Paint Shop Second Shift Supervisor

Paint Shop Supervisor

GM Design Center Fabrication is seeking a Paint Shop Supervisor to lead the day-to-day operations of the Design Center show vehicle and refinish Paint Shop within Design Fabrication Operations (DFO).

The role includes:

• Understanding and consistently administering the GM/UAW National and Local UAW Agreements.
• Developing, coordinating, and tracking the DCF property plan for all major property builds, concept properties, and fabrication requests.
• Ensuring a safe, efficient, and high-quality execution of all show vehicle and refinish paint activities.
• Supervising a medium group of UAW Skilled Trades paint technicians and refinish specialists.
• Overseeing all phases of the paint process, including surface preparation, priming, color application, clear coat, baking, sanding, buffing, polishing, and detailing to achieve world-class show surfaces.
• Being knowledgeable of the GVDP math deliverable requirements and physical model content.
• Ensuring all painted properties and refinish work meet Design Center show-quality standards and program-specific appearance criteria.

Required qualifications include:

• BBA or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of automotive paint/refinish experience.
• Proven experience in the paint and refinish of show vehicles, concept vehicles, or high-end custom/prototype properties, including complex colors, special effects, and premium clear finishes.
• In-depth knowledge of automotive paint systems and processes, including preparation, masking, color matching, blending, multi-stage systems, clear coats, and polishing.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot paint and appearance issues and adjust processes, techniques, or materials in a fast-changing, deadline-driven environment.
• Excellent technical breadth, organizational, administrative, and leadership skills.
• Expertise in resource and workload planning, tracking, and reconciliation.

Preferred qualifications include:

• BBA.