Corvette Factory Announces New Assembly Plant Manager.

General Motors today announced that Paul Graham, currently assistant plant manager of its Fairfax Assembly plant, is appointed plant manager of its Bowling Green facility, effective Jan. 1, 2008. Wilmer Cooksey, the current plant manager at Bowling Green, will retire, effective March, 1, 2008.

Graham began his GM career in 1980 as a college student intern at GM Truck and Bus in Flint, Mich. In 1986, he became an associate manufacturing engineer at the plant, then moved on to become a supervisor of production in 1987 at the GM Ft. Wayne Assembly plant in Indiana. Graham held several positions at the facility before being promoted to senior manufacturing project engineer in GM’s Truck and Bus Division in Pontiac, Mich. in 1989. In 1992, Graham moved on to GM Baltimore Assembly in Maryland to assume an assistant superintendent of Maintenance position, and over the years held positions of increasing responsibility at the plant before returning to GM Ft. Wayne Assembly to an area manager of the Body Shop position in 1995. In 1997, Graham expatriated to Guanajuato, Mexico to assume a platform program manager position with GM of Mexico. In 2000, he returned to the United States and was appointed assistant plant manager of the GM Shreveport Assembly plant in Louisiana. Graham was appointed assistant plant manager of the GM Oklahoma City facility in 2005. He was appointed to his current position in 2006. Graham holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University (formerly GMI) and a master’s degree in Project Management from John Hopkins University.