Manufacturing Engineer: Industrial & Process Optimization

General Motors Africa & Middle East; Burton (MI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer – Industrial and Process Engineering to improve safety, efficiency, capacity, and scalability at the Davison Road Processing Center in Burton, MI. You will design workstations, conduct time studies, and lead cross-functional improvements.

This role requires strong technical depth, independent judgment, and collaboration with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, IT, and suppliers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Engineering, or a related engineering discipline preferred.
• Five or more years of experience in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, warehouse engineering, logistics engineering, or a closely related operational environment.
• Demonstrated experience with work measurement, time studies, standard-time development, labor planning, process balancing, or capacity analysis.
• Demonstrated experience designing or improving workstations, layouts, material flow, or standardized work.
• Experience developing and maintaining job instructions, standardized operating methods, or equivalent process documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, evaluate, and improve workstations, processes, layouts, and material-flow solutions for processing-center operations.
• Conduct STDS time studies, work measurement, method studies, and work-combination analyses to establish labor and capacity requirements.
• Develop labor plans, staffing models, process-balance recommendations, capacity analyses, and throughput-improvement plans.
• Create, update, and validate JES, SOS, and related standardized-work documentation.
• Lead structured problem solving and continuous-improvement activities using data, root-cause analysis, and Lean principles.
• Translate business needs into project charters, scope boundaries, requirements, risks, and success measures.

Skills

Time studies

Labor planning

Work measurement

Process balancing

Standardized work

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial/Manufacturing/Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

STDS

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Manufacturing Engineer – Industrial and Process Engineering to improve safety, efficiency, capacity, and scalability at the Davison Road Processing Center in Burton, MI. You will design workstations, conduct time studies, and lead cross-functional improvements.

This role requires strong technical depth, independent judgment, and collaboration with Operations, Quality, Maintenance, IT, and suppliers.