadership

• Collaborate with GM Facilities Operations teams to ensure base-building utilities and cleanroom environments reliably support evolving process capacity and safety requirements.
• Own maintenance and uptime of process-specific ancillary equipment (dust collectors fume collectors solvent/abatement etc.).
• Ensure facility capabilities scale with evolving program process and safety requirements.
• Lead planning and execution of facility modifications expansions and infrastructure upgrades.
• Maintain an inspectionready environment through disciplined housekeeping and facility stewardship.

Scope and Impact

• Leads large complex initiatives affecting multiple functions programs or development areas.
• Makes operational and financial decisions impacting safety readiness throughput and overall facility performance.
• Sets objectives and leads delivery of KPIs aligned with GMs strategic priorities for electrification and technology development.
• Drives organizational change influencing cross-functional leaders and challenging legacy approaches.
• Builds a strong technical organization through hiring workforce planning coaching and capability development.
• Represents the development center in enterprise forums cross-functional reviews and EHS/facility governance.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 7 years of experience in manufacturing environment.
• 5 years of experience as a people leader with demonstrated success building and developing teams.
• Ability to work or rotate across all shifts as required by operations.
• Flexibility to support overtime weekends and holidays based on business need.
• Understanding of production systems automation and development/pilot environments.
• Strong analytical capability including root-cause problem solving and data-driven decision-making.
• Experience leading and scaling operations within ambiguous or rapidly evolving environments.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with proven ability to lead through change.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Knowledge of lithiumion cell manufacturing processes (electrode assembly formation).
• Experience in development pilot or startup environments.
• Understanding of Workplace Safety Systems and regulatory frameworks.
• Familiarity with GMS and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Strong technical problemsolving skills.

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