GM Announces Baltimore Transmission Plant Manager Appointment

PONTIAC, Mich. - General Motors manufacturing leadership and GM Powertrain Manufacturing Manager Ken Dosenbach announced today the appointment of William A. Kulhanek as plant manager for GM's Baltimore transmission operations.

Kulhanek is currently assistant plant manager at the Parma metal fabricating plant. The move is effective April 1 to replace Rick McKinnon, who retired Feb. 1, 2004. Kulhanek will report to Dosenbach. "Bill brings some great expertise and qualifications to GM Powertrain, and we welcome him to the transmission sector," said Dosenbach.

His GM career began in 1981 as a cooperative student at the former Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac Group in Warren, Mich. In 1985, he became a manufacturing engineer at GM's Wilmington, Del., plant. In the manufacturing organization, he held a number of supervisor and leadership positions, including manufacturing engineering director and plant maintenance superintendent and later as assistant production superintendent at Lordstown assembly in Lordstown, Ohio.

Bill holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Detroit Mercy and a master's of business administration from Wilmington College-Delaware. He also completed the executive management program at Pennsylvania State University.