Who We Are:

Established in 1986, Ground Effects has grown to become a multi-faceted supplier of interior and exterior accessory components for the automotive industry. We are headquartered in Windsor, Ontario.

At GFX, we have created a culture that values long-standing employees and excellence in everything we do. Employees can expect to be a part of a great team that values safety and quality.

Who You Are:

Ground Effects is currently searching for a Technical Project Manager to support our team in Windsor, Ontario. The position of Technical Project Manager consists of the planning, coordination, and end-to-end delivery of Ground Effects Ltd.’s portfolio of IT and business-systems projects. Operating with significant autonomy in a matrixed environment, this role partners with executive sponsors and functional owners across Finance, Operations, Human Resources, Quality, and IT to define scope, manage risk and dependencies, and drive initiatives to on-time, on-budget completion. The incumbent sets delivery standards and governance, manages software vendors and implementation partners, and translates business needs into actionable project scope — ensuring solutions are adopted and deliver measurable value to the organization.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Project Budget & Cost Control- Own project budgets and forecasts; track actuals against plan, partner with Finance on capitalization versus expense treatment, and report cost-to-complete with clear variance drivers.
• Resource & Capacity Planning- Plan and coordinate internal and partner resources across concurrent projects; identify capacity constraints and conflicts early and work with functional leaders to rebalance assignments and protect committed timelines.
• Vendor & Contract Governance- Manage software and services vendors against statements of work and service levels; coordinate renewals, change orders, and issue escalation, and maintain a single source of truth for project commitments and deliverables.
• Education Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field. PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification preferred; MBA an asset.
• Experience 5+ years leading technical, IT, or business-systems projects, including at least one full-lifecycle enterprise system implementation (e.g., ERP, HRIS, or quality/manufacturing systems). Direct experience with one or more of our core platforms is strongly preferred: Epicor (ERP), Dayforce (HCM/payroll), Microsoft 365, and IATF 16949 quality-system requirements. Demonstrated, proven experience leading change management and post-go-live/hyper care management is required. Manufacturing or multi-site environment preferred.
• Job Specific Skills Proven delivery of complex technical projects on time and on budget; strong command of project management methodologies (waterfall, agile, and hybrid) and the systems implementation lifecycle; excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills; strong analytical and problem-solving ability; vendor, SOW, and RFQ/RFP management; familiarity with enterprise platforms and integrations (ERP, HRIS, BI/reporting, and workflow/automation, including cloud/SaaS); proven change management and post-go-live (hyper care) management capability, with a track record of driving user adoption and embedding sustainable process improvements; working knowledge of data governance and security compliance, with the ability to embed these controls through system transitions; comfortable leading cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with minimal direction.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

•  Lead the end-to-end delivery of concurrent IT and business-systems projects from initiation through close, defining scope, objectives, deliverables, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with executive sponsors, functional owners, and stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestone schedules, resource plans, and budgets; sequence interdependent workstreams and actively manage the critical path across the project portfolio.
• Drive coordination across cross-functional delivery teams spanning Finance, Operations, Human Resources, Quality, Plant Leadership, and IT — along with external implementation partners and vendors — to keep workstreams aligned, sequenced, and unblocked.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and provide clear, regular status reporting to executives and steering committees; surface decisions and trade-offs with structured options and recommendations.
• Facilitate effective communication across all levels of the organization, translating technical detail into business language and business requirements into actionable delivery scope.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests; maintain RAID logs and drive timely resolution to protect schedule, budget, scope, and quality.
• Manage interdependencies across concurrent initiatives — including shared master data, system integrations, and constrained resources — so that one project’s decisions do not destabilize another.
• Apply fit-for-purpose delivery methodology — waterfall, agile, or hybrid — selecting the right cadence for each initiative; lead planning sessions, working sessions, and retrospectives, and run agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, stand-ups) where applicable.
• Establish, document, and continuously improve project management standards, templates, and best practices (intake, prioritization, stage gates, change control, and documentation), and drive their adoption across the project portfolio.
• Define and track key metrics, milestones, and success criteria for each project; report progress against baseline on scope, schedule, budget, and quality, and keep delivery on plan.
• Establish benefits and value tracking and lead post-implementation reviews to confirm that delivered solutions achieve the business case, drive adoption, and produce a measurable return on investment
• Lead RFQ/RFP processes and vendor selection for systems and services; develop evaluation criteria, coordinate demonstrations and scoring, and support negotiation of statements of work, milestones, and acceptance terms.
• Manage implementation partners and software vendors against contracted scope, deliverables, and timelines; govern change orders, hold partners accountable to commitments, and validate deliverable quality before sign-off.
• Facilitate requirements gathering and process mapping with functional owners; ensure current- and future-state processes, data, and integration needs are documented and signed off before build.
• Coordinate testing cycles (unit, integration, and user acceptance) and cutover/go-live planning, including data migration validation, defect triage, and clear readiness criteria.
• Lead change management and end-user readiness — communications, training, and hyper care — to drive adoption and embed sustainable process improvements following go-live.

