Engineering Group Manager - generalmotors

Polluxa, Inc.; Warren (MI); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a first-level Engineering Group Manager (EGM) within Energy Conversion Systems (ECS) to lead a team responsible for hardware design and release, including BDUs, junction boxes, high voltage fuse boxes, headers, and sensing hardware for electrified vehicles.

The EGM will translate strategy into a technology roadmap, balance performance, quality, timing, and cost, and manage risk in the evolving EV landscape.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to ensure excellence in all aspects of GM and supplier engineering
• Functional, performance and safety requirements are met, Quality, Reliability, Durability and Serviceability targets are met
• Collaborate with Advanced Engineering and Global Purchasing & Supply Chain to establish strategic direction and execution priorities
• Ensure engineering execution deliverables occur on time with quality
• Develop industry leading hardware execution efficiency
• Recruit, attract and hire industry leading talent
• Train, develop, coach, and mentor employees
• Provide clear line of sight from organizational objectives to individual contributions; direct and prioritize work accordingly
• Create an environment that fosters a positive and inclusive culture and encourages individuals to achieve their peak performance and engagement

Job description

Job Description

The Role:

Energy Conversion Systems (ECS) at General Motors is a fast-paced team that is working on developing and executing propulsion technology. This role is within the Energy Conversion Sensing & Distribution Hardware organization, specifically for High Voltage Distribution and Sensing. We are creating leading-edge propulsion hardware (across engine, transmission, drive unit and RESS components) that provide industry leading performance and customer value for current and future GM Vehicles.

We are seeking highly motivated, forward thinking, innovative, high performing people leaders with a balance of strategic and tactical skills to join this dynamic environment and help move us forward to achieve GM’s Zero, Zero, Zero vision. This position is for a first-level people leader EGM (Engineering Group Manager) and you would lead a team responsible for hardware design and release within ECS.

This EGM will lead the team that releases GM’s high voltage distribution and sensing hardware. This includes Battery Disconnect Units (BDUs), junction boxes, high voltage fuse boxes, high voltage headers, and current/voltage sensing hardware for our electrified portfolio. Day to day, the role translates company and propulsion strategy into a clear technology roadmap that ensures robust system and component designs and drives issue resolution on current and future programs with urgency and discipline. The EGM partners closely with the propulsion program teams, safety, manufacturing, purchasing and key suppliers to balance performance, quality, timing, and cost, while proactively managing risk in a fast-evolving EV landscape. A critical part of the role is building and developing a high performing organization by leading and coaching technical specialists and design release engineers, setting expectations for execution excellence, and fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities):

• Provide leadership to ensure excellence in all aspects of GM and supplier engineering
• Functional, performance and safety requirements are met, Quality, Reliability, Durability and Serviceability targets are met
• Collaborate with Advanced Engineering and Global Purchasing & Supply Chain to establish strategic direction and execution priorities
• Ensure engineering execution deliverables occur on time with quality
• Develop industry leading hardware execution efficiency
• Recruit, attract and hire industry leading talent
• Train, develop, coach, and mentor employees
• Provide clear line of sight from organizational objectives to individual contributions; direct and prioritize work accordingly
• Create an environment that fosters a positive and inclusive culture and encourages individuals to achieve their peak performance and engagement