Manufacturing Intern: Digital Tools & Google Workspace

General Motors LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors LLC is offering a Manufacturing Excellence IE Intern role aimed at converting Microsoft Office workflows to Google Workspace tools, standardizing templates, and documenting best practices for Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Drive.

The internship focuses on developing a digitized Global Workbook Manpower Tracking tool, involving requirements gathering, testing, and rollout support across GM plants, with hybrid work and summer full-time hours.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or related field.
• Must be graduating between December 2027 and June 2030.
• Able to work full-time, 40 hours per week during the summer months.
• Must be willing to work in a hybrid office environment and travel to GM manufacturing facilities as needed.

Responsibilities

• Inventory and evaluate existing Microsoft-based files, templates, and workflows targeted for conversion to Google Workspace.
• Convert and standardize selected files in Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Drive while maintaining data integrity, usability, and appropriate access controls.
• Identify opportunities to simplify spreadsheets, reduce manual work, improve consistency, and establish repeatable standards for converted files.
• Assist with requirements gathering, process mapping, and user feedback for the digitized Global Workbook Manpower Tracking tool.
• Support the development, configuration, testing, and deployment of the new manpower tracking solution.
• Create test scenarios, validate outputs, document procedures, and help prepare training or communications for end users.
• Collaborate with plant operations, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, IT, and other stakeholders to resolve issues and implement practical improvements.
• Potential project: convert and pilot a prioritized set of legacy workforce-planning files while supporting the launch of the digitized Global Workbook Manpower Tracking tool, measuring adoption and identifying opportunities for further improvement.
• Support data-quality checks, reconciliations, and issue resolution across Global Workbook inputs, workforce-planning data, and reporting outputs.
• Help document current-state processes, standardized work, and plant task inventories; identify opportunities to simplify, automate, consolidate, or eliminate non-value-added work.
• Assist with dashboards and analyses of workforce and productivity measures such as manpower utilization, Hours per Unit, Cost per Unit, percent Value Added, and Minutes per Hour.
• Participate in plant and cross-functional working sessions to gather requirements, capture decisions, track actions, and share lessons learned across sites.
• Support pilot and deployment activities, including user-acceptance testing, access and role documentation, training materials, change communications, and post-launch issue tracking.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering, Information Systems, CS, Data Analytics, or related field

Tools

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Google Slides

Drive

Apps Script

VBA

Python

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

General Motors LLC is offering a Manufacturing Excellence IE Intern role aimed at converting Microsoft Office workflows to Google Workspace tools, standardizing templates, and documenting best practices for Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Drive.

The internship focuses on developing a digitized Global Workbook Manpower Tracking tool, involving requirements gathering, testing, and rollout support across GM plants, with hybrid work and summer full-time hours.