Senior Manager – Field Installation & System Commissioning, Automotive Paint Systems

Senior Manager – Field Installation & System Commissioning, Automotive Paint Systems

• Posted on September 1, 2026

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Southfield, MI 48033, USA

• On-site
• Site Operations
• Full-Time
• Requisition #: SENIO
  003126

Role Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager responsible for leading the teams that perform field installation, electrical installation, and system commissioning of automotive paint systems. In this leadership role, you will manage field installation, electrical installation, commissioning, start-up, and customer acceptance teams to ensure safe, on-time, and high-quality execution across complex paint shop projects. You will provide direction, staffing oversight, prioritization, escalation support, and customer-facing leadership while coordinating with engineering, project management, suppliers, subcontractors, and customer stakeholders to ensure delivered systems meet technical, schedule, quality, safety, and performance requirements.

• Manage the teams responsible for field installation, electrical installation, mechanical completion, electrical checkout, start-up, commissioning, and customer acceptance activities for automotive paint systems.
• Provide leadership and direction to site managers, installation supervisors, commissioning specialists, controls resources, subcontractors, and other field execution teams supporting paint shop projects.
• Oversee day-to-day site execution for paint shop process systems, including pretreatment and electrocoat systems, spray booths, ovens, air handling systems, exhaust systems, conveyance interfaces, robots, automation, controls, and associated utilities.
• Ensure team members develop and maintain installation and commissioning plans, schedules, manpower forecasts, readiness checklists, risk registers, and punch-list closure processes.
• Set execution priorities and ensure field teams coordinate daily activities with project management, engineering, site supervision, subcontractors, suppliers, and customer representatives.
• Hold field teams accountable for executing work in accordance with drawings, specifications, quality standards, safety requirements, and approved project execution plans.
• Provide escalation support and leadership for troubleshooting field issues during installation, start-up, wet testing, dry runs, production trials, and performance validation.
• Ensure teams drive closure of open issues, nonconformances, and customer punch-list items to support system handover and final acceptance.

• Serve as the senior leader for the field installation and commissioning organization on assigned paint system projects, ensuring team activities align with project scope, budget, schedule, quality, and customer commitments.
• Partner with Project Managers to define team responsibilities, installation strategies, commissioning milestones, escalation paths, staffing plans, and recovery actions when needed.
• Represent the field execution organization with customer leadership, plant operations, maintenance, safety, quality, and launch teams to support successful system integration and production readiness.
• Review project specifications, installation documentation, commissioning procedures, and acceptance criteria to ensure teams are prepared, staffed, and aligned before field execution begins.
• Ensure timely reporting from field teams on site progress, risks, constraints, safety performance, open issues, resource needs, and next-step priorities.

• Lead, mentor, and develop the managers, supervisors, specialists, and subcontractor leaders responsible for field…