General Manager, Battery & Motor Production

The role: 

Archer is seeking a General Manager for Battery & Motor responsible for leading the overall manufacturing process to include budget ownership and responsibility. You will have direct responsibility over all aspects of battery & motor production to include manufacturing, industrialization, automation, technical operations (ME/IE/PE/TE), and logistics. You will be responsible for engaging cross functional resources to ensure we keep our employees safe, build quality into our product, deliver on time, and aggressively manage cost through build optimization and efficiency improvements. This role requires significant cross functional collaboration with Sales Inventory, Operations and Planning (SIOP), Material Management, Quality, Human Resources, Program Management, Environmental/Health/Safety, Finance, and Operational Excellence teams.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Leading a direct and indirect, cross-functional team of leaders who provide leadership and direction to their team(s) with an emphasis on team building through effective connections and communications
• Responsible and accountable for the department budget; establish operational and financial objectives for business
• Manage all manufacturing operations activities to ensure completion of customer and business requirements
• Develop & support long- and short-term planning, policies, programs and objectives
• Implement a standardized Manufacturing Operating System to assess Battery & Motor KPI’s and coordinate actions to ensure safety, schedule, cost, and quality goals are achieved
• Manage battery & motor processes to assess monthly financial performance and establish accurate forecasts for manufacturing profit, inventory, cost of poor quality, capital and other financial metrics
• Lead efforts to implement lean management systems, lean tools and high performance work teams and standardize key processes including materials management and quality systems
• Execute an operational strategy that exceeds industry leading performance in cost
• Lead projects and initiatives in support of the manufacturing operations and group strategies
• Build organization capability through assessment and management of key leadership positions, coaching of manufacturing leaders and strategic development actions
• Hires, trains, develops and evaluates staff – taking corrective action as necessary and in a timely manager in accordance with company policy
• Ensures compliance with current federal, state, and local regulations – consulting with the Human Resources Department as appropriate
• Manage resource investment in organization development, capital equipment and new technology to assure organizational, manufacturing, product and market leadership; and
• Establish and lead an effective capital management process

Essential Qualifications:

• Previous plant management training & experience
• Minimum of 10 years of high volume manufacturing operations within the automotive sector 
• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading and managing a significant business area of a large automotive manufacturer or the entire operation of a smaller manufacturer
• Experience leading battery or motor manufacturing
• 6+ years of demonstrated successful people management experience – including experience managing organizations larger than 200 team members
• Strong operational and financial acumen, executive presence, and the ability to lead multiple locations
• Hands-on experience developing and managing budgets with responsibility for cost performance
• Candidate must be authorized to work in the US on a continuous basis without company sponsorship
• Excellent oral and writing communication skills
• Strong leadership skills along with proven capability to deliver results and build high performance teams
• Background in driving continuous improvement activities to improve manufacturing performance including knowledge of lean management systems and lean tools
• Broad knowledge of key operational systems including sales inventory operations planning (SIOP), materials planning systems (MRP), enterprise resource planning (ERP), manufacturing execution system (MES), and quality systems with diverse experience managing varied and complex manufacturing processes
• Strong bias for action, can communicate vision clearly, and be a driver of change
• Agile leadership style; able to adjust one’s approach to fit the situation as a driver, coach, mentor, or teacher

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of ISO9001/AS9100 requirements