Only the selected candidates will receive a response. Thank you for your interest in our organization!

Who We Are:

Established in 1986, Ground Effects has grown to become a multi-faceted supplier of interior and exterior accessory components for the automotive industry. We are headquartered in Windsor, Ontario.

At GFX, we have created a culture that values long-standing employees and excellence in everything we do. Employees can expect to be a part of a great team that values safety and quality.

Who You Are:

Ground Effects is currently searching for a Senior Analyst, Master Data to support our team in Windsor, Ontario. The Senior Analyst, Master Data is the owner of how Ground Effects Ltd.’s operations are represented in its systems — the steward who sets and enforces the guardrails where Engineering, Operations, Finance, Accounting, and Quality meet. Each of these functions creates, consumes, and depends on shared master data, and their needs often pull in different directions; this role owns the standards, rules, and controls that reconcile them, so that one function’s data does not break another’s. Rather than personally performing every data task, the incumbent governs the master data structures, configurations, and rules that live in Epicor, Dayforce, and the connected business-systems stack — translating how parts are made, costed, bought, sold, and staffed across Ground Effects’ plant sites into a single, trusted source the whole organization can rely on. Critically, this is a stewardship role built on prevention: the owner designs and maintains the controls that keep bad data out of Ground Effects’ systems in the first place — validation rules, required fields, approval workflows, and process guardrails that catch problems at the point of entry rather than after they have polluted reporting and transactions downstream. The best outcome of this role is the error that never happens.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field. Relevant certifications an asset (e.g., business analysis (CBAP), data management (CDMP), or ERP/Epicor-Kinetic credentials) 
• 3+ years in a master data, business systems analyst, ERP, or data governance role, including hands-on work mapping business processes to system structures. Direct experience with one or more of our core platforms is strongly preferred: Epicor (ERP) and Dayforce (HCM/payroll); Microsoft 365 and BI/FP&A tooling (Power BI, DataRails) an asset. Demonstrated experience designing or enforcing data quality controls/validation is required. ERP implementation or data-migration experience and a manufacturing or multi-site environment are strongly preferred.
• The following working conditions are present or expected on a daily basis:
  •    Typical office environment.  
  •    Periodic presence on the plant floor and across company sites for data gathering, process mapping, and validation.
  •    Limited exposure to weather elements, chemicals, robotics, industrial and automotive vehicles including electrical components.
  •    Ability to lift up to 50lbs with limited accommodations and flexible working positions.
  •    Occasional travel between company sites and to vendor or implementation-partner locations.
  •    Must comply with all company policies, procedures, and work instructions.
  •    Personal protective equipment must be worn at all times while on the production floor.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the create, change, and deactivate lifecycle for master data across Epicor and connected business systems — including item/part, BOM and routing, customer, supplier, pricing, and GL/chart-of-accounts records — across all Ground Effects plant sites.
• Maintain the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of master data, including site-specific attributes (costing, pricing, sourcing), so that downstream transactions, costing, and reporting can be trusted.
• Act as the gatekeeper for data entering Ground Effects systems — design, configure, and maintain the validation rules, required-field enforcement, naming and formatting standards, and approval workflows that stop bad data at the point of entry.
• Build and maintain system-level controls (e.g., Epicor BPMs/data directives, Dayforce form and assignment rules) that prevent incomplete or non-conforming records from being saved.
• Treat recurring data issues as process defects — investigate root cause and engineer the control that closes the gap, rather than repeatedly cleaning up the same errors after the fact.
• Partner with Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, and HR to understand how work actually gets done, then translate those processes into the master data structures and system configuration that represent them accurately.
• Serve as the interpreter between business users who own the process and technical/vendor teams who configure the system — converting operational requirements into actionable system design, and system constraints into plain business language.
• Configure and support Epicor and connected business systems in the master data and process domains — part/BOM setup, costing methods, pricing, customer/supplier configuration, and the workflows and rules that govern them.
• Troubleshoot data and configuration issues raised by business users; analyze root cause across both process and system, and implement durable fixes rather than one-off corrections.
• Serve as a key contributor to the Epicor T10 to Kinetic migration — leading master data cleanup, mapping, deduplication, conversion-template preparation, load validation, and reconciliation between legacy and target environments.
• Configure the data standards and preventive controls in the new environment so that data quality is built in at go-live rather than remediated afterward.
• Maintain HRIS master data structures in Dayforce — job and position records, organizational and cost-center alignment, and GL coding rules — ensuring they reflect Ground Effects’ multi-site org and feed finance and reporting accurately.
• Partner with HR and Finance to enforce data standards and overrides (e.g., corporate cost-center employees located at plant sites) so that headcount, labor, and cost data are correct at the source.
• Safeguard master data consistency across integrated systems — EDI (TrueCommerce), FP&A and BI tools (DataRails, Power BI), and Dayforce-to-Epicor flows — so the source stays clean and everything downstream stays trustworthy.
• Validate that data feeding KPI, financial, and operational reporting is mapped correctly and reconciles to the system of record; investigate and resolve discrepancies.
• Support integration design and field mapping with technical teams and vendors, ensuring master data definitions remain aligned end to end.
• Establish, document, and continuously improve master data standards, naming conventions, governance policies, ownership matrices, and change-control procedures across all data domains.
• Maintain clear, current documentation of data structures, configurations, controls, and processes so that knowledge is not locked in one person’s head.
• Define and report data quality metrics (completeness, accuracy, duplication, staleness) and drive remediation and prevention against them.
• Train and support end users and data approvers on master data standards, system processes, and the controls that protect data quality — and on why those controls exist.
• Partner across Finance, IT, Operations, and HR to drive adoption of governance standards and embed sustainable, well-documented data practices.
• Act as a subject-matter resource on master data and business-process questions, supporting month-end close, costing, and reporting by ensuring the underlying data holds up.

