Description
Position Summary
The Maintenance Continuous Improvement Lead is responsible for improving maintenance performance, equipment reliability, and process discipline within a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This role connects shop-floor maintenance execution with data, systems, and continuous improvement practices to drive safer operations, lower downtime, better PM effectiveness, and stronger accountability across the organization.
This position serves as a key resource for maintenance teams, leaders, and support functions by combining technical troubleshooting, maintenance systems knowledge, reporting capability, and operational follow-through. The role requires strong working knowledge of Maximo/CMMS, maintenance workflows, plant reporting tools, and continuous improvement methods.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead continuous improvement efforts focused on maintenance effectiveness, downtime reduction, PM optimization, and process stability.
- Use plant data, maintenance system information, and operating trends to identify losses, prioritize actions, and support performance improvement plans.
- Act as a subject matter resource for Maximo/CMMS processes, COGNOs reporting, and will act as the SME of the TPM section of the GMS CI Team.
- Support plant-wide troubleshooting and technical problem-solving by connecting equipment issues, historical information, and plant follow-up into practical corrective actions.
- Participate in plant-wide OEE/JPH meetings, maintaining heavy involvement with Maintenance projects and initiatives throughout the plant.
- Develop, improve, and reinforce maintenance expectations, work instructions, and process compliance across shifts and teams.
- Coach and support leaders and skilled trades on accountability, documentation, and execution of maintenance standards.
- Partner with operations, quality, engineering, and maintenance leadership to resolve chronic issues and improve plant performance.
- Help evaluate and implement tools, systems, and technologies that improve troubleshooting, training, simulation, reporting, automation, or AI-enabled workflows.
- Envision, build, and implement practical solutions with minimal guidance or intervention to address plant, maintenance, and reporting needs.
Required Skills and Experience- 5+ years experience in manufacturing maintenance, reliability, or continuous improvement.
- Advanced knowledge of Maximo or similar CMMS platforms, maintenance planning/control, and work process discipline.
- Experience with AI implementation and integration in support of maintenance, reporting, troubleshooting, or process improvement workflows.
- Strong experience with Cognos reporting, Power BI, and SQL coding to build, automate, and improve reporting and decision-support tools.
- Ability to analyze data and translate findings into clear actions that improve uptime, flow, and accountability.
- Ability to envision, develop, and implement effective solutions with little guidance or intervention.
- Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a production environment with competing priorities.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to train, align, and influence both leadership and shop-floor teams.
- Practical problem-solving mindset with the ability to move between technical detail and high-level operational improvement.
Preferred Qualifications- Experience in die cast, high-volume manufacturing, or other equipment-intensive operations.
- Experience with downtime/OEE analysis, layered audits, standardized work, and plant performance systems.
- Familiarity with digital tools that support troubleshooting, technical documentation, simulation, automation, reporting, or AI-enabled workflows.
GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)
This role is categorized as onsite. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location on a full-time basis.
This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
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