Beira (Beta) Michelle Jones, MBA

The RME Staffing Strategy team drives network-wide staffing and hiring strategies that enable successful launches, retrofits, and sustained operational excellence across NA-RME. As Senior Manager, I lead a team responsible for the strategic oversight of launch and operational staffing ensuring alignment to Clear-to-Hire (CTH) and Critical Hire Date (CHD) milestones that support business readiness. My role focuses on developing and executing strategies that proactively identify, eliminate, or mitigate risks impacting staffing success across the NA-RME network. Key Focus Areas: • Lead and develop a team delivering end-to-end staffing strategy for RME launches and operational sites. • Drive proactive risk identification and mitigation strategies to ensure network staffing continuity. • Oversee complex site launch staffing readiness and provide leadership escalation support. • Partner with RME Directors, Site Leaders, Early Life Management (ELM), Capacity, PxT, and Talent Acquisition to align workforce plans with business needs. • Design and implement data-driven staffing strategies to support RME’s long-term talent pipeline and capacity planning.

Reliability Maintenance & Engineering (NACF) RMEdev - People: Staffing/Hiring, Away Teams, Embark Adoption, etc.

2022 Short Term Assignment turned permanent role in March 2023 with establishment of RMEdev team led by Director Bill Hicks. My role and leadership focus will be on GEN11 ARS Launch sites with initiatives and support for RME Staffing/Hiring and Away Teams working directly with RME TA leadership both 3P and Blue Badge sites and RME GEN11 ARS leadership to meet critical hire dates to meet hiring targets at 100%. Also, identifying gaps in RME sites launch team with hiring and training not completed by target’s prior to launch.

Temporary Special Assignment - RME Talent Ambassador within the Talent & Acquisition (TA) division. Tasked with conducting initial interview screening to final interview stages. Helping prepare candidates by leading interview informational sessions. Duties also include: - Project for balancing loops & DE&I goal attainment - Sourcing for interviewers - Participating in interviews - Scheduling interview loops - Reducing time to schedule - Ensuring interviewer support - Meeting specified goals from leadership - Improving the candidate experience - Career growth & Development

Launch Shift Manager - Assembly Kokomo Engine Plant (KEP) GMET4 - 2.0-liter Global Medium Engine Inline Four-Cylinder Turbo Expected launch October 2021

Plan, organize, direct and run optimum daily operations on 2nd Shift at FCA's Tipton Transmission Plant. Responsible for ensuring schedule attainment while minimizing unnecessary costs, maintaining current quality standards while committed to the plants safety procedures. Effectively allocating plant resources and fully utilizing plant assets to produce optimal results. Leading plant teams to implement strategies in alignment with strategic initiatives and ensuring I provide a clear sense of focus and direction. Closely monitoring all 9-Speed Transmission operations and triggering corrective actions when necessary. Collect and analyze data to identify areas of waste and overspending. Develop systems and processes that track and optimize productivity of all operations.

Business Unit Leader (BUL) SI-EVT (Single Input - Electric Vehicle Transmission) Assembly and Expansion - Tipton Transmission Plant (TTP). Responsible for the daily execution of activities for Assembly SI-EVT and incoming expansion. •Track departmental KPI's and ensure team is engaged in the process, understands the goals and objectives, and participate in all KAI's (Key Action Items) that drive overall success of the area. Tracking all suggestions for each crew, Safety talks/SMAT completion, Route cards/LPAs, Kaizen's, etc. •Develop, update, and report out on deliverables. •Coordinate and lead communication with support teams to resolve major issues •Lead issue resolution meetings and escalate priority concerns to correct support team or individual •Ensure WCM principles are adhered to during production and expansion process •Identification of critical processes and work with support teams to develop solutions •Responsible for working with maintenance team on implementation of preventive and predictive quality maintenance program. •Assist Unit Leader with the implementation of WCM methodology. •Analyze process parameters influencing product variation and assist production team and engineers with the identification of root cause and coordination of process improvement/savings actions.

Launch Business Unit Leader (BUL) & WPI Specialist for SI-EVT (Single Input - Electric Vehicle Transmission) Rotating/Prismatic - Kokomo Transmission Plant (KTP). Responsible for the daily execution activities of the WPI process in the launch process of rotating and prismatic SI-EVT. This includes overall launch Master Planning, KPI tracking, coordination of workshops/training, managing issues and escalation, and developing recovery plans. Ensuring WCM principles are utilized within the launch process. •Track Launch KPI's and report out at the executive level and ensure team is engaged in the process, understands the goals and objectives, and participate in all KAI's (Key Action Items) that drive overall success of the area. •Develop, update, and report out on Master Plan deliverables •Coordinate and lead workshops to resolve major issues •Lead issue resolution meetings with stakeholders and escalate priority concerns •Ensure WCM principles are adhered to during WPI process •Identification of critical processes and develop solutions •Administration of WCM/WPI/PDCA Checklist to ensure launch readiness •Responsible for attaining pilot/launch production including the implementation of preventive and predictive quality maintenance program. •Assist Unit Leader with the implementation of WCM methodology. •Analyze process parameters influencing product variation and assist production team and engineers with the identification of root cause and coordination of process improvement/savings actions.

Kokomo Transmission Plant (KTP) - Business Unit Leader (Area Manager) in 8-Speed 845RE Assembly Departments 7700 & 7600. Over 1 Million 8-Speed (845RE) Transmissions built as of March 2015 and going strong. • Coach and assists department Unit Leaders with the implementation of WCM (World Class Manufacturing) methodology. • Prepare monthly Financial Cost Deployment reports to ensure losses are identified and can be targeted as items of interest. Those targeted losses can be then tackled thought maintenance and/or focused improvements to ensure losses are not repeated consecutively from month to month. • Oversee KPI (Key Performance Indicators) measurement boards in my area of responsibility, ensuring work teams are engaged in the process, understand the goals and objectives, and participate in all KAI (Key Action Items) that drive overall success of the area. • Provide direction to assist support group utilizing data measurement/stratification to drive key activities/projects to reduce the most significant areas of waste. • Responsible for attaining daily production and assembly output including the implementation of preventive and predictive quality maintenance programs in my area of responsibility. • Analyze process parameters influencing product variation and assist production teams and engineers with the identification of root cause and coordination of process improvement/savings actions.

Coach and assist Team Leaders and Team Members with the implementation of WCM (World Class Manufacturing) methodology within the plant. Oversee KPI (Key Performance Indicators) measurement boards in their area of responsibility, ensuring work teams are engaged in the process, understand the goals and objectives, and participate in all KAI (Key Action Items) that drive overall success of the area. Provide direction to assist support group utilizing data measurement/stratification to drive key activities/projects to reduce the most significatn areas of waste. Responsible for attaining daily production/assembly output including the implementation of preventive and predictive quality maintenance programs in the area(s) of responsibility. Analyze process parameters influencing product variation and assist production teams and engineers with the identification of root cause and coordination of process improvement/savings actions.

- Apprenticeship at GM (General Motors - Kokomo, IN) - Received Machinery Maintenance Certificate and Associates in Machinery Maintenance. - Tool roomExperience CNC (Mastercam and UniGraphics) Mill (Bridgeport) Lathe (LaBlond) (Hardinge CNC) - Designed, manufactured, and modified parts that solved problems for engineers. - Print Reading

MBA - First Cohort program in collaboration with FCA (Chrysler/Stellantis)