Job Description

The Team:

Our Engine & Transmission Controls (ETC) team within GM’s Vehicle Software and Electronics Engineering organization is responsible for developing, deploying, and releasing control software and calibrations that control our industry leading propulsion systems. Be it internal combustion engines, hybridized drive units or transmissions, the exciting challenge of inventing new methods to control the world’s best propulsion systems is never ending.

The Role:

We currently have an opportunity to be an Engineering Group Manager leading a team of engineers responsible to execute a specific area of embedded Transmission system calibration and validation. This team works cross functionally with product, systems, and program teams to ensure all pieces come together to successfully release quality products on time to support our revenue generating truck, car and SUV portfolio and paving the way for our future.

In this people leader role, as well as having responsibilities for specific areas of technology, you will help develop and lead strategic action plans to support business goals for our inclusive future as we reinvent ourselves from auto manufacturer to a tech company! The heart of this position is to embrace agile practices that will enable you to grow your team's capability for the future with a focus on speed, quality and safety. You will be working to empower your team to innovate and grow technology while ensuring you execute your core business deliverables on time with quality..

Are you ready to identify and lead staffing initiatives for a work team, conduct regularly scheduled group meetings, communicate GM policies and procedures, leadership and safety messages, and craft specific to function communication on vision and strategy?Are you in?

What You'll Do (Responsibilities):

• Enable self-organizing, self-managing teams to deliver product on-time with quality executions in an agile environment.
• Help remove impediments and foster an environment for high-performing team dynamics, continuous flow, and relentless improvement.
• Embrace agile principles and practices, identifying and eliminating impediments, and facilitating flow.
• Mentor, coach, and develop employees and their careers.
• Establish and monitor budget for responsible activities.
• Execute resource planning for required activities.
• Model and foster GM's Core Values and Winning Behaviors.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering to include Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or Mathematics.
• 7+ years of engineering experience related to embedded control systems, calibration, related hardware, and/or safety critical system development.
• Demonstrated results in successful project execution.
• Excellent multi-functional communication and leadership skills - able to get multiple teams moving in the same direction.
• Demonstrated ability to deal with ambiguity while driving timely decision making.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

• Masters degree in Engineering and/or Master of Business Administration.
• Leadership experience of teams of engineers responsible for calibrating, developing or testing embedded control systems or related hardware.
• Demonstrated ability to:Achieve results through effective teamwork.
• Lead numerous projects with different focal areas to successful completion.
• Lead and measure work through metrics, data, and results.
• Prior experience with Transmission Control Systems.
• Working knowledge of embedded controls development tool set – (e.g. IBM Rational Tool Suite, Git ecosystem, Mat Lab-Simulink, ETAS INCA).
• “Scaled Agilist” certification in the Scaled Agile Framework®.

Company Vehicle:

Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate.

Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

The selected candidate will be required to travel Total Rewards resources.

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