Warehouse Site Leader - Automotive Parts
General Motors (GM)Job Description The Role Lead a GM's Customer Care and Aftersales parts distribution center supporting dealers and customers with vehicle parts and post-purchase services. As Warehouse Site Leader, you will lead a unionized hourly and salaried workforce and oversee warehouse operations, budgets, maintenance, labor relations, and compliance. You will drive performance across safety, quality, cost, delivery, and employee engagement through standardized work, lean methods, continuous improvement, technology adoption, and change leadership. What You’ll Do Lead site performance across safety, quality, cost, delivery, employee engagement, earnings before interest and taxes, and revenue targets. Direct warehouse activities, including receiving, storage, inventory control, picking, packing, shipping, transportation coordination, and customer delivery. Manage a unionized workforce of hourly and salaried employees, including staffing, workforce planning, timekeeping, overtime, succession planning, talent development, and performance management. Establish goals, operating rhythms, performance standards, and action plans aligned with CCA and GM business objectives. Manage the annual operating budget, capital budgets, preventive maintenance, and other resources required to deliver financial targets. Improve warehouse productivity, labor utilization, inventory accuracy, order fulfillment, delivery performance, quality, and operating costs. Champion technology adoption and innovation, including Infor and warehouse management systems. Use data and key performance indicators to identify trends, prioritize resources, and sustain operational improvements. Lead responses to operational disruptions, customer-impacting issues, safety concerns, quality issues, and material-flow constraints. Ensure compliance with GM policies, safety requirements, environmental standards, collective bargaining agreements, and applicable laws while representing the facility in CCA leadership reviews and supporting GM dealers, ACDelco customers, accessory customers, and other CCA stakeholders. Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications) Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience. 8+ years of warehouse operations, distribution, logistics, manufacturing, or a related high-volume operating environment. Strong knowledge of warehouse, distribution, inventory, material-flow, and transportation processes. Experience leading salaried and hourly teams, including workforces represented by a labor union. Demonstrated success developing leaders and building high-performing teams. Strong background in warehouse management systems (Infor WMS preferred) and automation. Experience managing budgets, staffing, operational metrics, and continuous-improvement initiatives. Ability to work on-site in a shift-oriented operation and respond to business needs outside standard working hours What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications) Strong analytical, decision-making, communication, and problem-solving skills. Proven ability to deliver results across safety, quality, delivery, cost, and employee engagement. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to influence, motivate, and resolve conflict. Thrive in fast-paced, high-tech environments and love solving complex operational challenges. Are passionate about technology and innovation in warehouse operations. Have the agility and resilience to lead through change and uncertainty. Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate. The salary range for this role is $119,500-$186,900. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factor…