RESS Quality Manager

About the role

The RESS Quality Manager will develop operational quality plans that directly support the organization’s business strategies and impact business unit results. This role involves leading a team, providing employee development, monitoring training, driving the performance management process, and managing organizational structure.

Responsibilities

• Develop operational quality plans to align with business strategies and drive business unit results.
• Lead a team, including employee development, training oversight, and performance management.
• Identify and lead staffing initiatives for the RESS Quality team, including facilitating group meetings, communicating GM policies and procedures, and delivering safety messages.
• Communicate vision and strategy through presentations and other means.
• Ensure employees complete all corporate and function-specific training.
• Support employee career development goals and execute initiatives to improve team capability and capacity.
• Actively participate in the RESS HRM committee.
• Assign and balance workloads for direct reports, prioritize tasks, and make decisions on resource allocation, including employee assignments and overtime compensation.
• Communicate with all levels of the organization, including segment stakeholders, other functions, and suppliers.
• Assess supplier quality and its impact on RESS assembly production.
• Collaborate with department and plant leaders to develop creative solutions.
• Inspire organizational acceptance of new concepts, practices, and approaches.
• Summarize critical issues with resolutions and communicate them to leadership.
• Analyze and resolve complex quality issues to reduce plant disruptions.
• Work flexible, extended, and non-core hours to ensure issue resolution.
• Solve problems and implement innovative strategies.
• Provide leadership in GM Quality Systems to meet business objectives.
• Lead GMS (Global Manufacturing System) execution and improvement.
• Establish, implement, and maintain Quality Management Systems (Global Quality Manual, GMS, BIQ).
• Drive productivity improvements and technology deployment.
• Partner with HQ resources and external stakeholders for success.
• Influence internal and external functions without direct authority.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Quality Engineering, Quality Management, or a related field (preferred).
• Minimum of 10 years of Quality Systems experience.
• High level of interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills; ability to interact with all organizational levels.
• Strong analytical ability.
• Experience in RESS Assembly Systems (preferred).
• Deep understanding of Quality functions.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Candidates requiring sponsorship now or in the future should not apply. This role is onsite, requiring full-time presence at a specific location, with less than 25% travel. Relocation benefits may be available.

Benefits

From day one, GM supports employee well-being at work and home. Benefits include comprehensive Total Rewards resources to support personal and professional growth.