Only the selected candidates will receive a response. Thank you for your interest in our organization!

Who We Are:

Established in 1986, Ground Effects has grown to become a multi-faceted supplier of interior and exterior accessory components for the automotive industry. We are headquartered in Windsor, Ontario.

At GFX, we have created a culture that values long-standing employees and excellence in everything we do. Employees can expect to be a part of a great team that values safety and quality.

Who You Are:

Ground Effects is currently searching for a Quality Manager to support our team in Windsor, Ontario. The Quality Manager oversees the quality processes at the manufacturing plants to ensure a quality product to our customers. To ensure solid APQP/PPAP/launch processes and activities are conducted. To oversee and ensure processes and procedures are implemented and enforced at the responsible plants.

REQUIREMENTS:

Education    

• Minimum Required: Grade 12 completion or equivalent
• Preferred: College or University Graduate

Experience    

Minimum Required:

• Previous experience as Quality Engineer
• Previous experience managing/supervising people

Preferred:   

• 3-5 years as QE
• Quality Background in a painting &/or assembly environment as an OEM supplier
• IATF internal or Lead Auditor certification

Job Specific Skills    

Minimum Required:    

• Must have extensive knowledge of IATF- 16949 requirements including experience with documentation and implementation.
• Must have knowledge of and experience with all core tools (APQP process including PPAP, FMEA and Control Plan, MSA, SPC)
• Must have blueprint reading skills
• Must have strong computer skills.
• Must be knowledgeable in customer specific requirements.
• Must have experience in dealing with customers and suppliers in matters relating to product quality
• Must be team oriented.
• Must have and maintain an appropriate and valid Ontario Driver's license.
• Must have and maintain legal access/entry to the United States.

The following working conditions are present or expected on a daily basis:

• Travel may be required
• Ability to conduct presentations.

Normal office environment; manual dexterity required to use desktop computer and peripherals

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supporting Quality Engineers at all GFX Manufacturing plants. 
  • Ensure quality processes and procedures are implemented and enforced.
  • Aid in the training and development of plant Quality Engineers on all aspects of their jobs
  • Provide training and guidance on quality processes and procedures.
  • Ensure solid problem solving and actions to prevent reoccurrences at the plants
  • Ensure that plant measurables are accurate and available
  • Ensure customer expectations are being met (voice of customer) in all areas
• Supporting APQP and Launch activities at all GFX Manufacturing plants.
  • • Ensure that compliant PPAP activities are conducted at all plants.
    • Meet customer PPAP timing expectations
    • Ensure all launch readiness activities are conducted and complete
    • Ensure all customer expectations are met
• Supporting customer and continuous improvement activities at all plants
  • • Ensure procedures and work instructions are sufficient, suggesting changes as required to improve plant quality
    • Understand customer expectations and how to implement changes
    • Audit processes to ensure compliance and look for opportunities for improvements
    • Analyze system data to identify trends and present areas of improvement
• Work in compliance with any government and site policies.
  • • Report all workplace incidents/accidents to your manager.
    • Use and wear protective clothing, equipment or devices issued for protection and ensure that they are properly maintained.  Set example for plants
    • Notify Supervision if any protective material, equipment, or device is missing or not functioning properly.
  Report unsafe acts or unsafe conditions

Only the selected candidates will receive a response. Thank you for your interest in our organization!