Nissan is making leadership changes at two of its U.S. auto manufacturing plants.
The company named Victor Taylor as VP of its Canton, Mississippi, assembly plant. Taylor formerly served as Nissan’s senior director of manufacturing operations.
Taylor is succeeding David Sliger, who will serve as VP of Nissan’s engine plant in Decherd, Tennessee. Sliger is taking over the role from Jeff Younginer, who will step down from the position and retire after 20 years with the automaker.
The leadership changes will take effect Dec. 1.
“David and Victor are transformative leaders and will be instrumental in helping to ready our workforce and drive key processes as we build factories of the future today,” David Johnson, SVP of manufacturing and supply chain management, Nissan North America, said in a statement.
Taylor and Sliger’s new roles will help drive the automaker’s Ambition 2030, Nissan’s strategy launched in 2021 to electrify 27 of its vehicle models by 2030, Nissan Group of the Americas spokesperson Lloryn Love-Carter told Manufacturing Dive in an email.
The two executives will help ready the Canton and Decherd workforces for greater electrification as well as drive critical processes.
Nissan plans to invest in all of its U.S. manufacturing facilities as part of the electrification push, Love-Carter said.
Last year, the Japan-based automaker announced it was investing $500 million to upgrade the plant to build electrified Infiniti and Nissan models, with production slated to begin in 2025. The funds will also retrain and upskill nearly 2,000 employees.
